Animal personalities or behavioural syndromes are consistent and/or correlated behaviours
across two or more situations within a population. Social insect biologists have measured …

In this review I show that four major kinds of theoretical approaches have been used to
explain the scaling of metabolic rate in cells, organisms and groups of organisms in relation …

Consistent individual variation in animal behaviour is nearly ubiquitous and has important
ecological and evolutionary implications. Additionally, suites of behavioural traits are often …

Methods: A broad spectrum analysis on ant ecology was carried out in the years 1979 to
2015, including 232 study plots in Central Europe within 46.5° N to 54.1° N, 9.3° E to 15.6° E …

Social insect colonies are commonly thought of as highly organized and efficient complex
systems, yet high levels of worker inactivity are common. Although consistently inactive …

Social insect colonies are models for complex systems with sophisticated, efficient, and
robust allocation of workers to necessary tasks. Despite this, it is commonly reported that …

Collectively searching animals might be expected to coordinate with their groupmates to
cover ground more evenly or efficiently than uncoordinated groups. Communication can …

Animal search movements are typically assumed to be mostly random walks, although non-
random elements may be widespread. We tracked ants (Temnothorax rugatulus) in a large …

Central-place foragers must learn the resource and visual landscapes around them when
they are in a new environment, to facilitate efficient foraging and navigation. We investigated …

Trait‐based ecology has surged in recent decades but a framework to assess eusocial taxa,
such as ants and termites, has been left underdeveloped because ecological trait‐based …