Theoretical and empirical perspectives on the scaling of supply and demand in social insect colonies

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

(2013) Matina C. Donaldson-Matasci et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies

(2013) Deborah M. Gordon   NATURE

Upper Thermal Limits of Insects Are Not the Result of Insufficient Oxygen Delivery

(2013) Marshall D. McCue et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

How Do Organs Know When They Have Reached the Right Size?

(2013) G. Vogel   SCIENCE

Towards a general life-history model of the superorganism: predicting the survival, growth and reproduction of ant societies

(2012) J. Z. Shik et al.   Biology Letters

Larger laboratory colonies consume proportionally less energy and have lower per capita brood production in Temnothorax ants

(2012) T. T. Cao et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The repeatability of metabolic rate declines with time

(2012) C. R. White et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Plant defense, herbivory, and the growth of Cordia alliodora trees and their symbiotic Azteca ant colonies

(2012) Elizabeth G. Pringle et al.   OECOLOGIA

Supply-Side Constraints Are Insufficient to Explain the Ontogenetic Scaling of Metabolic Rate in the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta

(2012) Viviane Callier et al.   PLoS One

Information Processing in Social Insect Networks

(2012) James S. Waters et al.   PLoS One

Allometric scaling of foraging rate with trail dimensions in leaf-cutting ants

(2012) A. I. Bruce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Physiological regulatory networks: ecological roles and evolutionary constraints

(2012) Alan A. Cohen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Group Size and Its Effects on Collective Organization

(2011) Anna Dornhaus et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Division of labor increases with colony size in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

(2011) C. Tate Holbrook et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Energy, taxonomic aggregation, and the geography of ant abundance

(2011) Michael Kaspari et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Discontinuous gas exchange: new perspectives on evolutionary origins and ecological implications

(2011) Steven L. Chown   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The energetics of running stability: costs of transport in grass-cutting ants depend on fragment shape

(2011) K. Moll et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Symmorphosis and the insect respiratory system: allometric variation

(2011) E. P. Snelling et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The effect of individual variation on the structure and function of interaction networks in harvester ants

(2011) N. Pinter-Wollman et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Information Needs at the Beginning of Foraging: Grass-Cutting Ants Trade Off Load Size for a Faster Return to the Nest

(2011) Martin Bollazzi et al.   PLoS One

Allometric Scaling of Metabolism, Growth, and Activity in Whole Colonies of the Seed‐Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

(2010) James S. Waters et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The metabolic costs of building ant colonies from variably sized subunits

(2010) Jonathan Z. Shik   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Quantifying social synergy in insect and human societies

(2010) Klaus Jaffe   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Macronutrient Regulation in the Tropical Terrestrial Ant Ectatomma ruidum (Formicidae): A Field Study in Costa Rica

(2010) Steven C. Cook et al.   BIOTROPICA

More food, less habitat: how necromass and leaf litter decomposition combine to regulate a litter ant community

(2010) JONATHAN Z. SHIK et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Size-abundance relationships in Florida ant communities reveal how ants break the energetic equivalence rule

(2010) JOSHUA R. KING   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

The influence of social hunger on food distribution and its implications for disease transmission in a honeybee colony

(2010) C. Feigenbaum et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Foraging grass-cutting ants (Atta vollenweideri) maintain stability by balancing their loads with controlled head movements

(2010) Karin Moll et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Global metabolic impacts of recent climate warming

(2010) Michael E. Dillon et al.   NATURE

Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects

(2010) Chen Hou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Atmospheric oxygen level and the evolution of insect body size

(2010) J. F. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Insect Rate‐Temperature Relationships: Environmental Variation and the Metabolic Theory of Ecology

(2009) Ulrike M. Irlich et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Structure and resilience of the social network in an insect colony as a function of colony size

(2009) Dhruba Naug   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Animal Behaviour: Feeding the Superorganism

(2009) Spencer T. Behmer   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Communal Nutrition in Ants

(2009) Audrey Dussutour et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evaluating scaling models in biology using hierarchical Bayesian approaches

(2009) Charles A. Price et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Activity affects intraspecific body-size scaling of metabolic rate in ectothermic animals

(2009) Douglas Stewart Glazier   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Metabolic function in Drosophila melanogaster in response to hypoxia and pure oxygen

(2009) W. A. Van Voorhies   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Critical oxygen partial pressures and maximal tracheal conductances for Drosophila melanogaster reared for multiple generations in hypoxia or hyperoxia

(2009) C. Jaco Klok et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Tracheal remodelling in response to hypoxia

(2009) Lazaro Centanin et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Feeding and Stocking Up: Radio-Labelled Food Reveals Exchange Patterns in Ants

(2009) Aurélie Buffin et al.   PLoS One

Sodium shortage as a constraint on the carbon cycle in an inland tropical rainforest

(2009) M. Kaspari et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why “Suboptimal” Is Optimal: Jensen’s Inequality and Ectotherm Thermal Preferences

(2008) Tara Laine Martin et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Does Foraging Activity Affect Foraging Success in the Western Harvester Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)?

(2008) Blaine J. Cole et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Influence of the social context on division of labor in ant foundress associations

(2008) Raphaël Jeanson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making

(2008) Elva J. H. Robinson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Structure of the social network and its influence on transmission dynamics in a honeybee colony

(2008) Dhruba Naug   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Food limitation in the fungus-gardening ant,Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

(2008) JON N. SEAL et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Thermoregulatory brood transport in the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta

(2008) C. A. Penick et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Mating for variety increases foraging activity in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

(2008) DIANE C. WIERNASZ et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

On the biogeography of salt limitation: A study of ant communities

(2008) M. Kaspari et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metabolic theory or metabolic models?

(2008) Carlos Martínez del Rio   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Specialization Does Not Predict Individual Efficiency in an Ant

(2008) Anna Dornhaus   PLOS BIOLOGY

Sizing Up Allometric Scaling Theory

(2008) Van M. Savage et al.   PLoS Computational Biology