The Influence of Size on Foraging in the Ant, Atta cephalotes, and the Effect of Some Plant Defence Mechanisms
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 47 (1) , 173-188
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3930
Abstract
(1) Headwidth measurements of Atta cephalotes workers showed that the population size structure was continuously variable, unimodal and heavily skewed towards t...This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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