Keeping track of changes: The performance of ant colonies in dynamic environments

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 637-643

  Latty, Tanya ^a   Beekman, Madeleine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ant; Aphaenogaster longiceps; Dynamic foraging; Exploitation exploration trade off; Foraging; Group size; Notoncus ectatomoides; Paratrechina longicornis; Pheidole megacephala; Rhytidoponera metallica

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; SOCIAL INSECT; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; APHAENOGASTER LONGICEPS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; NOTONCUS; PARATRECHINA LONGICORNIS; PHEIDOLE MEGACEPHALA; RHYTIDOPONERA METALLICA;

EID: 84875261309     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.027     Document Type: Article

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