Self-organized digging activity in ant colonies

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-17

  Buhl, Jérôme ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^b   Grimal, Anne ^a   Theraulaz, Guy ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Colony size; Digging behavior; Messor sancta; Nest size regulation; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY; NEST STRUCTURE; POPULATION SIZE; SELF ORGANIZATION;

FORMICIDAE; MESSOR; MESSOR SANCTA;

EID: 18044361980     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0906-2     Document Type: Article

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