Behavioural traits of colony founders affect the life history of their colonies

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1026-1032

  Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive group demography; Araneae; Behavioural syndrome; Life history; Social insect; Trait mediated species interactions

Indexed keywords

ANELOSIMUS STUDIOSUS; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84931749025     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01825.x     Document Type: Article

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