caa a22 4500 477067387 CHVBK 20180405111416.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02460593 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02460593 A mathematical model for the population dynamics of army ants [Elektronische Daten] [N. Britton, L. Partridge, N. Franks] A stochastic cellular automata model for the population dynamics of the army antEciton burchelli on Barro Colorado Island in Panama is set up. It is simulated on the computer and shown to give good agreement with biological data. It is analysed using two approximations akin to the mean field approximation in statistical mechanics, and good agreement with the simulations is obtained. Finally, the role of distance between successive statary phase bivouacs is discussed with regard to the rate of colony growth. There are two aspects of the biological system studied here that make it of general importance. First, the population is structured, since the size of each colony of army ants is crucial. Second, the spatial behaviour of the population, as in many others, is not diffusion-like, although it is random. This has implications for the kind of model that is chosen. Society for Mathematical Biology, 1996 Britton N. Centre for Mathematical Biology and School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK aut Partridge L. School of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK aut Franks N. Centre for Mathematical Biology and School of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK aut Bulletin of Mathematical Biology Kluwer Academic Publishers 58/3(1996-05-01), 471-492 0092-8240 58:3<471 1996 58 11538 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02460593 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02460593 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Britton N. Centre for Mathematical Biology and School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Partridge L. School of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Franks N. Centre for Mathematical Biology and School of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Bulletin of Mathematical Biology Kluwer Academic Publishers 58/3(1996-05-01), 471-492 0092-8240 58:3<471 1996 58 11538 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer