Home Range Analysis in the Study of Spatial Organization on the Comb in the Paper Wasp Polistes Dominulus

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 579-587

  Baracchi, David ^a   Zaccaroni, Marco ^a   Cervo, Rita ^a   Turillazzi, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; SITE FIDELITY; SPACE USE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WASP; WORKER CASTE;

POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 77954587496     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01770.x     Document Type: Article

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