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List of works by Anna Dornhaus

A scientific note on food alert in Bombus transversalis

Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior

Ambient Air Temperature Does Not Predict whether Small or Large Workers Forage in Bumble Bees (Bombus impatiens).

scientific article published on January 2010

Ants under crowded conditions consume more energy

scientific article published in December 2008

Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model

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Bigger is better: honeybee colonies as distributed information-gathering systems

scientific article published in March 2013

Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) store both food and information in honeypots

scientific article published in 2005

Chemical compounds of the foraging recruitment pheromone in bumblebees.

scientific article published in August 2005

Costs of task allocation with local feedback: Effects of colony size and extra workers in social insects and other multi-agent systems.

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Dance communication affects consistency, but not breadth, of resource use in pollen-foraging honey bees

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Ecology: a prerequisite for malaria elimination and eradication

scientific article (publication date: 3 August 2010)

Floral nectar guide patterns discourage nectar robbing by bumble bees

scientific article (published 2013-01-01)

Floral signal complexity as a possible adaptation to environmental variability: a test using nectar-foraging bumblebees, Bombus impatiens

scientific article published on 02 February 2012

Flowers help bees cope with uncertainty: signal detection and the function of floral complexity

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Food alert in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): possible mechanisms and evolutionary implications

scientific article published in 2001

Foraging Bumble Bees Weigh the Reliability of Personal and Social Information.

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

Group size and its effects on collective organization

scientific article published on 02 September 2011

Guard bees are more likely to act as undertakers: variation in corpse removal in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

How Can We Fully Realize the Potential of Mathematical and Biological Models to Reintegrate Biology?

scientific article published in 2021

How cognitive biases select for imperfect mimicry: a study of asymmetry in learning with bumblebees

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

How habitat affects the benefits of communication in collectively foraging honey bees

scientific article published in April 2012

How might individual honeybees measure massive volumes?

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp.)

Juvenile social experience generates differences in behavioral variation but not averages

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Location, location, location: larvae position inside the nest is correlated with adult body size in worker bumble-bees (Bombus impatiens).

scientific article published in April 2009

Metabolic rate predicts the lifespan of workers in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Multimodal signals enhance decision making in foraging bumble-bees.

scientific article published in April 2008

Noise, cost and speed-accuracy trade-offs: decision-making in a decentralized system

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Not everything that counts can be counted: ants use multiple metrics for a single nest trait

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On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Ontogeny of worker body size distribution in bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) colonies

scientific article published on August 2010

Percent lipid is associated with body size but not task in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

Peripheral sensory organs vary among ant workers but variation does not predict division of labor

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

Predation risk makes bees reject rewarding flowers and reduce foraging activity

article published in 2011

Psychophysics: bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy.

scientific article published in July 2003

Quitting time: When do honey bee foragers decide to stop foraging on natural resources?

scientific article published in 2015

Reconnaissance and latent learning in ants.

scientific article published in June 2007

Sampling and tracking a changing environment: persistence and reward in the foraging decisions of bumblebees

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Signal categorization by foraging animals depends on ecological diversity

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

Significance of Honeybee Recruitment Strategies Depending on Foraging Distance (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apis mellifera)

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Spatial organization and division of labour in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens

scientific article published on 11 January 2009

Specialization does not predict individual efficiency in an ant.

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Speed versus accuracy in collective decision making.

scientific article published in December 2003

Task switching is associated with temporal delays in Temnothorax rugatulus ants

scientific article published on 29 November 2016

Task-switching costs promote the evolution of division of labor and shifts in individuality

scientific article (publication date: 21 August 2012)

Temnothorax rugatulus ant colonies consistently vary in nest structure across time and context

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The function of polydomy: the ant Crematogaster torosa preferentially forms new nests near food sources and fortifies outstations

scientific article published in 2010

The hidden cost of information in collective foraging.

scientific article published in August 2005

The trail less traveled: individual decision-making and its effect on group behavior

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Time-ordered networks reveal limitations to information flow in ant colonies

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Tomb evaders: house-hunting hygiene in ants

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Weak specialization of workers inside a bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) nest

scientific article published on 25 June 2009

Who Are the "Lazy" Ants? The Function of Inactivity in Social Insects and a Possible Role of Constraint: Inactive Ants Are Corpulent and May Be Young and/or Selfish

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Who needs 'lazy' workers? Inactive workers act as a 'reserve' labor force replacing active workers, but inactive workers are not replaced when they are removed

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Why do honey bees dance?

scientific article published in 2004