<p>A. Number of ants in the arena over time. B. Number of ants along the arena border (i.e. less than 2.5 cm from the border) over time. For each plot the curve gives the mean and standard deviation over all trials.</p
<p>Treatments and sample times are low (triangles) and high (circles) ant attendance treatments samp...
<p>The blue line represents the feeder that had more ants after 5 minutes, the red line the other fe...
<p>The rate of returning foragers was experimentally decreased by removing the returning foragers, l...
<p>A. Frequency distribution of the distance moved by colonies in the Ant Heaven population. B. Colo...
<p>The y axis represents total numbers of marked ants observed passing a point on a trail on a given...
<p>Figs. A and B correspond to the experiments in the big arena, and Figs. C and D to those in the s...
<p>Ant nest abundance and spatial plots of ant nest distributions for all survey years.</p
<p>Objects are uniformly distributed along the border of a 50 cm diameter circular arena. Ants enter...
<p>(A) Mean average difference in the proportions of ants feeding at the two feeders during the whol...
<p>Each column shows the results from one colony on one day. The top row shows the total number of f...
<p>The two dashed lines above and below the curve are the s (the standard error of the mean) of the ...
<p>Treatments and sample times are low (triangles) and high (circles) ant attendance treatments samp...
<p>A) Each bar shows the mean rate of brief antennal contacts, in interactions per second, of ants i...
<p>A) The survival curve of the proportion of ants still not having changed their direction ( trajec...
<p><b>A</b> Proportion of ants in the foraging arena according to the diet (number of ants observed ...
<p>Treatments and sample times are low (triangles) and high (circles) ant attendance treatments samp...
<p>The blue line represents the feeder that had more ants after 5 minutes, the red line the other fe...
<p>The rate of returning foragers was experimentally decreased by removing the returning foragers, l...
<p>A. Frequency distribution of the distance moved by colonies in the Ant Heaven population. B. Colo...
<p>The y axis represents total numbers of marked ants observed passing a point on a trail on a given...
<p>Figs. A and B correspond to the experiments in the big arena, and Figs. C and D to those in the s...
<p>Ant nest abundance and spatial plots of ant nest distributions for all survey years.</p
<p>Objects are uniformly distributed along the border of a 50 cm diameter circular arena. Ants enter...
<p>(A) Mean average difference in the proportions of ants feeding at the two feeders during the whol...
<p>Each column shows the results from one colony on one day. The top row shows the total number of f...
<p>The two dashed lines above and below the curve are the s (the standard error of the mean) of the ...
<p>Treatments and sample times are low (triangles) and high (circles) ant attendance treatments samp...
<p>A) Each bar shows the mean rate of brief antennal contacts, in interactions per second, of ants i...
<p>A) The survival curve of the proportion of ants still not having changed their direction ( trajec...
<p><b>A</b> Proportion of ants in the foraging arena according to the diet (number of ants observed ...
<p>Treatments and sample times are low (triangles) and high (circles) ant attendance treatments samp...
<p>The blue line represents the feeder that had more ants after 5 minutes, the red line the other fe...
<p>The rate of returning foragers was experimentally decreased by removing the returning foragers, l...