An Agent-Based Model of Ant Colony Energy and Population Dynamics: Effects of Temperature and Food Fluctuation
The ant colony, known as a self-organized system, can adapt to the environment by a series of negative and positive feedbacks. There is still a lack of mechanistic understanding of how the factors, such as temperature and food, coordinate the labor of ants. According to the Metabolic Theory of Ecolo...
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Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University
2014
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| Online Access: | https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2395 https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3757&context=etd |