Distributed leadership and adaptive decision-making in the ant tetramorium caespitum

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1685, 2010, Pages 1267-1273

  Collignon, B ^a   Detrain, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ants; Decision making; Foraging; Group recruitment; Leader

Indexed keywords

ANT; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEADERSHIP; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SUCROSE;

FORMICIDAE; TETRAMORIUM CAESPITUM;

EID: 77951445060     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1976     Document Type: Article

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