Influence of seed size and seed nature on recruitment in the polymorphic harvester ant Messor barbarus
- 1 November 2005
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Behavioural Processes
- Vol. 70 (3), 289-300
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2005.08.001
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