Ecology: Termite Patterning at Multiple Scales

Corina E Tarnita

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.058

Ecology: Termite Patterning at Multiple Scales

Curr Biol. 2018 Dec 17;28(24):R1394-R1396. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.058.

Author

Corina E Tarnita¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Electronic address: ctarnita@princeton.edu.

PMID: 30562532
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.058

Abstract

A vast and ancient array of regularly spaced dirt mounds - the result of termite activities- has been discovered in Brazil. Might this inform our understanding of general mechanisms of spatial patterning at different scales?

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Animals
Brazil
Ecology
Ecosystem
Isoptera*