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The Role of Non-Foraging Nests in Polydomous Wood Ant Colonies

A colony of red wood ants can inhabit more than one spatially separated nest, in a strategy called polydomy. Some nests within these polydomous colonies have no foraging trails to aphid colonies in the canopy. In this study we identify and investigate the possible roles of non-foraging nests in poly...

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Autores principales: Ellis, Samuel, Robinson, Elva J. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4605684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26465750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138321