How to tell your mates: Costs and benefits of different recruitment mechanisms

Food Exploitation by Social Insects: Ecological, Behavioral, and Theoretical Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 115-134

  Beekman, Madeleine ^a   Dussutour, Audrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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