Random walk models of worker sorting in ant colonies

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 255-274

  Sendova Franks, Ana B ^a   Van Lent, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANT; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SORTING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; INDIVIDUAL BASED POPULATION MODEL; MODEL; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING; WORK;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPTOTHORAX;

EID: 85047700204     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2002.3011     Document Type: Article

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