Assessing assessing: numerical competence in ants

在十和田地区完成了实地样品采集。继续在实验室进行行为研究，以制作关于群体规模对集体行为的影响的高影响文章（编写中）。出席了在澳大利亚凯恩斯举行的国际社会昆虫研究联合会国际会议，并提交了关于群体规模对蚂蚁行为影响的研究报告。随后，访问了澳大利亚阿德莱德的弗林德斯大学，与合作者Michael施瓦茨进行了讨论。与香川、北海道、东京和澳大利亚的合作者完成了关于Myrmecina行为变异的研究的遗传部分2015年3月，我受邀到巴黎的皮埃尔和玛丽·居里大学做研究员，与合作者蒂博·蒙宁和尼古拉斯·勒耶一起，我们完成了一个蚂蚁行为的模型研究（在生态学的评论中）。我在岩手大学的合同没有续签意味着项目的最后部分不能完成。然而，已经积累了大量的数据，可以编写几项研究报告（目前正在进行中）。

Completed field collections of samples in Towada area. Continued behavioural studies in the laboratory toward production of high impact article on group size effects on collective behaviour (in prep.).Attended the International Conference of the International Union for the study of social insects in Cairns, Australia and presented a study on group size effects on ant behaviour. Following this, visited Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, for discussions with collaborator Michael Schwarz.Completed genetic component of a study on behavioural variation in Myrmecina with collaborators in Kagawa, Hokkaido, Tokyo and Australia (manuscript in prep).During March 2015 I was an invited researcher at University Pierre et Marie curie in Paris, where, with collaborators Thibaud Monnin and Nicolas Loeuille, we completed a modelling study of ant behaviour (in review in Ecography).Non-renewal of my contract at Iwate University means that the final parts of the project cannot be complete. However, significant data have been accumulated allowing several studies to be written up (currently in progress).