Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology
Y. Abe, David Edward Bignell, T. Higashi
Published: 2014-11-14
Pages: 466
The book is a new compendium in which leading termite scientists review the advances of the last 30 years in our understanding of phylogeny, fossil records, relationships with cockroaches, social evolution, nesting, behaviour, mutualisms with archaea, protists, bacteria and fungi, nutrition, energy metabolism,population and community ecology, soil conditioning, greenhouse gas production and pest status.