Nutritional regulation influencing colony dynamics and task allocations in social insect colonies

Nutritional regulation influencing colony dynamics and task allocations in social insect colonies

In this paper, we use an adaptive modeling framework to model and study how nutritional status (measured by the protein to carbohydrate ratio) may regulate population dynamics and foraging task allocation of social insect colonies. Mathematical analysis of our model shows that both investment to bro...

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Main Authors: Feng Rao, Marisabel Rodriguez Messan, Angelica Marquez, Nathan Smith, Yun Kang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-05-01
Series:Journal of Biological Dynamics
Subjects:
social insects
foraging activities
nutritional regulation
backward bifurcation
bistability dynamics
adaptive modeling
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17513758.2020.1786859

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17513758.2020.1786859

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