Resource fidelity, brood distribution and foraging dynamics in complete laboratory colonies of reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera Rhinotermitidae)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 113-125

  Long, C E ^a   Thorne, B L ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Brood; Caste distribution; Resource fidelity; Reticulitermes flavipes

Indexed keywords

BROOD SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERMITE;

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 33746227347     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2006.9522717     Document Type: Article

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