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- who: Nikita Zachariah from the Centre have published the research: Bi-layered architecture facilitates high strength and ventilation in nest mounds of fungus-farming termites, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
- how: To understand the functional significance of this difference in porosity between core and periphery air permeability was tested in samples from the core and buttress of abandoned and occupied mounds (see "Methods"). For all analysis presented in this paper the outermost region of termite mounds with surface conduits directly in contact with the atmosphere was considered as the buttress and the innermost . . .
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