Mapping the navigational knowledge of individually foraging ants, Myrmecia croslandi

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1765, 2013, Pages

  Narendra, Ajay ^a   Gourmaud, Sarah ^a   Zeil, Jochen ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Differential gps; Image difference function; Landmark panorama; Myrmecia croslandi; Navigation; Visual homing

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; MAPPING METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; MYRMECIA CROSLANDI;

EID: 84879391437     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0683     Document Type: Article

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