Vincent Fourcassié

The paper re-analyzes ant movement data to show that black garden ants use directional information in their search behavior, leading to biased random walks that improve search efficiency.

The study finds that larger ants in Messor barbarus are more sensitive to temperature changes than smaller ants, which may influence their foraging activity timing and colony responses to warming.

This study analyzes the thermal profiles of termite nests using rasterization and the heat equation to show how nest architecture buffers temperature fluctuations and maintains stable internal conditions.