Walking the line: Search behavior and foraging success in ant species

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 501-509

  Pearce Duvet, Jessica M C ^a,c   Elemans, Coen P H ^a,b   Feener Jr , Donald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

ant morphology; ant movement; discovery ability; foraging behavior; Formicidae

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BODY SIZE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOVEMENT; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 79955387281     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr001     Document Type: Article

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