Daniel Charbonneau

Workers ‘specialized’ on inactivity: Behavioral consistency of inactive workers and their role in task allocation

Daniel Charbonneau, Anna Dornhaus · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 2015 · 102 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +11

Who needs ‘lazy’ workers? Inactive workers act as a ‘reserve’ labor force replacing active workers, but inactive workers are not replaced when they are removed

Daniel Charbonneau, Takao Sasaki, Anna Dornhaus · PLoS ONE · 2017 · 76 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Zoology +12

When doing nothing is something. How task allocation strategies compromise between flexibility, efficiency, and inactive agents

Daniel Charbonneau, Anna Dornhaus · Journal of Bioeconomics · 2015 · 58 citations

Social Sciences, Decision Sciences, Behavioral Economics +13

‘Lazy’ in nature: ant colony time budgets show high ‘inactivity’ in the field as well as in the lab

Daniel Charbonneau, Neil Hillis, Anna Dornhaus · Insectes Sociaux · 2014 · 58 citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Animal Behavior +4

Who Are the “Lazy” Ants? The Function of Inactivity in Social Insects and a Possible Role of Constraint: Inactive Ants Are Corpulent and May Be Young and/or Selfish

Daniel Charbonneau, Corey Poff, Hoan Nguyen et al. · Integrative and Comparative Biology · 2017 · 46 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +15