Seasonal patterns of egg production in field colonies of the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Population Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-183

  Matsuura, Kenji ^a   Kobayashi, Norimasa ^a   Yashiro, Toshihisa ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annual life cycle; Colony growth; Reproductive schedule; Sociogenesis; Sociometry

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL ORGANISM; COLONY; EGG PRODUCTION; LIFE CYCLE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEASONALITY; SOCIOBIOLOGY; TERMITE;

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 33947139257     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-006-0030-4     Document Type: Article

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