2 papers
q-bio.PE2026
How long versus when: worker mortality synchrony is widespread but decoupled from body size in Australian ants
Alana Moscardi, Rafael da Silva, Gleycon Silva
Colony demographic models often treat worker deaths as independent events, but shared environmental exposure may synchronize mortality within species. Using a 15-month field datase…
q-bio.PE2026
Body size predicts how long ant workers live - but not how they age or how they die from heat
Alana Moscardi, Rafael da Silva, Gleycon Silva
In social insects, mortality risk comprises distinct components that may not share the same predictors: lifespan duration, senescence trajectory, and thermal vulnerability. We test…