Collective decision-making in social spiders: Dragline-mediated amplification process acts as a recruitment mechanism

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 198, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 507-517

  Saffre, F ^a   Furey, R ^a,b   Krafft, B ^b   Deneubourg, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; RECRUITMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILK; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA;

EID: 0033591609     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1999.0927     Document Type: Article

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