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Food exploitation by social insects :ecological, behavioral, and theoretical approaches

Title Proper

Food exploitation by social insects :ecological, behavioral, and theoretical approaches

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Boca Raton

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

CRC Press

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2009

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

348 p., ]4[ p. of plates : ill. )some col.(, map ; 27 cm.

Other Title Information

Contemporary topics in entomology series

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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edited by Stefan Jarau, Michael Hrncir

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Measuring the adaptiveness of social insect foraging strategies : an empirical approach / Nigel E. Raine and Lars Chittka -- Social cues and adaptive foraging strategies in ants / Claire Detrain and Jean-Louis Deneubourg -- Individual and social foraging in social wasps / Robert L. Jeanne and Benjamin J. Taylor -- Season-dependent foraging patterns : case study of a neotropical forest-dwelling ant )Pachycondyla striata; Ponerinae( / Flavia N.S. Medeiros and Paulo S. Oliveira -- Foraging range and the spatial distribution of worker bumble bees / Dave Goulson and Juliet L. Osborne -- How to tell your mates : costs and benefits of different recruitment mechanisms / Madeleine Beekman and Audrey Dussutour -- Social information use in foraging insects / Ellouise Leadbeater and Lars Chittka -- Local enhancement, local inhibition, eavesdropping, and the parasitism of social insect communication / E. Judith Slaa and William O.H. Hughes -- The role of scents in honey bee foraging and recruitment / Judith Reinhard and Mandyam V. Srinivasan -- Trophallaxis : a mechanism of information transfer / Walter M. Farina and Christoph Gruter -- Mobilizing the foraging force : mechanical signals in stingless bee recruitment / Michael Hrncir -- Chemical communication during food exploitation in stingless bees / Stefan Jarau -- The use of scent marks by foraging bumble bees / Dave Goulson -- Information transfer and the organization of foraging in grass- and leaf-cutting ants / Flavio Roces and Martin Bollazzi -- An evolutionary simulation of the origin of pheromone communication / Yoshiyuki Nakamichi and Takaya Arita -- Mathematical and neural network models of medium-range navigation during social insect foraging / Allen Cheung -- Social insects and the exploitation of food sources : concluding thoughts / Stefan Jarau and Michael Hrncir

Entry Element

، Insect societies

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Food ، Insects

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، Animal communication

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AU Jarau, Stefan

AU Hrncir, Michael

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SE Contemporary topics in entomology series