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| adam_text | TERTIARY LEVEL BIOLOGY
The Behavioural Ecology
of Ants
JOHN H JHJDD
University of Hull
and
NIGEL R FRANKS
University of Bath
Blackie
Glasgow and London
Published in the USA by
•• •- Chapman and Hall
New York
Contents
INTRODUCTION viii
Chapter 1 SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AS A SELFISH STRATEGY 1
1 1 Kin selection 2
1 2 Inclusive fitness and sex ratios 4
121 -Multiple queens S
122 Multiple mating 5
123 Male production by workers 5
1 3 Parental care and manipulation 7
1 4 The evolution of polygyny 8
141 Secondary polygyny 12
142 Polygyny as a form of parasitism 17
143 The behaviour of polygynous queens 18
144 Oligogyny 19
1 5 Dominance hierarchies in workers 19
1 6 Cooperation and competition 22
Chapter 2 THE PHYLOGENY OF ANTS 24
2 1 The origin of ants 24
211 The ant family tree 24
212A Mesozoic fossil ant 26
213A living fossil ant 28
214 Adaptation to liquid feeding 29
2 2 The subfamilies of ants 31
221 Myrmeciinae 31
222 Ponerinae 32
223 Dorylinae 32
224 Pseudomyrmecinae 33
225 Myrmicinae 33
226 Dolichoderinae 37
227 Formicinae 38
228 Further reading 39
Chapter 3 ANT ECONOMICS 40
3 1 Economies of scale , :* ^ 41
311 The colony-founding stage - 41
312 The ergonomic stage 1 41
VI CONTENTS
313 The reproductive stage 43
3 2 Colony life-history strategies 43
321 The schedule of growth, investment and reproduction 43
322 Knowing when to split 46
3 3 The flow of resources within the colony SO
331 Food exchange between workers 50
332 The flow of food to larvae 51
333 The course of food flow in the society 53
3 4 Nest construction 55
341 Benefits of the nest structure 56
342 Nest-excavation techniques 57
343 Above-ground nest structures 58
344 Import of special materials for nests 60
345 Compounding special materials for nests 61
Chapter 4 WHO DOES WHAT, AND WHEN? 65
4 1 How ants are employed: how many tasks are performed in ant
colonies? 66
4 2 Temporal polyethism: production lines based on an age-based
division of labour 69
421 Caste systems 71
422 Task allocation 74
423 Adaptive demography and caste efficiency 75
4 3 Conflicts over the division of labour 75
431A morphological division of labour in monomorphic ants 77
4 4 Physical castes 79
441 Allometry as a developmental constraint on caste evolution 80
4 5 The economics of caste ratios 84
451 Time and motion studies 87
452 Case study: the ergonomics of leaf-cutter ants 87
,4 5 3 Case study: the ergonomics of foraging in army ants 91
4 6 Caste ratios and social homeostasis 94
Chapter 5 COMMUNICATION 98
5 1 Ant signals and language 98
5 2 Recognition of nestmates 100
5 3 Pheromonal communication 106
531 Alarm pheromones 107
532 Multiple pheromones 108
5 4 Communication in recruitment 111
541 Simple cooperative hunting 112
542 Group recruitment 113
543 Mass recruitment 113
5 5 Sex pheromones 116
551 Queen pheromones 116
552 Other sexual pheromones 117
Chapter 6 ANTS AS PARTNERS 120
6 1 Ants in the ecological community 121
6 2 Ants and plants « 121
621 Ants and extrafloral nectaries 122
622 Ants as allelopathic agents of trees 123
623 Transport of seeds by ants * 124
CONTENTS vii
624 Ant gardens 125
625 Ants and epiphytes 125
6 3 Ants and other insects 126
631 Ants and aphids 127
632 Ants and Lepidoptera 131
6 4 The cost-benefit balance in mutualism 133
Chapter 7 ANTS EXPLOITING ANTS 137
7 1 Types of exploitation 137
711 Mugger ants 137
712 Claim-jumpers 138
713 Thief ants 138
714 Guest ants 139
7 2 The temporary and permanent parasitic ants 140
721 Infiltration by parasitic queens 140
722 Temporary parasites 142
7 3 The evolution of inquilines 143
731 The ultimate cuckoo ants 146
7 4 Slavery 149
741 Amazon ants 149
742 The tiny slave-makers 151
743 Imprinting and slave-making 153
744 The evolution of slave-making 154
745 Are slave-makers degenerate? 158
Chapter 8 ANT ECOLOGY 161
8 1 Competition 162
8 2 Economics of territorial defence 168
8 3 Foraging for the most profitable prey 176
8 4 Ants as predators and prey: army ant foraging ecology 179
REFERENCES 188
INDEX 200
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