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Anna Dornhaus is a researcher affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics.

The main topics addressed in Dornhaus's research include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Insect and Pesticide Research, Diffusion and Search Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Dornhaus has contributed to several publications, with notable recent papers including:

  • Individual and collective cognition in ants and other insects (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), 2024, Myrmecological news/Myrmecologische Nachrichten
  • Ants combine systematic meandering and correlated random walks when searching for unknown resources, 2023, iScience
  • Size variation does not act as insurance in bumble bees; instead, workers add weight in an unpredictable environment, 2020, Animal Behaviour
  • Foraging behavior and extended phenotype independently affect foraging success in spiders, 2020, Behavioral Ecology
  • Brood as booty: the effect of colony size and resource value in social insect contests, 2022, Behavioral Ecology

The venues where Dornhaus frequently publishes include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Insectes Sociaux, Animal Behaviour, and Behavioral Ecology.

Throughout their career, Dornhaus has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, including Gregory T. Chism, Stefan Popp, William C. Nichols, Wiley Faron, and Evan P. Kelemen.

Best Publications

  • Psychophysics: bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy.

    Lars Chittka;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Fiola Bock;Anna Dornhaus;Anna Dornhaus

  • Ecology: a prerequisite for malaria elimination and eradication.

    Heather M. Ferguson;Anna Dornhaus;Arlyne Beeche;Christian Borgemeister

  • Speed versus accuracy in collective decision making.

    Nigel R. Franks;Anna Dornhaus;Jon P. Fitzsimmons;Martin Stevens

  • Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels

    Jennifer M. Jandt;Sarah Bengston;Noa Pinter-Wollman;Jonathan N. Pruitt

  • On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies

    James A. R. Marshall;Rafal Bogacz;Anna Dornhaus;Robert Planqué

  • Temporal dynamics and network analysis

    Benjamin Blonder;Tina W. Wey;Anna Dornhaus;Richard James

  • Why do honey bees dance

    Anna Dornhaus;Lars Chittka

  • Evolutionary origins of bee dances

    A. Dornhaus;L. Chittka

  • Multimodal signals enhance decision making in foraging bumble-bees.

    Ipek G. Kulahci;Anna Dornhaus;Daniel R. Papaj

  • Specialization Does Not Predict Individual Efficiency in an Ant

    Anna Dornhaus

  • Flowers help bees cope with uncertainty: signal detection and the function of floral complexity

    Anne S. Leonard;Anna Dornhaus;Daniel R. Papaj

  • Group Size and Its Effects on Collective Organization

    Anna Dornhaus;Scott Powell;Sarah Bengston

  • Spatial organization and division of labour in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens

    Jennifer M. Jandt;Anna Dornhaus

  • Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model

    Anna Dornhaus;Franziska Klügl;Christoph Oechslein;Frank Puppe

  • Food alert in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): possible mechanisms and evolutionary implications

    Anna Dornhaus;Lars Chittka

  • Ants move to improve: colonies of Leptothorax albipennis emigrate whenever they find a superior nest site

    A. Dornhaus;N.R. Franks;R.M. Hawkins;H.N.S. Shere

  • Adaptation, genetic drift, pleiotropy, and history in the evolution of bee foraging behavior.

    Nigel E. Raine;Thomas C. Ings;Anna Dornhaus;Nehal Saleh

  • How is activity distributed among and within tasks in Temnothorax ants

    Noa Pinter-Wollman;Noa Pinter-Wollman;Julia Hubler;Jo Anne Holley;Jo Anne Holley;Nigel R. Franks

  • Time-ordered networks reveal limitations to information flow in ant colonies.

    Benjamin Blonder;Anna Dornhaus

  • Task-switching costs promote the evolution of division of labor and shifts in individuality

    Heather J. Goldsby;Anna Dornhaus;Benjamin Kerr;Benjamin Kerr;Charles Ofria

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel R. Franks
Nigel R. Franks University of Bristol
Lars Chittka
Lars Chittka Queen Mary University of London
Daniel R. Papaj
Daniel R. Papaj University of Arizona
Radhika Nagpal
Radhika Nagpal Princeton University
Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley
Judith L. Bronstein
Judith L. Bronstein University of Arizona
Andrew Sih
Andrew Sih University of California, Davis
Wulfila Gronenberg
Wulfila Gronenberg University of Arizona
Rafal Bogacz
Rafal Bogacz University of Oxford

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