Conflict and conflict resolution in social insects

Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 151-178

  Heinze, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02624-9_6     Document Type: Chapter

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