Publication detail

Investigation of subterranean termites nest material composition, structure and properties

PTÁČEK, P. BRANDŠTETR, J. ŠOUKAL, F. OPRAVIL, T.

Original Title

Investigation of subterranean termites nest material composition, structure and properties

Type

book chapter

Language

English

Original Abstract

Termites (Isoptera) are colourless or white insect sometimes called (white ants) but they are intimate relatives of cockroaches. The organization of termite community definitely belongs to the most complicated in the nature hence termites are described as the eusocial - insect. Termites are distributed all over the world from the 47 degree Northern latitude to the 47 degree Southern latitude, but they are extremely abundant in the tropical rainforest. Until today there are recognized about 3 000 termite species in the 9 families but two of them became extinct.

Keywords

Termites nest, properties of inorganic materials, white ants.

Authors

PTÁČEK, P.; BRANDŠTETR, J.; ŠOUKAL, F.; OPRAVIL, T.

RIV year

2013

Released

3. 6. 2013

Publisher

Intech

Location

Rieka, Croatia

ISBN

978-953-51-1140-5

Book

Materials science, Advanced topics

Edition

Intech

Edition number

1

Pages from

519

Pages to

549

Pages count

30

BibTex

@inbook{BUT106806,
  author="Petr {Ptáček} and Jiří {Brandštetr} and František {Šoukal} and Tomáš {Opravil}",
  title="Investigation of subterranean termites nest material composition, structure and properties",
  booktitle="Materials science, Advanced topics",
  year="2013",
  publisher="Intech",
  address="Rieka, Croatia",
  series="Intech",
  edition="1",
  pages="519--549",
  doi="10.5772/56700",
  isbn="978-953-51-1140-5"
}