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" Social Insects : "
by M.V. Brian.
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BL
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729301
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b549055
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by M.V. Brian.
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Social Insects : : Ecology and Behavioural Biology\ by M.V. Brian.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1983
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940095915X
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: 9400959176
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: 9789400959156
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: 9789400959170
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1 Introduction --;2 Food --;2.1 Termites as decomposers --;2.2 Wasps and ants as predators --;2.3 Sugars as fuel save prey --;2.4 Seed eaters --;2.5 Leaf eaters --;2.6 Pollen eaters --;3 Foraging by individuals --;3.1 Foraging strategy --;3.2 Worker variability --;4 Foraging in groups --;4.1 Communication about food --;4.2 Group slave-raiding --;4.3 Tunnels and tracks --;4.4 Nomadic foraging --;5 Cavity nests and soil mounds --;5.1 Cavities and burrows --;5.2 Soil mounds --;6 Nests of fibre, silk and wax --;6.1 Mounds of vegetation and tree nests --;6.2 Combs of cells --;7 Microclimate --;7.1 Environmental regulation --;7.2 Metabolic regulation --;8 Defence --;8.1 Painful and paralysing injections --;8.2 Toxic smears and repellants --;9 Food processing --;9.1 Mastication, extraction and regurgitation --;9.2 Yolk food supplements --;9.3 Head food glands --;10 Early population growth --;10.1 Food distribution --;10.2 Colony foundation --;10.3 The growth spurt --;11 Maturation --;11.1 Simple models of reproduction --;11.2 Social control over caste --;11.3 Males in social Hymenoptera --;11.4 Maturation in general --;12 Reproduction --;12.1 Caste morphogenesis --;12.2 Copulation and dispersal --;12.3 Production --;12.4 Summary --;13 Evolution of insect societies --;13.1 Theories of individual selection --;13.2 Models of these theories --;13.3 Group selection --;13.4 Conclusions --;14 Colonies --;14.1 The colony barrier --;14.2 Queen number and species ecology --;14.3 Queen interaction and queen relatedness --;15 Comparative ecology of congeneric species --;15.1 Ant and termite races --;15.2 Desert ants and termites --;15.3 Ants and termites in grassland --;15.4 Forest ants and termites --;15.5 Wasps and bumblebees --;15.6 Advanced bees --;16 Communities --;16.1 Temperate zone communities in grass and woodland --;16.2 Desert communities --;16.3 Tropical rain forest --;16.4 Conclusions --;17 Two themes --;17.1 Plant mutualism --;17.2 Social organization --;References --;Author index.
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Here is a guide to the ecology of social insects. even the experienced investigator may find the comparison between different groups of social insects illuminating. When I have cited an author in another author's paper, this implies that I have not read the original and the second author must take responsi- bility for accuracy!
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Science (General)
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QL496.B968 1983
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M V Brian
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