Information processing in social insects /

The book provides a first comprehensive overview of both experimental and theoretical research on information processing in insect societies. Its purpose is to make the reader familiar with the methodology and ways of thinking followed by scientists at the leading edge of the field. The book is aime...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Detrain, C. (Claire), 1963-, Deneubourg, J. L., Pasteels, Jacques M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Basel, Switzerland] : Springer Basel AG, [1999]
Temas:
Insects > Behavior.
Insect societies.
Animal communication.
Insectes > Mœurs et comportement.
Sociétés d'insectes.
Communication animale.
Animal communication
Insect societies
Insects > Behavior
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 1 Group size and information flow inside the colony
  • Group size, productivity, and information flow in social wasps
  • Task partitioning in foraging: general principles, efficiency and information reliability of queueing delays
  • Interaction patterns and task allocation in ant colonies
  • Information flow during social feeding in ant societies
  • Models of information flow in ant foraging: the benefits of both attractive and repulsive signals
  • Information flow in the social domain: how individuals decide what to do next
  • 2 Role and control of behavioral thresholds
  • Response thresholds and division of labor in insect colonies
  • Role and variability of response thresholds in the regulation of division of labor in insect societies
  • Social control of division of labor in honey bee colonies
  • Genetic, developmental and environmental determinants of honey bee foraging behavior
  • Behavioral threshold variability: costs and benefits in insect societies
  • 3 The individual at the core of information management
  • Individuality and colonial identity in ants: the emergence of the social representation concept
  • Key individuals and the organisation of labor in ants
  • Temporal information in social insects
  • The individual at the core of information management
  • 4 Amplification of information and emergence of collective patterns
  • Activity cycles in ant colonies: worker interactions and decentralized control
  • The mechanisms and rules of coordinated building in social insects
  • Decision-making in foraging by social insects
  • The mystery of swarming honeybees: from individual behaviors to collective decisions
  • Collective behavior in social caterpillars
  • Self-organization or individual complexity: a false dilemma or a true complementarity?

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