Competitive Interactions in Ant Assemblage in a Rocky Field Environment: Is Being Fast and Attacking the Best Strategy?

The ant assemblage structure can be molded by mechanisms such as competition and dominance-discovery trade-off. In harsh circumstances is likely that ant species who control the food resource are the first to arrive at the baits, are more aggressive (behavioral dominance), abundant (numerical domina...

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Main Authors: Tatiane Archanjo Sales, Isabel Neto Hastenreiter, Laila Fieto Ribeiro, Juliane Floriano Santos Lopes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana 2014-09-01
Series:Sociobiology
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Online Access:http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/331