Impact of Interference Competition on Exploration and Food Exploitation in the Ant Lasius niger
Figure 1
Mean flow of workers exiting the nest per minute for the different phases of the experiment and the different colonies (Exp 1 = first exploration phase, Conf = confrontation phase, Exp 2 = second exploration phase, Expl = food exploitation phase) and the different colonies (C1, C2, C3). replicates per colony.
