Nest Enlargement in Leaf-Cutting Ants: Relocated Brood and Fungus Trigger the Excavation of New Chambers

Transitioning from unstable to stable colony growth in the desert leafcutter ant Acromyrmex versicolor

(2013) Rebecca M. Clark et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Sequential Soil Transport and Its Influence on the Spatial Organisation of Collective Digging in Leaf-Cutting Ants

(2013) Steffen Pielström et al.   PLoS One

Vibrational communication in the spatial organization of collective digging in the leaf-cutting ant Atta vollenweideri

(2012) Steffen Pielström et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

AN EVALUATION OF THE POSSIBLE ADAPTIVE FUNCTION OF FUNGAL BROOD COVERING BY ATTINE ANTS

(2012) Sophie A. O. Armitage et al.   EVOLUTION

Ventilation of the giant nests of Atta leaf-cutting ants: does underground circulating air enter the fungus chambers?

(2012) M. Bollazzi et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The determination of nest depth in founding queens of leaf-cutting ants (Atta vollenweideri): idiothetic and temporal control

(2012) K. Frohle et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Morphogenesis of an extended phenotype: four-dimensional ant nest architecture

(2011) N. J. Minter et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Digging effort in leaf-cutting ant queens (Atta sexdens rubropilosa) and its effects on survival and colony growth during the claustral phase

(2010) R. S. Camargo et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Control of nest water losses through building behavior in leaf-cutting ants (Acromyrmex heyeri)

(2010) M. Bollazzi et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Excavated substrate modulates growth instability during nest building in ants

(2010) E. Toffin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New Resolution Independent Measures of Circularity

(2009) Nicola Ritter et al.   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL IMAGING AND VISION

Shape transition during nest digging in ants

(2009) E. Toffin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil temperature, digging behaviour, and the adaptive value of nest depth in South American species of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

(2008) Martin Bollazzi et al.   OECOLOGIA