ant.dew: Ant honeydew data
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Ant honeydew data
Description
Wright et al. (2000) examined behavior of red wood ants (Formica rufa), a species that harvests honeydew in aphids.
Worker ants traveled from their nests to nearby trees to forage honeydew from homopterans. Ants descending trees were laden with food and weighed more, given a particular ant head width, then unladen, ascending ants.
The authors were interested in comparing regression parameters of the ascending and descending ants to create a predictive model of honeydew foraging load for a given ant size.
Usage
data(ant.dew)
Format
A data frame with 72 observations on the following 3 variables.
head.widthAnt head width in mm
ant.massAnt mass in mg
directionDirection of travel A = ascending, D = descending
Details
Data approximated from Fig. 1 in Wright et al. (2002)
Source
Wright, P. J., Bonser, R., and U. O. Chukwu (2000) The size-distance relationship in the
wood ant Formica rufa. Ecological Entomology 25(2): 226-233.
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Ant honeydew data
Description
Wright et al. (2000) examined behavior of red wood ants (Formica rufa), a species that harvests honeydew in aphids. Worker ants traveled from their nests to nearby trees to forage honeydew from homopterans. Ants descending trees were laden with food and weighed more, given a particular ant head width, then unladen, ascending ants. The authors were interested in comparing regression parameters of the ascending and descending ants to create a predictive model of honeydew foraging load for a given ant size.
Usage
data(ant.dew)Format
A data frame with 72 observations on the following 3 variables.
head.widthAnt head width in mm
ant.massAnt mass in mg
directionDirection of travel
A= ascending,D= descending
Details
Data approximated from Fig. 1 in Wright et al. (2002)
Source
Wright, P. J., Bonser, R., and U. O. Chukwu (2000) The size-distance relationship in the wood ant Formica rufa. Ecological Entomology 25(2): 226-233.
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