Individual and collective choice: Parallel prospecting and mining in ants

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-305

  Aleksiev, Antony S ^a   Longdon, Ben ^a   Christmas, Matthew J ^a   Sendova Franks, Ana B ^b   Franks, Nigel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Ant; Nest excavation; Self organisation; Temnothorax albipennis

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT SELECTION; NEST SITE; SELF ORGANIZATION;

ANT; ARTICLE; COORDINATION; DECISION MAKING; MINING; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HOUSING, ANIMAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; LEPTOTHORAX ALBIPENNIS;

EID: 41049112489     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0329-9     Document Type: Article

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