Data from: Allometric scaling of metabolism is linked to colony aggressiveness in ants

These data are supplementary to a study entitled: "Allometric scaling of metabolism is linked to colony aggressiveness in ants". These data describe metabolic rates and behavior (aggressiveness) in ant colonies across size. The majority of scaling relationships are established on solitary organisms, but metabolism also scales allometrically with colony size in eusocial insect societies. One possible parameter that may affect metabolism in social insect colonies, is a colony’s collective behavioral phenotype. These data were collected to assess metabolic scaling relationships in whole ant colonies and relate their metabolic performance to between-colony differences in collective aggressiveness. Specifically, the data were used to determine metabolic scaling relationships in aggressive and docile ant colonies, and estimate the size-independent multi-trait metabolic costs of collective aggressiveness.

本数据集为一篇题为《蚂蚁代谢异速生长缩放（allometric scaling）与蚁群攻击性的关联》的研究的补充数据。本数据集记录了不同体型蚁群的代谢速率与行为（攻击性）特征。当前绝大多数尺度关系研究均以独居生物体（solitary organism）为研究对象，但在真社会性昆虫（eusocial insect）类群中，代谢速率同样会随蚁群体型呈现异速生长缩放现象。蚁群的集体行为表型，可能是影响社会性昆虫蚁群代谢水平的潜在参数之一。本数据集的采集旨在探究完整蚁群的代谢尺度关系，并建立蚁群代谢表现与不同蚁群集体攻击性差异之间的关联。具体而言，本数据集被用于明确攻击性与温顺型蚁群的代谢尺度关系，并估算出不依赖体型的集体攻击性多性状代谢成本。