Regulation of Ant Foraging: A Review of the Role of Information Use and Personality
Regulation of Ant Foraging: A Review of the Role of Information Use and Personality
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蚂蚁觅食的监管:信息使用和个性作用的回顾
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
P. D’ettorre
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文献类型:
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作者:
Swetashree Kolay;R. Boulay;P. D’ettorre
Animals live in heterogeneous environments where food resources are transient and have to be exploited rapidly. Ants show a wide range of foraging strategies and this activity is tightly regulated irrespective of the mode of recruitment used. Individual foragers base their decision to forage on information received from nestmates (social information). Transmission of information can be in the form of direct physical interactions such as antennation or indirect exchange of information such as laying of pheromone trails. Foragers also rely on information from their internal states or experience (personal information). The interaction between these two sources of information gives rise to plasticity in foraging behavior. Recent studies have examined the role of personality (consistent inter-individual variation in behavioral traits) during ant foraging. Since colonies differ from each other in the distribution of personalities of their members, colonies may consistently differ in behavioral traits, giving rise to colony level personality. However, the interaction between information use and personality, especially at the individual level, remains unexplored. Here, we briefly summarize the literature on the effect of social and personal information on the regulation of ant foraging and the effect of personality on this behavior. We point out that a more focused examination of the interplay between personality and information use will help us understand how behavioral plasticity in the context of foraging is shaped at the colony and individual levels.
DOI:
10.1093/beheco/arz017
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
影响因子:
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作者:
Neumann,KevinM;Pinter-Wollman,Noa
通讯作者:
Pinter-Wollman,Noa