Group-level dynamics in harvester ants: young colonies and the role of patrolling

Animal Behaviour - Tập 35 - Trang 833-843 - 1987
Deborah M. Gordon1
1Museum of Comparative Zoology and Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A.

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