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Allometric scaling of patrolling rate and nest volume in Constrictotermes cyphe...
DeSouza, Og; Araújo, Ana Paula Albano; Florencio, Daniela Faria; Rosa, Cassiano Sousa; Marins, Alessandra; Costa, Diogo AndradeStructural and functional traits of organisms are known to be related to the size of individuals and to the size of their colonies when they belong to one. Among such traits, propensity to inquilinism in termites is known to relate positively to colony size. Larger termitaria hold larger diversity of facultative inquilines than smaller nests, whereas obligate inquilines seem unable to settle in nests smaller th...
Diet segregation between cohabiting builder and inquiline termite species
Florencio, Daniela Faria; Marins, Alessandra; Rosa, Cassiano Sousa; Araújo, Ana Paula Albano; Silva, Ivo Ribeiro; DeSouza, Og; Cristaldo, Paulo FellipeHow do termite inquilines manage to cohabit termitaria along with the termite builder species? With this in mind, we analysed one of the several strategies that inquilines could use to circumvent conflicts with their hosts, namely, the use of distinct diets. We inspected overlapping patterns for the diets of several cohabiting Neotropical termite species, as inferred from carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures...
Coexistência de espécies de cupins em cupinzeiros via diferenciação no uso dos ...
Florencio, Daniela FariaCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior; O inquilinismo, coexistência de diferentes espécies de cupins em cupinzeiros, é um fenômeno muito comum na natureza. Apesar da sua importância, existem poucos estudos que visam entender os mecanismos que possibilitam a coexistência das inúmeras espécies de cupins no interior dos cupinzeiros. Neste caso, existe uma espécie que funda e constrói o cupinz...
Diet segregation between cohabiting builder and inquiline termite species
Araújo, Ana Paula Albano; Florencio, Daniela Faria; Marins, Alessandra; Cassiano Sousa, Rosa; Cristaldo, Paulo Fellipe; Silva, Ivo Ribeiro; Souza, Og deHow do termite inquilines manage to cohabit termitaria along with the termite builder species? With this in mind, we analysed one of the several strategies that inquilines could use to circumvent conflicts with their hosts, namely, the use of distinct diets. We inspected overlapping patterns for the diets of several cohabiting Neotropical termite species, as inferred from carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures...