COOPERATIVE FORAGING, PRODUCTIVITY, AND THE CENTRAL-LIMIT-THEOREM

被引：72

作者：

WENZEL, JW

PICKERING, J

机构：

[1] Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 1991年 / 88卷 / 01期

关键词：

GROUP SIZE; SAMPLING THEORY; PROGRESSIVE PROVISIONING; SOCIALITY; POLISTES;

D O I：

10.1073/pnas.88.1.36

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The central limit theorem is applied to group foraging to show an automatic and universal benefit to group living. This may explain the paradoxical inverse correlation between group size and per capita brood production in primitively eusocial insects and why only one of the five major lineages of social insects contains species that revert to solitary habit.

引用

页码：36 / 38

页数：3

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