Spatiotemporal patterns of intraspecific aggression in the invasive Argentine ant

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 697-708

  Suarez, Andrew V ^a,c   Holway, David A ^a   Liang, Dangsheng ^b   Tsutsui, Neil D ^a,c   Case, Ted J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The Clorox Company   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NESTMATE RECOGNITION;

ARGENTINA (FISH); FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LINEPITHEMA; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

EID: 0036433789     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.4011     Document Type: Article

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