Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: GABRYELLY MONYQUE MACHADO

Effects of space geometry on confined termite walking

random walks, diffusion, nests, dimensions

Foraging is often understood as a biological search process where the objects being searched can be considered target sites. We can quantitatively describe the efficiency in locating randomly spread target sites using random walk ideas. The movement patterns generated by these random walks in different geometries will be analyzed directly through filming, which is converted to generate data necessary for analysis through statistical physics. The movement is the main mechanism by which animals interact with the environment, these movements generate very complex space-time patterns, so we will use termites of the genus Cornitermes spp., for the sake of practicality and availability, also considering that they are social insects, who live organized in groups, interacting with each other, in a harmonic ecological relationship called society.