Global energy gradients and size in colonial organisms: Worker mass and worker number in ant colonies
Body mass shapes processes from cell metabolism to community dynamics. Little is known, however, about how the average body mass of individuals varies among ecological communities. Ants alter colony mass by independently changing worker mass and/or worker number. In a survey of 49 ecosystems from tu...
| Published in: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
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National Academy of Sciences
2005
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC555972 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15788538 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407827102 |