Tragedy of the commons in Melipona bees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2004, Pages

  Wenseleers, Tom ^a,b   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Caste conflict; Melipona; Stingless bees; Tragedy of the commons

Indexed keywords

BEE; KINSHIP; RESOURCE USE;

ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INSECT SOCIETY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MELIPONA; MELIPONINAE;

EID: 3242877289     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0159     Document Type: Article

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