Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Mentor/Supervising Professor Name
Keith, Snyder
Description
Harvester ants have an interesting behavior of bone collecting. Therefore, harvester ant nests that are positioned around the fossil sites contain various fossil fragments. If there is a statistically significant correlation between the abundance of fossil fragments and the distance of the ant nests from the main fossil sites, ant nests can potentially be used to predict the proximity of the main fossil sites.
Included in
Entomology Commons, Other Animal Sciences Commons, Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons
Correlation Between Abundance of Fossils in Harvester Ant Nest and Proximity of Fossil Sites
Harvester ants have an interesting behavior of bone collecting. Therefore, harvester ant nests that are positioned around the fossil sites contain various fossil fragments. If there is a statistically significant correlation between the abundance of fossil fragments and the distance of the ant nests from the main fossil sites, ant nests can potentially be used to predict the proximity of the main fossil sites.