Recruitment strategies and colony size in ants.

Ants use a great variety of recruitment methods to forage for food or find new nests, including tandem running, group recruitment and scent trails. It has been known for some time that there is a loose correlation across many taxa between species-specific mature colony size and recruitment method. V...

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Main Authors: Robert Planqué, Jan Bouwe van den Berg, Nigel R Franks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2915909?pdf=render