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Group and Mass Recruitment in Ant Colonies: the Influence of Contact Rates

✍ Scribed by Eric Bonabeau; Guy Theraulaz; Jean-Louis Deneubourg

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
265 KB
Volume
195
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5193

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✦ Synopsis

The influence of contact rates on the efficiency (the ability to exploit a profitable environment) and flexibility (the ability to track down a changing environment) of foraging in ants is studied theoretically in the case where foraging relies on a mixture of group and mass recruitment. It is shown that a combination of efficiency and flexibility can be reached across a range of group sizes if (1) mass recruitment is combined with a low level of group recruitment, and (2) contact rates are weakly regulated. These results are discussed in relation to empirical work. Copyright 1998 Academic Press

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