How to tell your mates—costs and benefits of different recruitment mechanisms
How to tell your mates—costs and benefits of different recruitment mechanisms
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10.1201/9781420075618-13
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2009
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M. Beekman;A. Dussutour
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作者:
M. Beekman;A. Dussutour
The evolution of sociality has created the need for information transfer among group members. Insects that live in societies cannot behave as if they were solitary; rather, actions by different group members need to be integrated to achieve desirable outcomes at the level of the group. The ways in which individuals exchange information depends largely on the size of the society. Small societies can rely on all individuals having knowledge about which tasks need to be done and where to go, but global knowledge about all tasks needed by a colony is much harder to achieve once group size increases (Deneubourg et al. 1987). Groups comprising a large number of individuals cannot rely on all individuals having perfect information about their colony’s needs, but must instead rely on their interactions with their peers as well as information directly obtained from their immediate surroundings. The result is self-organized emergence of adaptive behavior at the group level (Camazine et al. 2001). Recruitment is an example of such self-organized behavior. Recruitment, a collective term for any behavior that results in an increase in the number of individuals at a particular place (Deneubourg et al. 1986), to food sources is probably the most widely studied, but recruitment also occurs in the context of building (e.g., Karsai and Penzes 1993; Bonabeau et al. 1998), excavation (e.g., Deneubourg and Franks 1995), defense (e.g., Millor et al. 1999), and nest site selection (Pratt et al. 2002; Visscher 2007). contents