How resources and encounters affect the distribution of foraging activity in a seed-harvesting ant

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 195-203

  Brown, Mark J F ^a,b   Gordon, Deborah M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central place forager; Encounters; Resource distribution; Seed harvesting ant; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

ANT; CONSPECIFIC; ENCOUNTER RATE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MESSOR ANDREI;

EID: 0034006549     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050011     Document Type: Article

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