Information Processing in Social InsectsClaire Detrain, J. L. Deneubourg, Jacques M. Pasteels 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 aimed at postgraduate students and researchers working on social insects and insects that live in groups as well as any reader interested in behavioural ecology, communication and social organization. |
Contents
Group size productivity and information flow in social wasps | 3 |
general principles efficiency and information reliability of queueing delays | 31 |
Interaction patterns and task allocation in ant colonies | 51 |
Information flow during social feeding in ant societies | 69 |
the benefits of both attractive and repulsive signals | 83 |
how individuals decide what to do next | 101 |
Response thresholds and division of labor in insect colonies | 115 |
Role and variability of response thresholds in the regulation of division of labor in insect societies | 141 |
Key individuals and the organisation of labor in ants | 239 |
Temporal information in social insects | 261 |
The individual at the core of information management | 277 |
worker interactions and decentralized control | 289 |
The mechanisms and rules of coordinated building in social insects | 309 |
Decisionmaking in foraging by social insects | 329 |
The mystery of swarming honeybees from individual behaviors to collective decisions | 353 |
Collective behavior in social caterpillars | 377 |
Social control of division of labor in honey bee colonies | 165 |
Genetic developmental and environmental determinants of honey bee foraging behavior | 187 |
costs and benefits in insect societies | 203 |
the emergence of the social representation concept | 219 |
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Information Processing in Social Insects Claire Detrain,J. L. Deneubourg,Jacques M. Pasteels Limited preview - 1999 |
Information Processing in Social Insects Claire Detrain,Jean L. Deneubourg,Jacques M. Pasteels Limited preview - 2012 |
Information Processing in Social Insects Claire Detrain,Jean L Deneubourg,Jacques M Pasteels No preview available - 1999 |
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