To stay or to leave? decision rules for partner species relocation in two symbiotic pairs of desert beetles

Animal Cognition

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-54

  Rasa, O Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beetles; Burrow fidelity; Decision rules; Optimal strategies; Symbiosis; Tenebrionidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 2042418920     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050006     Document Type: Article

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