Sentence examples for central nest from inspiring English sources

Long passageways extend outwards from this central nest to foraging sites where worker termites collect food for the colony.

One may argue, that artificial landscapes were not truly risk uniform in their distance to safety, i.e. either central nest box or the arena wall.

Non-parasitic bumblebees (like other non-parasitic bee species) provision their broods by central place foraging, which means they gather pollen and nectar from flowers in the surrounding area and bring it back to a central nest.

In a 9 m2 indoor arena covered with dry sand we offered 25 food patches (15 cm diameter, 0.2 g millet/0.4 l sand) in a 5×5 grid with 40 cm distance, and a central nest box.

We therefore analysed the proportional use of the 9 patches near the central nest (their preference would be indicated by proportional values >1) in relation to the 16 patches closer to the arena walls (their preference would be indicated by proportional values <1).

The analysis indicated that central-periphery gradients of distribution (high-quality individuals occupying central nesting locations) prevail in species breeding in homogeneous habitats.

Central nests are also likely to be less accessible to predators, although this may largely depend on the type of predator (Brunton 1997).

Since homogeneous habitats provide little variation in the physical quality of nest sites, central nesting locations should be largely preferred because they give better protection against predators by means of more efficient predator detection and deterrence.

However, in general, there is large empirical support that colonial birds dilute the risk of predation (Brown and Brown 2001) and that central nesting sites are by far the most efficiently protected sites against predators.

It has been suggested that if the fitness benefits of nesting in sites of good physical quality considerably exceeds benefits associated with the central nesting position, then high-quality pairs may choose the best available nesting sites independently of their location in a colony (Velando and Freire 2001).

Tofts and Franks proposed that the apparent pattern of temporal polyethism was an artifact of young bees moving out of the central brood nest toward the periphery of the hive in search of tasks to perform, rather than the consequence of an innate behavioral pacer as is demonstrated by the data presented here.