DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4b92t21
title: Data from: Sources of intraspecific variation in the collective tempo and synchrony of ant societies

description: Populations of independently oscillating agents can sometimes synchronize.
 In the context of animal societies, conspicuous synchronization of
 activity is known in some social insects. However, the causes of variation
 in synchrony within and between species have received little attention. We
 repeatedly assessed the short-term activity cycle of ant colonies
 (Temnothorax rugatulus) and monitored the movements of individual workers
 and queens within nests. We detected persistent differences between
 colonies in the waveform properties of their collective activity
 oscillations, with some colonies consistently oscillating much more
 erratically than others. We further demonstrate that colony crowding
 reduces the rhythmicity (i.e., the consistent timing) of oscillations.
 Workers in both erratic and rhythmic colonies spend less time active than
 completely isolated workers, but workers in erratic colonies oscillate out
 of phase with one another. We further show that the queen’s absence can
 impair the ability of colonies to synchronize worker activity and that
 behavioral differences between queens are linked with the waveform
 properties of their societies.
description: <i>Doering_et_al_2019_Temnothorax_all_time</i>_<i>series</i>_<i>scores</i> - Contains time series traits for all 108 colony-level activity time series from experiment 1. The reason for duplicated values in the column "Period_wavelet" are discussed in the published SI methods of the paper.   <i>worker_removal</i> – Contains time series traits for 6 colonies before and after a random worker was removed from each colony.   <i>Queen_removal</i> – Contains time series traits for 6 colonies before and after their respective queens were removed from each colony.   <i>innest_queen_transition_9hr.csv </i>–<i> </i>The proportion of time spent active<i> </i>and<i> </i>transition probabilities from active to inactive and vice versa for queens while inside their nests when measured for 9-hours. The colony each queen belonged to was classified as either erratic or rhythmic. The colony-level time series traits from each recording where queens were tracked are also included.   <i>innest_queen_transition_2hr.csv </i>-<i> </i>The proportion of time spent active<i> </i>and<i> </i>transition probabilities from active to inactive and vice versa for queens while inside their nests when measured for 2-hours. The colony each queen belonged to was classified as either erratic or rhythmic.   <i>innest_worker_transition.csv - </i>The proportion of time spent active<i> </i>and<i> </i>transition probabilities from active to inactive and vice versa for workers while inside their nests with other workers.   <i>experiment2_isolated_queens.csv - </i>The proportion of time spent active<i> </i>and<i> </i>transition probabilities from active to inactive and vice versa for 6 queens sourced from 6 separate colonies while isolated.   <i>experiment2_isolated_workers.csv - </i>The proportion of time spent active<i> </i>and<i> </i>transition probabilities from active to inactive and vice versa for 6 workers sourced from 6 separate colonies while isolated.   <i>Average_waveform_traits_Temnothorax </i>- The averages for the 6 waveform traits of the 18 colonies used in the experiment. Brood and worker counts for each colony are also included.