Tracking individuals shows spatial fidelity is a key regulator of ant social organization

Science

Volumn 340, Issue 6136, 2013, Pages 1090-1093

  Mersch, Danielle P ^a   Crespi, Alessandro ^b   Keller, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COLONY FOUNDING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CAMPONOTUS FELLAH; EYE TRACKING; FORAGING; GROUP DYNAMICS; GROUP STRUCTURE; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; WORKER (INSECT);

CAMPONOTUS FELLAH; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 84878368022     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1234316     Document Type: Article

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