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● The capacity to find resources is crucial for individuals fitness. To locate them, they can
use two types of information: personal and social.1
●Our biological model, bumblebees, can use both types.
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●The IBM models pollinators’ daily foraging in a given environment. Pollinators face a partially unknown
environment and compete with conspecifics. Their ability to use different types of information will
change their movement and their foraging efficiency.
●The resource is described by the abundance and the aggregation of flowers.
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The success of each pollinator is measured at
the end of the simulation by:
●Nectar quantity collected
●Number of flowers visited%: success (ie, the
bumblebee gets some nectar) & fails (ie, the
bumblebee probe a flower without nectar)
●Distance covered
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The temporal variation, agregation and the diversity of the flowers will favor the individuals with a high use social information
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Laboratoire Écologie, Systématique et Évolution%; Université Paris Saclay (France)
Contact%: elise.verrier@u-psud.fr @EliseVerrier
Personal information%:
●Physical habitat
●Resources location
Social Information%:
●Localisation cues
●Signals communication
●Public information (Performance)
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●Learning capacity to the Bumblebees, which can change their trap-line
●More flowers species, with different nectar capacity and regeneration
●Possibility to copy the fellows (social information)
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●Invariable Trap-line, a
localisations' sequence
●Nectar quantity
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●Nectar quantity
●Presence or not of pollinator's sent
mark on the corolla
●Localisation on the map
Probability to do some exploration,
make a random move (Wrandom)
Probability to move to a detected
flower, using visual information
(Wvisual)
Probability to avoid a fellow,
move to opposite direction than
fellow (Wsocial)
Probability to follow its trap-line,
using private information (Wprivate)
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1Danchin, E., Giraldeau, L. A., Valone, T. J., & Wagner, R. H.
(2004). Public information: from nosy neighbors to cultural
evolution. Science, 305(5683), 487-491.