Publications

Refereed Publications

Franks, N. R., Dornhaus, A., Hitchcock, G., Guillem, R., Hooper, J., Webb, C., 2006. “Avoidance of Conspecific Colonies During Nest Choice by Ants”. Animal Behaviour in press

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N. R., 2006, “Colony size, collective decisions and learning”, Insectes sociaux, in press

Planque, R., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N. R., Kovacs, T., Marshall, J. A. R., 2006, “Weighting waiting in collective decision-making”, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology published online Oct 2006

Dornhaus, A., Collins, E.J., Dechaume-Moncharmont, F.-X., Houston, A., Franks, N.R., McNamara, J., 2006, “Paying for information: partial loads in central place foragers”, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology published online Aug 2006

Franks, N. R., Dornhaus, A., Best, C. S., Jones, E. L., 2006, “Decision-making by small and large house-hunting ant colonies: one size fits all”, Animal Behaviour 72: 611-616

Raine, N. E., Ings, T. C., Dornhaus, A., Saleh, N., Chittka, L., 2006, “Adaptation, genetic drift, pleiotropy, and history in the evolution of bee foraging behavior”, Advances in the Study of Behavior 36: 305-354

Dornhaus, A., Klügl, F., Oechslein, C., Puppe, F., Chittka, L., 2006, “Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: ecology and colony size”, Behavioral Ecology 17: 336-344

Marshall, J. A. R., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N. R., Kovacs, T., 2006, “Noise, cost and speed-accuracy trade-offs: decision making in decentralised systems”, Journal of The Royal Society Interface 3: 243-254

Franks, N. R., Dornhaus, A., Metherell, B. G., Nelson, T. R., Lanfear, S. A. J., Symes, W., 2006, “Not everything that counts can be counted: Ants use multiple metrics for a single nest trait.”, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 273: 165-169

Granero, A. M., Guerra Sanz, J. M., Ega Gonzalez, F. J., Martinez Vidal, J. L., Dornhaus, A., Ghani, J., Serrano, A. R., Chittka, L., 2005, “Chemical compounds of the foraging recruitment pheromone in bumblebees”, Naturwissenschaften 92: 371-374

Dechaume-Moncharmont, F.-X., Dornhaus, A., Houston, A. I., McNamara, J. M., Collins, E. J., Franks, N. R., 2005, “The hidden cost of information in collective foraging”, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 272: 1689-1695

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2005, “A bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) stores both food and information in honeypots”, Behavioral Ecology 16: 661-666

Franks, N. R., Hooper, J., Webb, C., Dornhaus, A., 2005, “Tomb evaders: house-hunting hygiene in ants”, Biology Letters 1: 190-192

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2004, “Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees”, Apidologie 35: 183-192, DOI: 10.1051/apido:2004002

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2004, “Why do honey bees dance?”, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55: 395-401, DOI 10.1007/s00265-003-0726-9

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N.R., Hawkins, R.M., Shere, H.N.S., 2004, “Ants move to improve – colonies of Leptothorax albipennis emigrate whenever they find a superior nest site”, Animal Behaviour 67: 959-963, DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.09.004

Franks, N.R., Dornhaus, A., Fitzsimmons, J.P., Stevens, M., 2003, “Speed vs. Accuracy in Collective Decision-Making”, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 270: 2457-2463, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2527

Chittka, L., Dyer, A., Bock, F., Dornhaus, A., 2003, “Bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy”, Nature 424: 388

Franks, N.R., Dornhaus, A., 2003, “How might individual honeybees measure massive volumes?”, Proceedings B: Biology Letters 270 (Supplement 2): 181-182, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0047

Dornhaus, A., Brockmann, A., Chittka, L., 2003, “Bumble bees alert to food with pheromone from tergal gland”, Journal of Comparative Physiology A 189: 47-51, DOI 10.1007/s00359-002-0374-y

Dornhaus, A., Cameron, S., 2003, “Alertment in Bombus transversalis”, Apidologie 34: 87-88

Dornhaus, A., 2002, “When do dances make a difference? Significance of honey bee recruitment depending on foraging distance”, Entomologia Generalis 26: 93-100

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L.,2001, “Food alert in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): possible mechanisms and evolutionary implications”, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50: 570-576, DOI 10.1007/s002650100395

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L.,1999, “Evolutionary origins of bee dances”, Nature 401: 38, DOI 10.1038/43372

Chittka, L., Dornhaus, A., 1999, “Comparisons in physiology and evolution, and why bees can do the things they do”, Ciencia al Dia International 2: No. 2, ISSN 0717-3849 (http://www.ciencia.cl/CienciaAlDia/volumen2/numero2/articulos/articulo5-eng.html)

Conference contributions

Sendova-Franks, A. and Dornhaus, A., 2006, Symposium organisation “Collective and individual intelligence” IUSSI (International Union for the Study of Social Insects) Washington, USA

Dornhaus, A., 2004, “Information flow and organisation of foraging in social bees”, EurBee, Udine. Italy

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., 2004, “Group size and collective decisions in ants”, INSECTS, Helsingor, Denmark

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., 2004, “Group size and collective decisions in ant house-hunting”, ISBE, Jyväskylä, Finland

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., 2004, “Group decisions with speed or accuracy in ants”, DZG, Rostock, Germany

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., 2003, “Rules of decision-making: trade-offs in collective house-hunting”, Mathematics and Algorithms in Social Insects 2nd Workshop, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA

Dornhaus, A., Kluegl, F., Oechslein, C., Puppe, F., 2003, “Foraging success, recruitment benefits and spatial resource distribution”, Mathematics and Algorithms in Social Insects 2nd Workshop, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA

Kluegl, F., Triebig, C., Dornhaus, A., 2003, “Studying Task Allocation Mechanisms of Social Insects For Engineering Multi-Agent Systems”, Mathematics and Algorithms in Social Insects 2nd Workshop, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., 2003, “Rules of decision-making: trade-offs in collective house-hunting”, Evolvability Symposium, London, UK

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., 2003, “Individual and collective decisions: how large and small colonies of ants choose a new home” IUSSI (German section) Meeting, Regensburg, Germany

Dornhaus, A., 2003, “Honey pots as information stores in bumble bees”, DZG, Berlin, Germany

Dornhaus, A., Franks, N., Fitzsimmons, J., Stevens, M., 2003, “Ants choose to take their time when making decisions”, INSECTS: TMR-Network meeting Laufen, Germany

Marshall, J.A.R., Kovacs, T., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N.R., “Simulating the Evolution of Ant Behaviour in Evaluating New Nest Sites”, ECAL 2003 (conference paper)

James A. R. Marshall, Tim Kovacs, Anna R. Dornhaus and Nigel R. Franks. “Simulating the Evolution of Ant Behaviour in Evaluating Nest Sites”. Proceedings of the 2003 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-03), pages 254-258. Jonathan M. Rossiter and Trevor P. Martin (Eds.). ISBN: 0862925371

Dornhaus, A., 2002, “Information gathering at home: how bumble bees prepare for foraging”, ASAB Winter Meeting, London, UK

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2002, “Why do honey bees dance?”, IUSSI (British Section) Meeting, London, UK

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2002, “Information exchange in bumble bees - pheromones for food alert”, in: ASAB Spring conference, Bristol, UK

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2002, “When do dances make a difference? Communication and ecology in honey bees”, in: First European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Münster, Germany – p23

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2002, “The bumblebees’ ways of information management”, in: 95th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (German Zoological Society), Halle/Saale, Germany - Zoology (Jena) 105 (Supplement 5): 80

Kluegl, F., Oechslein, C., Puppe, F., Dornhaus, A., 2002, “Multi-agent modelling in comparison to standard modelling”, in: F.J.Barros and F. Giambiasi (eds), “Proceedings of the AIS2002 (AI, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems), Lisbon, Portugal”, SCS Publishing, San Diego, pp. 105-110

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2001, “Direction Communication in the Waggle Dance - an Adaptation to the Tropics?”, in: XXVII International Ethological Conference, Tübingen, Germany - Advances in Ethology 36: 144

Streit, S., Tautz, J., Fuchs, S., Puppe, F., Kluegl, F., Dornhaus, A., Eggelbusch, K., 2001, “Modelling the dynamics of spread and virulence of Varroa destructor in a honey bee population using SeSAm (Shell for Simulated Agent Systems)”, in: Proceedings of the EuroConference on Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Tolerance in Honeybees, Prague, Czech Republic

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 2000, “The significance of the dance language to honeybee recruitment”, in: EU TMR Network Workshop Social Evolution, Pratolino, Firenze, Italy – p34

Dornhaus, A., 2000, “Communication about food sources in social bees – a matter of survival?”, in: Biologica Symposium “Communication: a matter of survival”, Wageningen, Netherlands – p22

Dornhaus, A., 1999, “The communication and recruitment system in bumblebees – an ancestral „dance language“ ?”, in: Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (German Zoological Society), Innsbruck, Austria - Zoology (Jena) 102 (Supplement II, Abstracts 92.1): 27

Dornhaus, A., Hartmann, F., Chittka, L., 1999, “A window into the past: what bumblebees tell us about Cretaceous dances”, in: Göttingen Neurobiology Report 1999, Proceedings of the 1st Göttingen Conference of the German Neuroscience Society 1999, Volume II, 27th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, N. Elsner, U. Eysel (eds.), p557, Thieme Verlag Stuttgart

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 1999, “Communication about food sources in bumblebees”, in: EU TMR Network Workshop Social Insects as Model Systems, Losehill Hall, Castleton, UK – p11

Dornhaus, A., Chittka, L., 1999, “New communication system in bumble bees”, in: IUSSI Maating (Deutschsprachige Sektion) Hohenheim, Germany, “Soziale Insekten”, P. Rosenkranz, C. Garrido (eds.) – p29

Fuchs, S., Dornhaus, A., Hager, R., Klügl, F., Puppe, F., Tautz, J., 1999, “A parasite - host simulation perspective on virulence in Varroa jacobsoni”, in: IUSSI Adelaide – p175

Chapman, M.J., Dornhaus, A., Margulis, L., 1998, “The Gunnera-Nostoc Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiotic Consortium”, Endocytobiosis & Cell Res. 13: 154a, Supplement - Endocytobiology VII

Dornhaus, A., Klügl, F., Puppe, F., Tautz, J., 1998, “Task selection in honeybees - experiments using multi-agent simulation”, in: 3rd German Workshop on Artificial Life, C. Wilke, S. Altmeyer, T. Martinez (eds.), p171-183, Verlag Harri Deutsch (conference paper)

Book review

Weidenmüller, A., Schikora, J., Dornhaus, A., Spaethe, J., Kleineidam, C., 1999, " 'Cognitive Ecology: The Evolutionary Ecology of Information Processing and Decision Making' Edited by Reuven Dukas", Animal Behaviour 58: 455-456