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Publications (2006-2011)

 

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2011

  • Bernadou, A., Espadaler, X., Dos-Reis, V., Fourcassié, V. 2011. Effect of substrate roughness on load selection in the seed-harvester ants Messor barbarus L. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65: 1763-1771.
  • Dejean A., Lachaud J.P. 2011. The hunting behavior of the African ponerine ant Pachycondyla pachyderma. Behavioral Processes, 86: 169-173.
  • Oliveira, P.S., Camargo, R.X., Fourcassié, V. 2011. Nesting patterns, ecological correlates of polygyny and social organization in the Neotropical arboreal ant Odontomachus hastatus (Formicidae: Ponerinae). Insectes Sociaux, 58: 207-217.
  • Lenoir, J.C., Lachaud, J.P., Nettel, A., Fresneau, D. Poteaux, C. 2011. The role of microgynes in the reproductive strategy of the neotropical ant Ectatomma ruidum. Naturwissenschaften, 98: 347-356.
  • Moreau, M., Arrufat, P., Latil, G. & Jeanson, R. 2011. Use of radio-tagging to map spatial organization and social interactions in insects. Journal of Experimental Biology, 214: 17-21.
  • Moussaïd, M., Helbing, D. & Theraulaz, G. 2011. How simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasters. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences USA, 108: 6884-6888.
  • Nicolis S. C.; Dussutour A. 2011. Resource exploitation strategies in the presence of traffic between food sources. Biosystems, 103: 73-78.
  • Perez-Lachaud, G., Valenzuela, J.E., Lachaud, J.P. 2011. Is increased resistance to parasitism at the origin of polygyny in a mexican population of the ant Ectatomma tuberculatum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)? Florida Entomologist, 94: 677-684.
  • Pillot, M.-H., Gautrais, J., Arrufat, P., Couzin, I.D., Bon, R. & Deneubourg, J.-L. 2011. Scalable rules for coherent group motion in a gregarious vertebrate. PloS ONE, 6 :e14487.

 

 

2010

  • Bernadou, A., Galkowski, C., Le Goff, A., Fourcassié, V. & Espadaler, X. 2010. First record of Lasius paralienus SEIFERT, 1992 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from France and Andorra. Myrmecological News, 13: 111-113.
  • Degond, P., Navoret, L., Bon, R. & Sanchez, D. 2010. Congestion in a Macroscopic Model of Self-driven Particles Modeling Gregariousness. Journal of Statistical Physics, 138 : 85-125.
  • Dussutour, A. , Latty, T., Beekman, M., & Simpson, S.J. 2010. Amoeboid organism solves complex nutritional challenges. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences USA, 10: 4607-4611
  • Fourcassié, V., Dussutour, A., & Deneubourg, J.L. 2010. Ant traffic management. Journal of Experimental Biology: 213: 2357-2363.
  • Gautrais, J. 2010. The hidden variables of leadership. Behavioural Processes, 84: 664-667.
  • Michelena, P., Jeanson, R., Deneubourg, J.L., & Sibbald, A.M. 2010. Personality and collective decision-making in foraging herbivores. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 277: 1093-1099.
  • Navoret, L., Bon, R., Degond, P., Gautrais, J., Sanchez, D. & Theraulaz, G. 2010. Analogies Between Social Interaction Models and Supply Chains. Mathematics in Industry, 15: 535-540.
  • Petit, O. & Bon, R. 2010. Decision-making processes: The case of collective movements. Behavioural Processes, 84 : 635-647.
  • Moussaïd, M., Perozo, N., Garnier, S., Helbing, D., & Theraulaz, G. 2010. The walking behaviour of pedestrian social groups and its impact on crowd dynamics. PLoS ONE, 5: e10047.
  • Pillot, M.-H., Gautrais, J., Gouello, J., Michelena, P., Sibbald, A. & Bon, R. 2010. Moving together : incidental leaders and naïve followers. Behavioural Processes, 83 : 235-241.

 

2009

 

  • Canonge, S., Sempo, G., Jeanson, R., Detrain, C. & Deneubourg, J.L. 2009. Self-amplification as a source of interindividual variability: Shelter selection in cockroaches. Journal of Insect Physiology, 55: 976-982.
  • Dussutour, A. & Simpson, S.J. 2009. Communal nutrition in ants. Current Biology, 19: 740-744.
  • Dussutour A., Beekman M., Nicolis S.C and Meyer B. Noise improve collective decision-making by ants in dynamic environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B (in press)
  • Dussutour, A., Beshers, S., Deneubourg, J.L. & Fourcassié, V. 2009. Priority rules govern the organization of traffic on foraging trails in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Experimental Biology, 212: 499-505.
  • Dussutour A., Nicolis S.C, Shephard, G, Beekman M. & Sumpter D.J.T. 2009. The role of multiple pheromones in food recruitment by ants. The journal of Experimental Biology, 212: 2337-2348.
  • Dussutour, A., Deneubourg, J.L., Beshers, S. & Fourcassié, V. 2009. Individual and collective problem-solving in a foraging context in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica. Animal Cognition, 12: 21-30.
  • Fureix, C., Pagès, M., Bon, R., Lassalle, J.-M., Kuntz, P. & Gonzalez, G. 2009) A preliminary study of the effects of handling type on horses’ emotional reactivity and the human–horse relationship. Behavioural Processes, 82: 202-210.
  • Garnier, S. Gautrais, J., Asadpour, M., Jost, C. & Theraulaz, G. 2009. Self-organized aggregation triggers collective decision-making in a group of cockroach-like robots. Adaptive Behaviour, 17: 109-133.
  • Garnier, S., Guérécheau, A., Combe, M., Fourcassié, V. & Theraulaz, G. 2009. Path selection and foraging efficiency in Argentine ant transport networks. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 63: 1167-1179.
  • Gautrais, J., Jost, C., Soria, M., Campo, A., Motsch, S., Fournier, R., Blanco, S. & Theraulaz, G. 2009. Analyzing Fish Movement as a Persistent TurningWalker. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 58: 429-445.
  • Holbrock, C.T., Clark, R.M., Jeanson, R., Bertram, S.M., Kukuk, P.F. & Fewell, J.H. 2009. Emergence and consequences of division of labour in forced associations of the normally solitary halictine bee Lasioglossum (Ctenonomia) NDA-1. Ethology. 115: 301-310.
  • Lachaud, J.-P. & Pérez-Lachaud, G. 2009. Impact of natural parasitism by two eucharitid wasps on a potential biocontrol agent ant in southeastern Mexico. Biological Control, 48: 92-99.
  • Moussaïd, M., Garnier, S., Theraulaz, G. & Helbing, D. 2009. Collective information processing in swarms, flocks and crowds. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1: 469–497
  • Moussaïd, M. Helbing, D., Garnier, S., Johansson, A., Combe, M. & Theraulaz, G. 2009. Experimental study of the behavioural mechanisms underlying self-organization in human crowds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 276: 2755–2762.
  • Pérez-Lachaud G., López-Méndez J.A., Beugnon G., Winterton P. & Lachaud J.-P. High prevalence but relatively low impact of two eucharitid parasitoids attacking the Neotropical ant Ectatomma tuberculatum (Olivier). Biological Control (in press).
  • Petit, O., Gautrais, J., Leca, J.-B., Theraulaz, G. & Deneubourg, J.-L. Collective decision-making in white-faced capucin monkeys. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 276: 3495-3503.
  • Santamaría C., Armbrecht I. & Lachaud J.-P. 2009. Nest distribution and food preferences of Ectatomma ruidum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in shaded and open cattle pastures of Colombia. Sociobiology, 53: 517-541.
  • Simpson, S.J., Raubenheimer, D., Charleston, M.A., Clissold, F.J., Couzin, I.D., Clements, K.D., Coleman, R.A., Dussutour, A., Foley, W., Forbey, J., Glaze, E., Gordon, I.J., Hanan, J., Hochuli, D., Kearney, M.R., McArthur, C., Poore, A.G.B., Sword, G.A. & Wallis, I.R. Modelling nutritional interactions: from individuals to communities, Trends in Ecology and Evolution (in press)
  • Valverde, S., Bernat Corominas-Murtra, B., Perna, A., Kuntz, P., Theraulaz, G. & Solé, R.V. 2009. Percolation in Insect Nest Networks: Evidence For Optimal Wiring. Physical Review E, 79: 066106.

 

2009 - Book Chapters

 

  • Beekman M. & Dussutour A. 2009. How to tell your mates costs and benefits of different recruitment mechanisms. In Food Exploitation by Social Insect: Ecological, Behavioural and Theoretical Approaches (S. Jaran & M. Hrncir eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 115-134.
  • Jeanson, R. & Deneubourg, J.L. 2009. Positive feedbacks, convergent collective patterns and social transitions in arthropods. In: Organization of Insect Societies: From Genome to Socio-Complexity (Ed by J. Gadau & J.H. Fewell). Harvard University Press. Harvard, pp. 460-482.

 

2008

 

  • Bernadou, A. & Fourcassié, V. 2008 Does substrate coarseness matter for foraging ants? An experiment with Lasius niger (Hymenoptera; Formicidae). Journal of Insect Physiology, 54: 534-542.
  • Casellas, E., Gautrais, J., Fournier, R., Blanco, S., Combe, M., Fourcassié, F., Theraulaz, G. & Jost, C. 2008. From individual to collective displacements in heterogenous environments, Journal of theoretical Biology, 250: 424-434.
  • Dussutour, A. & Simpson, S.J. 2008. Description of a simple synthetic diet for studying nutritional responses in ants. Insectes Sociaux, 55: 329-333.
  • Dussutour, A & Simpson, S.J. 2008. Carbohydrate regulation in relation to colony growth in ants. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211: 2224-2232.
  • Dussutour, A., Nicolis, S.C. Despland, E. & Simpson,S.J. 2008. Individual differences influence collective behaviour in social caterpillars. Animal Behaviour, 76: 5-16.
  • Garnier, S., Jost, C., Gautrais, J., Asadpour, M., Caprari, G., Jeanson, R., Grimal, A. & Theraulaz, G. 2008. The Embodiment of Cockroach Aggregation Behaviour in a Group of Micro-Robots, Artificial Life, 14: 387–408.
  • Gautrais, J., Jost, C. & Theraulaz, G. 2008. Key behavioural factors in a self-organised fish school model, Annales Zoologici Fennici, 45: 415–428.
  • Gerbier, G., Garnier, S., Rieu, C., Theraulaz, G. & Fourcassié, V. 2008. Are ants sensitive to the geometry of tunnel bifurcation? Animal Cognition, 11: 637–642.
  • Jeanson, R. & Fewell, J.H. 2008. Influence of the social context on division of labour in ant foundress associations. Behavioural Ecology, 19: 567-574.
  • Jeanson, R., Clark, R.M., Holbrock, C.T., Bertram, S.M., Fewell, J.H. & Kukuk, P.F. 2008. Division of labour and socially-induced changes in response thresholds in associations of solitary halictine bees. Animal Behaviour. 76: 593-602.
  • Meyer, B., Beekman, M. & Dussutour, A. 2008. Noise-induced Adaptive Decision-Making in Ant-Foraging. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5040: 415-425.
  • Michelena, P., Gautrais, J., Gerard, J.F., Bon, R. & Deneubourg, J.L. 2008. Social cohesion in groups of sheep: Effect of activity level, sex composition and group size. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 112: 81-93.
  • Nicolis, S.C., Despland, E. & Dussutour, A. 2008. Collective decision-making and behavioural polymorphism in group living organisms. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 254: 580-586.
  • Nicolis, S. & Dussutour, A. 2008. Self-organization, collective decision making and source exploitation strategies in social insects. The European Physical Journal B, 65: 379-385.
  • van de Koppel, J., Gascoigne, J.C., Theraulaz, G., Rietkerk, M., Mooij, W.M. & Herman, P.M.J. 2008. Experimental evidence for spatial self-organization and its emergent effects in ecosystems. Science, 322: 739-742.
  • Perna, A., Jost, C., Douady, S., Couturier, E., Valverde, S. & Theraulaz, G. 2008. Quantitative analysis of Cubitermes spp. nests by X-ray tomography: a tool to address functional nest properties, Naturwissenschaften, 95: 877-884.
  • Perna, A., Jost, C., Valverde, S., Gautrais, J., Theraulaz, G. & Kuntz, P. 2008. The topological fortress of termites. Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, 5151: 165-173.
  • Perna, A., Valverde, S., Gautrais, J., Jost, C., Solé, R.V., Kuntz, P. & Theraulaz, G. 2008. Topological Efficiency in Three-dimensional Gallery Networks of Termite Nests. Physica A, 387: 6235–6244.

 

2007

 

  • Colasurdo, N., Dussutour, A. & Despland E. 2007. Food protein and carbohydrate content influence the pattern of feeding and the tendency to explore of forest tent caterpillars. Journal of Insect Physiology 53: 1160-1168.
  • Crampe, J.P., Bon, R., Gerard, J.F., Serrano, E., Caens, P., Florence, E. & Gonzalez, G. 2007. Site fidelity, migratory behaviour and spatial organization of isard (Rupicapra pyrenaica) females in the Pyrenees National Park, France. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 85: 16-25.
  • Dussutour, A., Despland, E., Simpson, S.J. & Colasurdo, N. 2007. When the group denies individual nutritional wisdom. Animal Behaviour, 74: 931-939.
  • Dussutour, A., Beshers, S., Deneubourg, J.L. & Fourcassié, V. 2007. Crowding increases foraging efficiency in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica. Insectes Sociaux, 54: 168-165.
  • Garnier, S., Gautrais, J. & Theraulaz, G. 2007. The biological principles of swarm intelligence, Swarm Intelligence, 1: 3-31.
  • Gautrais, J., Michelena, P., Sibbald, A., Bon, R. & Deneubourg, J.L. 2007. Allelomimetic synchronization in Merino sheep. Animal Behaviour, 74: 1443-1454.
  • Jeanson, R. & Deneubourg, J. L. 2007. Conspecific attraction and shelter selection in gregarious insects. American Naturalist, 170: 47-58.
  • Jeanson, R., Fewell, J.H., Gorelick, R. & Bertram, S.M. 2007. Emergence of division of labour as a function of group size. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 62: 289-298.
  • Jost, C., Verret, J., Casellas, E., Gautrais, J., Challet, M., Lluc, J., Blanco, S., Clifton, MJ. & Theraulaz, G. 2007. The interplay between a self-organized process and an environmental template: corpse clustering under the influence of air currents in ants. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 4: 107-116.

 

2007 - Book chapters

 

  • Garnier, S., Tâche, F., Combe, M., Grimal, A., Theraulaz, G. 2007 Alice in pheromone land: An experimental setup for the study of ant-like robots. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, SIS 2007, pp. 37-44.
  • Fourcassié, V. Comment les fourmis évitent les embouteillages. In: Voir l’invisible. Sous la direction de J.P. Gex. Edition Omniscience, Paris.

 

2006

 

  • Buhl, J., Gautrais, J., Deneubourg, J.-L., Kuntz, P., Theraulaz, G. 2006. The growth and form of tunnelling networks in ants. Journal of theoretical Biology. 243: 287-298.
  • Buhl, J., Gautrais, J., Reeves, N., Solé, R.V., Valverde, S., Kuntz, P., Theraulaz, G. 2006. Topological patterns in street networks of self-organized urban settlements. European Physical Journal B, 49: 513-522.
  • Dussutour, A., Nicolis, S.C., Deneubourg, J.L. & Fourcassié, V. 2006. Collective decision in ants under crowded conditions. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 61: 17-30.
  • Jeanson, R. & Deneubourg, J.L. 2006. Path selection in cockroaches. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209: 4768-4775.
  • Michelena, P., Noël, S., Gautrais, J., Gerard, J.F., Porter, R.H., Deneubourg, J.L. & Bon, R. 2006. Sexual dimorphism, activity budget and synchrony in groups of sheep. Oecologia, 148: 170–180.
  • Peters, K., Johansson, A., Dussutour, A., & Helbing, D. 2006. Analytical and numerical investigation of ant behaviour under crowded conditions. Advances in Complex Systems, 9: 337-352.
  • Valverde, S, Theraulaz, G, Gautrais, J, Fourcassié, V, Solé, R.V. 2006. Self-organization patterns in wasp and open source communities. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21: 36-40.
  • Vittori, K., Talbot, G., Gautrais, J., Fourcassié, V., Araujo, A.F.R., Theraulaz, G. 2006. Path efficiency of ant foraging trails in an artificial network. Journal of theoretical Biology, 239: 507-515.

 

2006 - Book Chapters

 

  • Dussutour A., Colasurdo N., Nicolis S.C. and Despland E. 2006. How do ants and social caterpillars collectively make decisions? In Cognitive Decision-Making : Empirical and Foundational Issues. (Ed. B. Hardy-Vallee) Cambridge Scholar Press Ltd, Newcastle, pp. 48-65.
  • Cezilly, F., Giraldeau, L.-A. & Theraulaz, G. 2006. Les sociétés animales : lions, fourmis et ouistitis. Editions le Pommier, Paris
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