The role of competition in task switching during colony emigration in the ant Leptothorax albipennis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 715-725

  Sendova Franks, Ana B ^a   Franks, Nigel R ^b   Britton, Nicholas F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY FOUNDING; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; EMIGRATION; LABOR DIVISION;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPTOTHORAX; LEPTOTHORAX ALBIPENNIS;

EID: 0036060155     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1960     Document Type: Article

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