Ants move to improve: colonies of Leptothorax albipennis emigrate whenever they find a superior nest site

By Anna R. Dornhaus, Nigel R. Franks, R. Hawkins, H.N.S. Shere. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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The speed-accuracy tradeoff: history, physiology, methodology, and behavior (2014, background): “Similarly, QT is lowered when nests are destroyed, leading to emergency migration (Dornhaus et al., 2004); see also (Marshall et al., 2006).”
Improvement in collective performance with experience in ants (2004, background): “1997) not only because their nest sites are fragile but also because colonies can choose to move to better nest sites even if their old one is intact (Dornhaus et al. 2004).”
Why do not all workers work? Colony size and workload during emigrations in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2008, methodology): “This method of housing Temnothorax colonies is well established (Franks et al. 2003a, 2005, 2006a, b, 2007a, b; Dornhaus et al. 2004; Dornhaus and Franks 2006).”
Behavioral mechanisms of collective nest-site choice by the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus (2005, background): “Colonies of both T. albipennis and T. curvispinosus respond to increasing severity by accelerating their emigrations, at the cost of decision accuracy (Dornhaus et al., 2004; Franks et al., 2003a).”
Decision making by small and large house-hunting ant colonies: one size fits all (2006, background): “They can also assess the comparative quality of their current nests and alternatives (Dornhaus et al. 2004).”
Consensus decision making in human crowds (2008, background): “Empirical work on consensus decision making has primarily concentrated on the eusocial insects (e.g. Camazine et al. 1999; Seeley & Buhrman 1999; Mallon et al. 2001; Britton et al. 2002; Pratt et al. 2002; Couzin & Franks 2003; Franks et al. 2003; Seeley 2003; Dornhaus et al. 2004; Seeley & Visscher”
Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making. (2009, background): “However, coloniesuse high-quorum thresholds to achieve slower, more accurate decisions when there is no urgency, for example, when the original nestremainsintactbuttheyarelooking fora better site [ 60 ].”
The biological principles of swarm intelligence (2007, background): “Conversely, if no particular pressure for emigrating exists, these ants increase the quorum value and thus make more accurate the comparison between the nests (Dornhaus et al. 2004).”