A quantitative narrative on movement, disease and patch exploitation in nesting agent groups

Wayne M. Getz; Richard Salter; Krti Tallam

The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. . https://doi.org/10.1101/791400 doi: bioRxiv preprint Comparative occupation-history measure: Prefer cells less used by other colonies 517 Under our renumbering c γ,δ i ,m+1 (t) is cell i's γ, δ's memory state with regard to 518 the occupation history of agents from colonies m = 1, ..., M in this cell. For cells 519 i = 2, ..., K, this quantity is based on a comparison of the largest occupation 520 history value (in cell i) of c γ,δ i ,m (t) for all m = 1, ..., M in comparison with the 521 occupation history value of agent α in cell i. Recalling that agent α is from colony 522 ) then, for i = 1, ...., K, First, we determine for all cells which individuals occupying each cell stay or move, and 531 then, we compute changes in the resource states of the cells, as well as the fitness that 532 individuals gain or lose from consuming resources due to movement activity.