Recruitment strategies and colony size in ants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Planqué, Robert ^a   van den Berg, Jan Bouwe ^a   Franks, Nigel R ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; ORGANISM COLONY; PREDICTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY;

FORMICIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHEROMONES; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY;

EID: 77957766246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011664     Document Type: Article

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