Responding to a Variable Environment: Home Range, Foraging Behavior, and Nest Relocation in the Costa Rican Rainforest Ant Aphaenogaster araneoides

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 687-701

  McGlynn, Terrence P ^a   Shotell, Melissa D ^a   Kelly, Megan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental variation; Home range; Nest relocation; Rainforest; Resource abundance

Indexed keywords

APHAENOGASTER; APHAENOGASTER ARANEOIDES; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 0347723857     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOIR.0000007704.22329.a5     Document Type: Article

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