Spatial structure and nest demography reveal the influence of competition, parasitism and habitat quality on slavemaking ants and their hosts

BMC Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Scharf, Inon ^a,b   Fischer Blass, Birgit ^a   Foitzik, Susanne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GERMANY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NESTING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GERMANY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NEW YORK; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 79953087961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-11-9     Document Type: Article

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