COLONY SIZE COMMUNICATION AND ANT FORAGING STRATEGY
COLONY SIZE COMMUNICATION AND ANT FORAGING STRATEGY
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DOI：
10.1155/1989/94279
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发表时间：
1989-01-01
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PASTEELS J M
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BECKERS R;GOSS S;PASTEELS J M
研究了98种蚂蚁的觅食策略与其群体大小的关系。六个觅食策略的区别，即个人，串联，集团/大规模招聘，树干尾巴，和行军蚁类型，并被认为是与增加殖民地的大小。这支持了一个假设，即殖民地越大，个体工蚁就越多地融入化学通讯网络。提出了两种极端的组织蓝图。第一个由小型社会组成，它们依靠其成员的学习能力来有效地利用觅食区域。第二个依赖于复杂的集体模式，自发地出现从化学介导的招聘过程与环境相互作用。
The foraging strategy of 98 ant species is examined in relation to their colony size. Six foraging strategies are distinguished, namely individual, tandem, group/mass recruitment, trunk tail, and army ant type, and are seen to be associated with increasing colony size. This supports the hypothesis that the larger the colony, the more the individual worker is integrated into a network of chemical communication. Two extreme organisational blueprints are proposed. The first consists of small societies which rely on the capacity for learning of its members to exploit the foraging area efficiently. The second relies on the complex collective patterns that spontaneously emerge from chemically mediated recruitment processes interacting with the environment.