Tunnel volume regulation and group size of subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1158-1164

  Su, Nan Yao ^a   Lee, Sang Hee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b National Institute for Mathematical Sciences   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Coptotermes formosanus; Individual distance; Individual volume; Reticulitermes flavipes; Self organized behavior

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUP SIZE; GROWTH CURVE; NESTING; SELF ORGANIZATION; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TERMITE; TUNNELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLUME;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 77649251165     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/008.102.0626     Document Type: Article

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