Thermal physiology, foraging pattern, and worker body size interact to influence coexistence in sympatric polymorphic harvester ants (Messor spp.)

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  2022

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  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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  2022-06-01

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  DOI 10.1007/s00265-022-03186-6
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