Incorporating variability in honey bee waggle dance decoding improves the mapping of communicated resource locations

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 199, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1143-1152

  Schürch, Roger ^a   Couvillon, Margaret J ^a   Burns, Dominic D R ^a   Tasman, Kiah ^a   Waxman, David ^b   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calibration; Foraging ecology; Honey bee; Mapping; Waggle dance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEES; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTOMOLOGY; ETHOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84888334279     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-013-0860-4     Document Type: Article

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