Desert ants use foraging distance to adapt the nest search to the uncertainty of the path integrator

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 349-355

  Merkle, Tobias ^a,b   Wehner, Rüdiger ^c,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cataglyphis; Density profile; Foraging distance; Path integrator; Systematic search; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ANT; DESERT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOMING BEHAVIOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS; CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 76749086954     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp197     Document Type: Article

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