Weighting waiting in collective decision-making

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-356

  Planqué, Robert ^a   Dornhaus, Anna ^b   Franks, Nigel R ^a   Kovacs, Tim ^a   Marshall, James A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Decision making; Emigration; House hunting behavior

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY FOUNDING; COLONY STRUCTURE; DECISION MAKING; EMIGRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; NEST STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 33845666898     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0263-4     Document Type: Article

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