Individual experience-based foraging can generate community territorial structure for competing ant species

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 591-603

  Tanner, Colby J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Experience based foraging; Formica; Multi agent simulation; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INSECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; FORMICA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 58649116019     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0694-1     Document Type: Article

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