Linear recruitment leads to allocation and flexibility in collective foraging by ants

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 967-975

  Shaffer, Zachary ^a   Sasaki, Takao ^a   Pratt, Stephen C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant; Collective foraging; Communication; Cooperation; Decision making; Linear recruitment; Tandem running; Temnothorax rugatulus

Indexed keywords

ANT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PHEROMONE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; TEMNOTHORAX RUGATULUS;

EID: 84886281796     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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