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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 24.
Published in final edited form as: Ecol Modell. 2018 May 24;376:15–27. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.02.010

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Colony sizes of 5000 simulations at two different time points one year apart in the control scenario as a function of two primary sensitive parameters: queen strength and forager lifespan. Queen strength is the primary determinant of colony size, initial queen strengths of 1 or 2 rarely have viable colony sizes, but interactions between queen strengths of 3–5 and high average forager lifespans allow for stronger colonies.