Are the selfish herd and the dilution effects important in promoting nest clustering in the hover wasp parischnogaster alternata (stenogastrinae vespidae hymenoptera)?

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 297-305

  Landi, M ^a   Coster Longman, C ^a   Turillazzi, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nest aggregations; Predation; Selfish herd effect; Social wasps; Stenogastrinae

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COLONY; WASP;

ASIA;

HYMENOPTERA; PARISCHNOGASTER ALTERNATA; STENOGASTRINAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0036978546     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2002.9522732     Document Type: Article

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