Optimization, Conflict, and Nonoverlapping Foraging Ranges in Ants

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 529-543

  Adler, Frederick R ^a   Gordon, Deborah M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition for space; Foraging ranges; Game theory; Optimization models; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GAME; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERRITORIALITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERRITORIALITY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; POGONOMYRMEX; POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS;

EID: 0345581425     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378856     Document Type: Article

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