Warring ants: Lessons from Lanchester's laws of combat?

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 75-78

  Borges, Renee M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY FORMATION; COMPETITION; NOTE; THEORY;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 0036118298     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02703761     Document Type: Note

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4. Lanchester's theory of combat, self-organization, and the evolution of army ants and cellular societies
5. Non-native ants are smaller than related native ants
6. Do Lanchester's laws of combat describe competition in ants?
7. The contents of the Dufour gland of the ant Harpagoxenus sublaevis Nyl. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
8. Chemical communication and "propaganda" in slave-maker ants
9. Ant wars: Combat strategies, territory and nest defence in the leaf-cutting ant Atta laevigata
10. New Lanchester strategy - Sales and marketing strategy for the weak