Individual complexity and self-organization in foraging by leaf-cutting ants

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 306-313

  Roces, Flavio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMPLEXITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SELF ORGANIZATION;

ATTA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HYMENOPTERA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; PLANT LEAF; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; PLANT LEAVES; SOCIAL FACILITATION;

EID: 0036018255     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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