Regulation of ants' foraging to resource productivity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1524, 2003, Pages 1609-1616

  Mailleux, Anne Catherine ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a   Detrain, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ant; Aphid; Food partitioning; Food productivity; Foraging; Trail recruitment

Indexed keywords

ANT; APHID; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; APHID; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING; HONEY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HOMOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0042030966     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2398     Document Type: Article

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