Numerical assessment affects aggression and competitive ability: A team-fighting strategy for the ant Formica xerophila

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1602, 2006, Pages 2737-2742

  Tanner, Colby J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive ability; Lanchester's fighting laws; Numerical assessment; Signals; Social animals

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL METHOD;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIGHTING; FORMICA XEROPHILA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; FORMICA; FORMICA INTEGROIDES; FORMICA XEROPHILA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 33750566963     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3626     Document Type: Article

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