Influence of seed size and seed nature on recruitment in the polymorphic harvester ant Messor barbarus

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 289-300

  Heredia, A ^a   Detrain, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ant; Foraging; Polyethism; Polymorphism; Recruitment; Seed

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; POLYMORPHISM; RECRUITMENT; SEED SIZE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; CANARY; FORAGING; HARVESTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; SEED SIZE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANTS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EFFICIENCY; FOOD PREFERENCES; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; ORIENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SEEDS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

FORMICIDAE; MESSOR BARBARUS;

EID: 26044482426     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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