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Figure 4

From: The evolution of activity breaks in the nest cycle of annual eusocial bees: a model of delayed exponential growth

Figure 4

Influence of the temporal position of short (lasting only for a single time step) activity breaks on relative colony fitness in different scenarios: a) when productivity is not decreased during breaks (c i = c), b) when survival is not increased during breaks (Q = q) and c) when both mechanisms are kept in the model. Model parameters: worker efficiency c = 0.5, off-break survival q = 0.97, development time T = 20, season length L = 100 and within-break survival Q = 1.0.

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