Exploring landscape structure effect on termite territory size using a model approach

BioSystems

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 890-896

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal; Heterogeneous landscape; Lattice model; Termite foraging territory

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANGE SIZE; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TERMITE; TERRITORIALITY;

ARTICLE; ISOPTERA; LANDSCAPE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SUMMER; WINTER;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA;

EID: 35648951710     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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