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Anna Dornhaus

Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Professor, Neuroscience | Professor, Psychology | Professor, Neuroscience - GIDP | Professor, BIO5 Institute | Professor, Entomology / Insect Science - GIDP | Professor, Cognitive Science - GIDP | Member of the Graduate Faculty

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Collaboration(10)

Sudha Ram
Ronald Breiger
Judith Bronstein
Ryan Gutenkunst
Goggy Davidowitz

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Grants(9)

Managing Emergent Behavior of Interacting Autonomous Systems
2018·$284.1K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
emergent behavior, autonomous systems, interacting systems, managing behavior, emergent systems
Studying Insect Collective Behavior as a Model for Distributed Computing (WAESO)
2018·$461·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
insect behavior, distributed computing, collective behavior, modeling, computer science
Collaborative Research: ABI Development: A User-Friendly Tool for Highly Accurate Video Tracking
2016·$206.8K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
video tracking, software development, collaborative research, user interface design, biological imaging
Managing Emergent Behavior of Interacting Autonomous Systems
2016·$48K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
autonomous systems, emergent behavior, interacting systems, management, behavioral dynamics
BCSP: The Emergence of Inactivity: Adaptive Task Allocation in Complex Distributed Systems, or Why Are There So Many Lazy Ants?
2015·$695K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
adaptive task allocation, complex distributed systems, inactivity, emergence, ants

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Publications(114)

Recent

Brood as booty: the effect of colony size and resource value in social insect contests

2022

social insects, colony size, resource value, contest, effect

Social pseudoscorpion nest architecture provides direct benefits to groumembers and rivals the efficiency of honey bees

2022

animal behavior, nest architecture, social insects, cooperation, competition

How Can We Fully Realize the Potential of Mathematical and Biological Models to Reintegrate Biology?

2021

mathematical models, biological models, integration, biology, potential

Size variation does not act as insurance in bumble bees; instead, workers add weight in an unpredictable environment

2020

bumble bees, size variation, worker behavior, environmental unpredictability, weight addition

Foraging behavior and extended phenotype independently affect foraging success in spiders

2020

foraging behavior, extended phenotype, spiders, foraging success, behavioral ecology

Bringing down the house: male widow spiders reduce the webs of aggressive females more

2019

spider behavior, sexual conflict, web reduction, mating behavior, aggressive females

Juvenile social experience generates differences in behavioral variation but not averages.

2019

social behavior, juvenile development, behavioral variation, social experience, animal behavior

Metabolic rate predicts the lifeof workers in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens

2019

metabolism, insect behavior, life expectancy, ecology, pollination

Author response: Signal categorization by foraging animals depends on ecological diversity

2019

animal behavior, ecological diversity, foraging behavior, signal categorization, ecology

Ants in isolation: obstacles to testing worker responses to task stimuli outside of the colony context

2019

ant behavior, task stimuli, social insects, behavioral ecology, animal cognition