Recruiter or recruit: who boosts the recruitment in starved nests in mass foraging ants?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-35

  Mailleux, Anne Catherine ^a   Buffin, Aurelie ^b   Detrain, Claire ^b   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ant; foraging; Lasius niger; starvation; sugar transfer; threshold

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONIZATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SOCIAL INSECT; STARVATION; SUGAR; WORKER CASTE;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; LASIUS NIGER;

EID: 72149087694     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.09.027     Document Type: Article

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