Quorum sensing by encounter rates in the ant Temnothorax albipennis

Agriculture & Biology

• Temnothorax 100%
• quorum sensing 75%
• Formicidae 55%
• nests 42%
• Leptothorax 14%
• ant nests 11%
• ant colonies 11%
• nesting sites 9%
• shortenings 9%
• decision making 9%
• species recruitment 8%
• duration 5%
• monitoring 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• encounter rate 88%
• ant 74%
• nest 53%
• nest site 9%
• decision making 5%
• rate 4%
• detection 4%
• monitoring 3%