Temperature limits trail following behaviour through pheromone decay in ants

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 98, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1009-1017

  Van Oudenhove, Louise ^a,b   Billoir, Elise ^a   Boulay, Raphaël ^b,c   Bernstein, Carlos ^a   Cerdá, Xim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ant foraging behaviour; Bayesian inference; Mechanistic model; Mediterranean ant community; Tapinoma nigerrimum; Trail pheromone

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EVAPORATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHEROMONE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHEROMONES; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

FORMICIDAE; TAPINOMA NIGERRIMUM;

EID: 83555165017     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0852-6     Document Type: Article

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