Increased nest cofounding and high intra-colony relatedness in the bee Exoneura bicolor (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Results from an experimental situation

Austral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 419-424

  Hurst, P S ^a   Gray, S ^a,c   Schwarz, M P ^a   Tilly, J A ^a   Foran, A C ^a   Adams, M ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c CRC for Soil and Land Management   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allodapini; Nesting ecology; Proximate factors; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444413422     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1997.tb00692.x     Document Type: Article

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