The relationship of nest rock dimensions to reproductive success and nest permanence in a high-mountain ant, Proformica longiseta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-117

  Tinaut, Alberto ^a   Fernández Escudero, Ignacio ^a   Ruano, Francisca ^a   Cerdá, Xim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

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