Figure 2.

Relationship between the relevance (NR) given to the stress of neighbours (meanNSL) and the breeding synchrony of the colony. Synchrony is measured by the standard deviation of the laying dates of all the females of the colony (less standard deviation means more synchrony). Ten simulations were run for each NR; only the mean standard deviation of each of the 10 simulations is shown. Error bars of this mean are not plotted because they fall within the size of the dots. The insets show examples of the histograms found for single simulations run at different values of NR.