Ecological variation across a transition in colony-founding behavior in the ant Messor pergandei

Oecologia

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 629-635

  Cahan, Sara ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competition; Density; Pleometrosis; Resource availability

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY; EVOLUTION; GROUP BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL VARIATION;

FORMICIDAE; MESSOR; MESSOR PERGANDEI;

EID: 0035654121     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100761     Document Type: Article

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