The architecture of termite mounds: A result of a trade-off between thermoregulation and gas exchange?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 312-316

  Korb, Judith ^a   Linsenmair, Karl Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gallery forest; Gas exchange; Ivory Coast; Mound architecture; Savanna; Termites; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ISOPTERA; MACROTERMES BELLICOSUS;

EID: 0033046609     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/10.3.312     Document Type: Article

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