The Regulation of Ant Colony Foraging Activity without Spatial Information

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Prabhakar, Balaji ^a   Dektar, Katherine N ^a   Gordon, Deborah M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ANT COLONIES; ANT SPECIES; CENTRAL CONTROL; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR; DYNAMICAL NETWORKS; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; PHEROMONE TRAILS; SOCIAL INSECTS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPECIFIC LOCATION;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

PHEROMONE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL INFORMATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS;

EID: 84866064713     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002670     Document Type: Article

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