Negative feedback may suppress variation to improve collective foraging performance.
Social insect colonies use negative as well as positive feedback signals to regulate foraging behaviour. In ants and bees individual foragers have been observed to use negative pheromones or mechano-auditory signals to indicate that forage sources are not ideal, for example being unrewarded, crowded...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-05-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010090 |