Emergency networking: famine relief in ant colonies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 473-485

  Sendova Franks, Ana B ^a   Hayward, Rebecca K ^b   Wulf, Benjamin ^c   Klimek, Thomas ^c   James, Richard ^b   Planqué, Robert ^d   Britton, Nicholas F ^e   Franks, Nigel R ^c  

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

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ant; distribution; emergency; food; network; social; spatial; starvation; Temnothorax albipennis; trophallaxis

Indexed keywords

ANT; FAMINE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; STARVATION; VULNERABILITY; ZENITH ANGLE;

FORMICIDAE; LEPTOTHORAX ALBIPENNIS;

EID: 74649084341     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.035     Document Type: Article

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