Per-capita productivity in a social wasp: No evidence for a negative effect of colony size

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 412-419

  Bouwma, Andrew M ^a,b   Nordheim, E V ^a   Jeanne, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colony size; Parachartergus fraternus; Per capita productivity; Polistinae; Social wasps

Indexed keywords

EUSOCIALITY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; SOCIAL INSECT; SWARMING; WASP;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PARACHARTERGUS FRATERNUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 33845683914     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-005-0886-5     Document Type: Article

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