Solitary nesting and reproductive success in the paper wasp Polistes aurifer

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 445-456

  Liebert, Aviva E ^a,b   Nonacs, Peter ^a   Wayne, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Eusociality; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SKEWNESS;

POLISTES; POLISTES AURIFER; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; POLISTINAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 15244352599     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0875-5     Document Type: Article

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