Hierarchical demography: A general approach with an application to honey bees

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 556-566

  Al Khafaji, Karim ^a   Tuljapurkar, Shripad ^a   Carey, James R ^b   Page Jr , Robert E ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Bees; Demography; Eusocial insects; Hierarchical population; Multilevel selection population model

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; DEMOGRAPHY; EUSOCIALITY; HONEYBEE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MONOGYNY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SWARMING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 63849257293     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0402.1     Document Type: Article

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