Transitions in social complexity along elevational gradients reveal a combined impact of season length and development time on social evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1787, 2014, Pages

  Kocher, Sarah D ^a   Pellissier, Löic ^c,d   Veller, Carl ^a,b   Purcell, Jessica ^e   Nowak, Martin A ^a,b   Chapuisat, Michel ^e   Pierce, Naomi E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Economics ^*

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altitude; Development time; Hymenoptera; Social behaviour; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; ELEVATION; ENTOMOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUSOCIALITY; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY; SEASONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84901395471     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0627     Document Type: Article

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