Excavation and aggregation as organizing factors in de novo construction by mound-building termites

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2017-06-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2016.2730PMID 28615497PMCID PMC5474063
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