Individual and collective decision-making during nest site selection by the ant Leptothorax albipennis

By Eamonn B. Mallon, Stephen C. Pratt, Nigel R. Franks. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Improvement in collective performance with experience in ants (2004, background): “When recording the behaviour of individually marked L. albipennis ants during emigration, Mallon et al. (2001) found that individual workers begin transporting throughout an emigration.”
An agent-based model of collective nest choice by the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2005, background): “…Complexity Temnothorax show a high degree of individual sophistication in their ability to assess candidate nests and accordingly regulate their recruitment behaviour (Mallon & Franks 2000; Mallon et al. 2001; Mugford et al. 2001; Pratt & Pierce 2001; Pratt et al. 2002; Franks et al. 2003b).”
Why do not all workers work? Colony size and workload during emigrations in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2008, background): “Collective behaviour during the emigration We found a significant difference in the quorum threshold used, i.e. the number of ants that need to be in the new nest before carrying is initiated (Mallon et al. 2001; Pratt et al. 2002).”
Quorum sensing during nest-site selection by honeybee swarms (2004, background): “Recent studies of Apis (honey) bees and Leptothorax ants have shown that these social insects achieve these feats of coordination without centralized control (Seeley and Buhrman 1999; Visscher and Camazine 1999; Mallon et al. 2001; Pratt et al. 2002).”
Consensus decision making in human crowds (2008, background): “Scouts locate potential new sites and their recruiting success is dependent on the quality of the new site (honeybees, A. mellifera: Seeley & Buhrman 1999; Seeley 2003; Seeley & Visscher 2004; ants, L. albipennis: Mallon et al. 2001; Franks et al. 2003).”
From nonlinearity to optimality: pheromone trail foraging by ants (2003, background): “Both ants and honeybees are capable of choosing the best of several possible new nest sites during migration or swarming (Mallon et al. 2001; Seeley & Buhrman 2001).”
NEST‐SITE LIMITATION IN COFFEE AGROECOSYSTEMS: ARTIFICIAL NESTS MAINTAIN DIVERSITY OF ARBOREAL ANTS (2005, background): “Certainly, some ants show high levels of nest-site selectivity (e.g., Djieto-Lordon and Dejean 1999, Mallon et al. 2001).”
Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) store both food and information in honeypots (2005, background): “Examples of such collective behaviors are the selection of a favorable new nest site among alternatives ( Mallon et al., 2001 ), allocation of foragers to the most profitable food patches (Seeley et al., 1991), and regulation of the number of workers engaged in a task according to the colony’s needs”
Strategies for choosing between alternatives with different attributes: exemplified by house-hunting ants (2003, background): “Furthermore, the satisficing, elimination by aspects and lexicographic strategies are not likely to be used by these ants given the way in which their decision making is organized (Mallon et al. 2001; Franks et al. 2002; Pratt et al. 2002).”
Quorum sensing by encounter rates in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2005, background): “First, an active ant initiates recruitment to a promising site only after a delay that varies inversely with site quality (Mallon et al., 2001).”
Modeling and analysis of nest-site selection by honeybee swarms: the speed and accuracy trade-off (2005, background): “It also occurs as part of the nest-site selection by the ant Leptothorax albipennis (Mallon et al. 2001; Pratt et al. 2002).”
Behavioral mechanisms of collective nest-site choice by the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus (2005, background): “When given a choice, colonies show clear preferences for certain nest designs over others, distinguished by cavity size, entrance diameter, and light level (Franks et al., 2003b; Mallon and Franks, 2000; Mallon et al., 2001).”
Emergence of group rationality from irrational individuals (2011, background): “In laboratory emigrations by Temnothorax colonies, such limited information is the rule: Most ants do not visit more than one of the available candidate sites or do so only after decision making is well underway (Mallon et al. 2001; Robinson et al. 2009).”
Modulation of individual behavior and collective decision-making during aggregation site selection by the ant Messor barbarus (2004, background): “…Seeley et al. 1991; Seeley 1995; Mailleux et al. 2000) and the suitability of potential nest sites (Seeley 1977, 1982; Seeley and Morse 1978; Seeley and Buhrman 1999; Visscher and Camazine 1999; Mallon and Franks 2000; Mallon et al. 2001; Mugford et al. 2001; Pratt et al. 2002; Franks et al. 2003).”
The principles of collective animal behaviour (2006, background): “For example, when choosing a new nest Temnothorax albipenis ants who have begun transporting to one nest site will, if they encounter an alternative nest site that they rank as inferior, begin transporting away from that nest to the nest they first transported to (Mallon et al. 2001; Pratt et al. 20”