Suburban sprawl: Environmental features affect colony social and spatial structure in the black carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-71

  Buczkowski, Grzegorz ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black carpenter ant; Camponotus pennsylvanicus; Colony spatial structure; Foraging; Nest fidelity; Polydomy

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NEST; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEX ALLOCATION; SITE FIDELITY; SOCIAL INSECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CAMPONOTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78650955844     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.01245.x     Document Type: Article

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