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DOI | 10.1093/beheco/ars066 |
Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies | |
Pinter-Wollman, Noa1,2; Gordon, Deborah M.1; Holmes, Susan2 | |
通讯作者 | Pinter-Wollman, Noa |
来源期刊 | BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY |
ISSN | 1045-2249 |
EISSN | 1465-7279 |
出版年 | 2012 |
卷号 | 23期号:5页码:1022-1029 |
英文摘要 | Environmental conditions and physical constraints both influence an animal’s behavior. We investigate whether behavioral variation among colonies of the black harvester ant, Messor andrei, remains consistent across foraging and disturbance situations and ask whether consistent colony behavior is affected by nest site and weather. We examined variation among colonies in responsiveness to food baits and to disturbance, measured as a change in numbers of active ants, and in the speed with which colonies retrieved food and removed debris. Colonies differed consistently, across foraging and disturbance situations, in both responsiveness and speed. Increased activity in response to food was associated with a smaller decrease in response to alarm. Speed of retrieving food was correlated with speed of removing debris. In all colonies, speed was greater in dry conditions, reducing the amount of time ants spent outside the nest. While a colony occupied a certain nest site, its responsiveness was consistent in both foraging and disturbance situations, suggesting that nest structure influences colony personality. |
英文关键词 | behavioral syndromes collective behavior harvester ant Messor andrei nest structure personality plasticity social insects temperament |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000308228200017 |
WOS关键词 | DIVISION-OF-LABOR ; BEHAVIORAL PLASTICITY ; TEMPORAL POLYETHISM ; POGONOMYRMEX-BADIUS ; ANIMAL PERSONALITY ; FORAGING ACTIVITY ; TASK ALLOCATION ; APIS-MELLIFERA ; SOCIAL INSECTS ; DESERT ANT |
WOS类目 | Behavioral Sciences ; Biology ; Ecology ; Zoology |
WOS研究方向 | Behavioral Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Zoology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/171524 |
作者单位 | 1.Stanford Univ, Dept Biol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA; 2.Stanford Univ, Dept Stat, Stanford, CA 94305 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Pinter-Wollman, Noa,Gordon, Deborah M.,Holmes, Susan. Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies[J],2012,23(5):1022-1029. |
APA | Pinter-Wollman, Noa,Gordon, Deborah M.,&Holmes, Susan.(2012).Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies.BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY,23(5),1022-1029. |
MLA | Pinter-Wollman, Noa,et al."Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies".BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY 23.5(2012):1022-1029. |
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