Local Regulation of Trail Networks of the Arboreal Turtle Ant, Cephalotes goniodontus
Local Regulation of Trail Networks of the Arboreal Turtle Ant, Cephalotes goniodontus
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United States: The University of Chicago Press
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United States: The University of Chicago Press
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This study examines how an arboreal ant colony maintains, extends, and repairs its network of foraging trails and nests, built on a network of vegetation. Nodes are junctions where a branch forks off from another or where a branch of one plant touching another provides a new edge on which ants could travel. The ants’ choice of edge at a node appear...
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Local Regulation of Trail Networks of the Arboreal Turtle Ant, Cephalotes goniodontus
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1986127137
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1986127137
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0003-0147
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1537-5323
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10.1086/693418
