Division of labor as a bipartite network

Cristian Pasquaretta, Raphaël Jeanson and Luke HolmanHandling Editor

Behavioral Ecology, 2018, vol. 29, issue 2, 342-352

Abstract: We present metrics developed in community ecology that are relevant to quantify division of labor, which is a recurrent feature of insect societies. Under a network perspective, workers are connected to the tasks they are engaged in and tasks are linked to the workers that perform them. Because workers and tasks belong to different classes, division of labor can be modeled as a bipartite network.

Keywords: division of labor; interaction network; social insects; specialization; task allocation; 2-mode network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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