Encounter rate and task allocation in harvester ants

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

• Publication date

  1999-04-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s002650050573
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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