白蚁的感知、交通与建筑
Sensing, Traffic, and Construction in Termites
AI总结：
综述白蚁在颗粒状基质中的活动，涵盖工蚁搜索挖掘时的感知、交通在狭窄通道中的流动、挖掘沉积对基质的重塑等问题，强调实验成果、证据情况及新工具作用，推动白蚁群体定量生命物理学框架发展。
AI中文摘要：
地下白蚁和筑丘白蚁在相同的颗粒状基质中挖掘、运输和建造，该基质随后会调节它们的感知、移动和物质沉积方式。从触角尺度的接触到身体尺度的交通再到米尺度的建筑，本文综述了三个相关问题：工蚁在搜索和挖掘过程中如何感知局部几何形状和物理线索；交通如何在狭窄且不断演变的通道中流动；挖掘和沉积如何重塑引导后续行为的基质。在这些长度尺度上，嘈杂的局部相互作用通过共享的物质介质将感知、运输和建筑联系起来，在蚁群尺度上产生涌现秩序。我们强调了实验已证实的内容、证据稀少或仅限于少数模型系统的地方，以及新兴的成像、跟踪和建模工具如何使这些反馈能够被定量获取。我们利用这种综合方法来推动一个用于白蚁群体的定量生命物理学框架，该框架不断重写它们感知、移动和建造所通过的介质。
英文摘要：
Subterranean and mound-building termites excavate, transport, and build within the same granular substrate that later regulates how they sense, move, and deposit material. From antennal-scale contacts through body-scale traffic to meter-scale architecture, this review synthesizes three linked problems: how workers sense local geometry and physical cues during search and excavation; how traffic moves through narrow, evolving conduits; and how excavation and deposition remodel the substrate that guides later behavior. Across these length scales, noisy local interactions couple sensing, transport, and construction through a shared material medium, leading to emergent order at the colony scale. We emphasize what is established experimentally, where evidence remains sparse or limited to a few model systems, and how emerging imaging, tracking, and modeling tools are making these feedbacks quantitatively accessible. We use this synthesis to motivate a quantitative physics-of-life framework for termite colonies that continually rewrite the medium through which they sense, move, and build.
