Ant colony size and the scaling of reproductive effort

Functional Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 674-681

  Shik, J Z ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonial organism; Life history trade off; Sex allocation conflict; Unitary organism

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANT; BIOMASS; COLONIAL ORGANISM; COLONY; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX ALLOCATION;

EID: 47249156118     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01428.x     Document Type: Article

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