Individual variation in exploratory behaviour improves speed and accuracy of collective nest selection by Argentine ants

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 93, Issue , 2014, Pages 261-266

  Hui, Ashley ^a   Pinter Wollman, Noa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural syndrome; Collective behaviour; Dispersal; Group composition; Individual variation; Linepithema humile; Personality; Range expansion; Relocation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISPERSAL; INVASIVE SPECIES; MATE CHOICE; NEST SITE; PROPAGULE; RANGE EXPANSION; RELOCATION; SITE SELECTION; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84902318943     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.05.006     Document Type: Article

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