Quantifying the Effect of Colony Size and Food Distribution on Harvester Ant Foraging

Desert seed-harvester ants, genus Pogonomyrmex, are central place foragers that search for resources collectively. We quantify how seed harvesters exploit the spatial distribution of seeds to improve their rate of seed collection. We find that foraging rates are significantly influenced by the clump...

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Autores principales: Flanagan, Tatiana P., Letendre, Kenneth, Burnside, William R., Fricke, G. Matthew, Moses, Melanie E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22808035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039427

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22808035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039427

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