Noise improves collective decision-making by ants in dynamic environments

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1677, 2009, Pages 4353-4361

  Dussutour, A ^a,b   Beekman, M ^a   Nicolis, S C ^c   Meyer, B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Université de Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier   (France)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decentralized decision making; Mass recruitment; Pheidole megacephala; Pheromone trails

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANT; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PHEROMONE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SELF ORGANIZATION; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ANT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; ORGANIZATION; PHEIDOLE MEGACEPHALA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; PHEIDOLE MEGACEPHALA;

EID: 72749103178     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1235     Document Type: Article

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