MODELING SOCIAL INSECT FORAGING
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| Authors: | YDENBERG, R; SCHMIDHEMPEL, P |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Journal: | Trends Ecol. Evol. 9: 491-493 Article Link (DOI) PubMed |
| Title: | MODELING SOCIAL INSECT FORAGING |
| Abstract: | Foraging in the social insects can be viewed as a provisioning process, in which workers are powered by one resource (e.g. nectar) to deliver another (e.g. pollen) for the colony. The rate of delivery of a resource depends on the number of workers and how hard they work, which may depend on self-feeding rate. Whether individuals sacrifice their own foraging efficiency in favour of colony performance is unclear, as theory and experiment have not yet properly addressed these issues. |
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