Estimation of foraging territories of Reticulitermes grassei through mark-release-recapture

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-128

  Nobre, T ^a,b   Nunes, Lina ^b   Bignell, D E ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bait; Colony; Isoptera; Neutral red; Nile blue A; Resource sharing; Rhinotermitidae; Subterranean termites

Indexed keywords

BAIT; COLONY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DYE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; TERMITE; TERRITORY;

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES GRASSEI; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 34247381542     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00530.x     Document Type: Article

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