Food encounter rates of simulated termite tunnels with variable food size/distribution pattern and tunnel branch length

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 243, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 493-500

  Lee, S H ^a   Bardunias, P ^a   Su, N Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clumped distribution; Encounter rate; Lattice gas model; Termite

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXCAVATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; SIMULATION; TERMITE; TUNNEL;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; ISOPTERA; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; SOIL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; ISOPTERA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOIL;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 33750685585     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.07.026     Document Type: Article

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