Sentence examples for colony performance from inspiring English sources
Under individual selection, the ability to produce visual signals resulted in the evolution of deceptive communication strategies in colonies of unrelated robots and a concomitant decrease in colony performance.
The presence of pollutants in honey can influence honey bee colony performance and devalue its use for human consumption.
This improves colony performance.
These results contrast strongly with the results for colony performance (Figure 1).
Previous work has demonstrated that individual differences in response thresholds to social cues can optimize colony performance [8], [26], [27].
A similar discrepancy between individual and colony performance has been reported for the aphid Cepegillettea betulaefoliae [29].
Because food gathering consumes both time and energy, one could a priori expect a trade-off between time spent collecting on one side, and time used for information transfer on the other side, if colony foraging performance is enhanced through communication, even at the expense of a reduced individual foraging performance.
Since bumblebee colonies produce males and new queens in proportion to the amount of food available to them [19] [21], we can use colony foraging performance as a robust measure of colony fitness.
Our results imply that information about available nest sites is continually gathered by exploring individuals while the nest is still intact, then retrieved and shared among scouts during emigrations so as to affect the whole colony's performance.
Our approach explores intercolony variation of floral colour bias, a heritable foraging related trait [22], within a natural population to measure the extent to which such sensory biases can be regarded as adaptive, i.e. improving the colony foraging performance in their natural environment.
Beth Grant won as best actress in a drama for "Grace and Glorie". Of the many memorable performances we have seen in 22 years as Colony subscribers, her performance was the most memorable.
