A new case of consensual decision: Collective movement in earthworms

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 546-553

  Zirbes, Lara ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^b   Brostaux, Yves ^a   Haubruge, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BIOMASS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EARTHWORM; FOOD INTAKE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MATURATION; MOVEMENT; OLFACTION; SOIL FAUNA; SURVIVAL;

ANNELIDA; EISENIA FETIDA;

EID: 77953854514     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01768.x     Document Type: Article

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