Soil Moisture and Excavation Behaviour in the Chaco Leaf-Cutting Ant (Atta vollenweideri): Digging Performance and Prevention of Water Inflow into the Nest

The Chaco leaf-cutting ant Atta vollenweideri is native to the clay-heavy soils of the Gran Chaco region in South America. Because of seasonal floods, colonies are regularly exposed to varying moisture across the soil profile, a factor that not only strongly influences workers' digging performa...

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Autores principales: Pielström, Steffen, Roces, Flavio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095658

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095658

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