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Wilson, E. O. 1976. Behavioral discretization and the number of castes in an ant species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1, 141–154.
Seeley, T. D. 1982. Adaptive significance of the age polyethism schedule in honeybee colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 11, 287–293.
Sendova-Franks AB, Franks NR (1995) Spatial relationships within nests of the ant Leptothorax unifasciatus (Latr.) and their implications for the division of labour. Anim Behav 50:121–136
首次提出‘spatial fidelity zones
’:Individuals within a social insect colony that tend to return to particular areas of the nest
bumblebee nests are not arranged in a predictable pattern. Egg clumps (3–4 eggs each) are laid in all regions of the nest.(不存在“幼虫堆”或幼虫区/中心?)
Powell, S. & Tschinkel, W. R. Ritualized conflict in Odontomachus brunneus and the generation of interaction-based task allocation: a new organizational mechanism in ants. Animal Behaviour 58, 965–972 (1999).
Backen, S. J., Sendova-Franks, A. B. & Franks, N. R. 2000. Testing the limits of social resilience in ant colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 48, 125–131.
spatial zone size
、离nest character
、In-nest reference points
距离、移动距离几个参照指标,发现活动范围小的工蜂倾向于靠近brood、靠近中心、喂食幼虫,而活动范围大的工蜂会遭遇更多的任务信息流。Sharma, N. & Gadagkar, R. A place for everything and everything in its place: spatial organization of individuals on nests of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2019)