Encyclopedia of Social Insects / / edited by Christopher K. Starr
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| Titolo: |
Encyclopedia of Social Insects / / edited by Christopher K. Starr
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource : 491 ill., 416 ill. in color |
| Disciplina: | 595.71782 |
| Soggetto topico: | Invertebrates |
| Biology - Technique | |
| Conservation biology | |
| Ecology | |
| Animal migration | |
| Invertebrate Zoology | |
| Experimental Organisms | |
| Conservation Biology | |
| Animal Migration | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | StarrChristopher K. <1949-> |
| Nota di contenuto: | Aculeata: phylogeny and classification -- african honey bees -- Allodapini -- Allomones -- Aneuretus simoni -- bees: ecological roles -- bees: phylogeny and classification -- brood care -- brood-stimulation theory [in army ants] -- bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) and Dinoponera -- cape honey bee -- carpenter ants (Camponotus) -- caste -- caste differentiation: ants -- caste differentiation: genetic and epigenetic factors -- dacetine ants -- dampwood termites (Archotermopsidae) -- defensive strategies -- Diacamma -- Dolichoderinae -- drywood termites (Kalotermitidae) -- Ectatomma -- eastern hive bee (Apis cerana) -- eusociality -- exocrine glands -- extra-floral nectaries -- fire ants (Solenopsis in part -- Foraminini -- Formicinae -- fossil social insects -- fungus-gardening ants. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids. The work is to serve as a very convenient, yet authoritative reference work on the biology and systematics of social insects of the world. This is a project of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), the worldwide organizing body for the scientific study of social insects. . |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Encyclopedia of Social Insects |
| ISBN: | 1-80316-129-9 |
| 3-030-28102-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910484803203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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