Effect of interactions between harvester ants on forager decisions

Harvester ant colonies adjust their foraging activity to day-to-day changes in food availability and hour-to-hour changes in environmental conditions. This collective behavior is regulated through interactions, in the form of brief antennal contacts, between outgoing foragers and returning foragers...

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Main Authors: Jacob D Davidson, Roxana P Arauco-Aliaga, Sam Crow, Deborah M. Gordon, Mark S Goldman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2016.00115/full