Metabolic and behavioral integration in social insect colonies
abstract: In social insect colonies, as with individual animals, the rates of biological processes scale with body size. The remarkable explanatory power of metabolic allometry in ecology and evolutionary biology derives from the great diversity of life exhibiting a nonlinear scaling pattern in whic...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.15838 |