Colony budding and its effects on food allocation in the highly polygynous ant, monomorium pharaonis

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1091-1099

  Buczkowski, Grzegorz ^a   Bennett, Gary ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CASTE; COLONY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRAGMENTATION; GROUP SIZE; POLYGYNY;

FORMICIDAE; MONOMORIUM PHARAONIS;

EID: 70349932301     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01698.x     Document Type: Article

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