Optimality of cell arrangement and rules of thumb of cell initiation in Polistes dominulus: A modeling approach

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 387-395

  Karsai, István ^a   Pénzes, Zsolt ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Construction behavior; Polistes; Social wasps; Stigmergy

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NEST; WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0033922689     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/11.4.387     Document Type: Article

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