The emergence of collective foraging in the arboreal Gnamptogenys menadensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 332-336

  Johnson, Christine A ^a,b   Lommelen, Els ^a   Allard, Diane ^a   Gobin, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARBOREAL SPECIES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; RECRUITMENT;

ARTICLE; COLONY FORMATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT; ISOPTERA; NONHUMAN; OPTIMAL FORAGING; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PROBABILITY; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALAYSIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

FORMICIDAE; GNAMPTOGENYS; GNAMPTOGENYS MENADENSIS; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA;

EID: 0042745384     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0435-2     Document Type: Article

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