Forager activation and food availability in harvester ants

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 815-822

  Schafer, Robert J ^a   Holmes, Susan ^a   Gordon, Deborah M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ANT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR;

FORMICIDAE; POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS;

EID: 33645110840     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.024     Document Type: Article

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