Intraspecific competition affects population size and resource allocation in an ant dispersing by colony fission

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3312-3321

  Boulay, Raphaël ^a,b   Galarza, Juan A ^a   Chéron, Blandine ^c   Hefetz, Abraham ^d   Lenoir, Alain ^e   Van Oudenhove, Louise ^a,f   Cerda, Xim ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Ants; Aphaenogaster senilis; Density dependence; Population growth; Resilience; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY STRUCTURE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GENETIC MARKER; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

APHAENOGASTER SENILIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 78249269825     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1520.1     Document Type: Article

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