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	Author	Naug, D.
	Title	Structure and resilience of the social network in an insect colony as a function of colony size			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	Abbreviated Journal	Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.
	Volume	63	Issue	7	Pages	1023-1028-1028
	Keywords	Biomedical and Life Sciences
	Abstract	Social interactions are critical to the organization of worker activities in insect colonies and their consequent ecological success. The structure of this interaction network is therefore crucial to our understanding of colony organization and functioning. In this paper, I study the properties of the interaction network in the colonies of the social wasp Ropalidia marginata. I find that the network is characterized by a uniform connectivity among individuals with increasing heterogeneity as colonies become larger. Important network parameters are found to be correlated with colony size and I investigate how this is reflected in the organization of work in colonies of different sizes. Finally, I test the resilience of these interaction networks by experimental removal of individuals from the colony and discuss the structural properties of the network that are related to resilience in a social network.
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin / Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN	0340-5443	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	5213
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