Sector fidelity - An advantageous foraging behavior resulting from a heuristic search strategy

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 984-989

  Buchkremer, Eva Maria ^a   Reinhold, Klaus ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cataglyphis; Heuristic; Optimal foraging; Sector fidelity

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DESERT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HEURISTICS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 51749117853     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arn057     Document Type: Article

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