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Trunk trails and the searching strategy of a leaf-cutter ant,Atta colombica

✍ Scribed by John D. Shepherd

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1982
Tongue: English
Weight: 765 KB
Volume: 11
Category: Article
ISSN: 0340-5443
DOI: 10.1007/bf00300095

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