Spatial fidelity of workers predicts collective response to disturbance in a social insect

How do social insect colonies regulate tasks after the developmental stage and in response to changing environments? Here, Crall et al. use automated individual tracking to reveal that task switching after a major colony disturbance helps to maintain collective foraging performance in bumble bees.

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Auteurs principaux: James D. Crall, Nick Gravish, Andrew M. Mountcastle, Sarah D. Kocher, Robert L. Oppenheimer, Naomi E. Pierce, Stacey A. Combes
Format: article
Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/88070abd02f1404d8122ed6feb25f713
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