Temporal organization of bi-directional traffic in the ant Lasius niger (L.)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2903-2912

  Dussutour, Audrey ^a,c   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^b   Fourcassié, Vincent ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ants; Cooperation; Crowding; Foraging; Mass recruitment; Traffic; Trails

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRANCE; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRANCE; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS;

FORMICIDAE; LASIUS NIGER;

EID: 24644465237     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01711     Document Type: Article

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