The influence of the physical environment on the self-organised foraging patterns of ants

被引：30

作者：

Detrain C. ^{[1
]}

Natan C. ^{[1
]}

Deneubourg J.-L. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Laboratoire de Biologie Animale et Cellulaire, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, CP 160/12

[2] Center for the Study of Non-linear Phenomena, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, CP 231, Boulevard du Triomphe

来源：

Naturwissenschaften | 2001年 / 88卷 / 4期

关键词：

Experimental Data; Theoretical Analyse; Behavioural Change; Physical Environment; Local Information;

D O I：

10.1007/s001140100217

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摘要：

Among social insects such as ants, scouts that modulate their recruiting behaviour, following simple rules based on local information, generate collective patterns of foraging. Here we demonstrate that features of the abiotic environment, specifically the foraging substrate, may also be influential in the emergence of group-level decisions such as the choice of one foraging path. Experimental data and theoretical analyses show that the collective patterns can arise independently of behavioural changes of individual scouts and can result, through self-organising processes, from the physico-chemical properties of the environment that alter the dynamics of information transfer by chemical trails.

引用

页码：171 / 174

页数：3

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