An empirically based simulation of group foraging in the harvesting ant, \textit{Messor pergandei}

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2013.07.014MaRDI QIDQ2632362zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nicola J. R. Plowes, Kai Ramsch, Bert Hölldobler, Martin Middendorf

Publication date 14 May 2019

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.07.014

zbMATH Keywords

animal contestsgroup modelresource exploitationself-organized conflictterritoriality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40) Animal behavior (92D50)

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