Resilience in social insect infrastructure systems

Rapid behavioral maturation accelerates failure of stressed honey bee colonies

(2015) Clint J. Perry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Death of the bee hive: understanding the failure of an insect society

(2015) Andrew B Barron   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Collective exploitation of a temporally unpredictable food source: mushroom harvesting by the ant Euprenolepis procera

(2014) Christoph von Beeren et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Ants build transportation networks that optimize cost and efficiency at the expense of robustness

(2014) Guénaël Cabanes et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

‘Lazy’ in nature: ant colony time budgets show high ‘inactivity’ in the field as well as in the lab

(2014) D. Charbonneau et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Animal transportation networks

(2014) A. Perna et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Keeping track of changes: the performance of ant colonies in dynamic environments

(2013) Tanya Latty et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

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

Efficiency and robustness of ant colony transportation networks

(2013) Zoe Cook et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Review on modeling and simulation of interdependent critical infrastructure systems

(2013) Min Ouyang   RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY

A metric and frameworks for resilience analysis of engineered and infrastructure systems

(2013) Royce Francis et al.   RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY

How dancing honey bees keep track of changes: the role of inspector bees

(2012) Boris Granovskiy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual- and colony-level traits in bees

(2012) Richard J. Gill et al.   NATURE

The Ecology of Nest Movement in Social Insects

(2011) Terrence P. McGlynn   Annual Review of Entomology

Adaptive capacity and its assessment

(2011) Nathan L. Engle   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Convergent evolution of levee building behavior among distantly related ant species in a floodplain ant assemblage

(2011) E. G. LeBrun et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Resilience: the concept, a literature review and future directions

(2011) Ran Bhamra et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH

Structure and formation of ant transportation networks

(2011) T. Latty et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

A resilience assessment framework for infrastructure and economic systems: Quantitative and qualitative resilience analysis of petrochemical supply chains to a hurricane

(2011) Eric D. Vugrin et al.   PROCESS SAFETY PROGRESS

Moving pictures of the human microbiome

(2011) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Decision making in ant foragers (Lasius niger) facing conflicting private and social information

(2010) Christoph Grüter et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

(2010) Michele C. Lanan et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A secure decentralized data-centric information infrastructure for smart grid

(2010) Young-Jin Kim et al.   IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE

Optimisation in a natural system: Argentine ants solve the Towers of Hanoi

(2010) C. R. Reid et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Maternity of emergency queens in the Cape honey bee, Apis mellifera capensis

(2010) MICHAEL J. HOLMES et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Complex networks: The fragility of interdependency

(2010) Alessandro Vespignani   NATURE

Benefits of Dispersed Central‐Place Foraging: An Individual‐Based Model of a Polydomous Ant Colony

(2009) Amelie Schmolke   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Emergency networking: famine relief in ant colonies

(2009) Ana B. Sendova-Franks et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Colony-level macronutrient regulation in ants: mechanisms, hoarding and associated costs

(2009) Steven C. Cook et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

(2009) Dhruba Naug   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Interpreting transnational infrastructure vulnerability: European blackout and the historical dynamics of transnational electricity governance

(2009) Erik van der Vleuten et al.   ENERGY POLICY

The role of multiple pheromones in food recruitment by ants

(2009) A. Dussutour et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Priority rules govern the organization of traffic on foraging trails under crowding conditions in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica

(2009) A. Dussutour et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Fungus Gardens of Leaf-Cutter Ants

(2009) A. A. Pinto-Tomas et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2008) Dhruba Naug   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Cascading failure and robustness in metabolic networks

(2008) A. G. Smart et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA