Determining asymptotically large population sizes in insect swarms
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Determining asymptotically large population sizes in insect swarms.
Social animals commonly form aggregates that exhibit emergent collective behaviour, with group dynamics that are distinct from the behaviour of individuals. Simple models can qualitatively reproduce such behaviour, but only with large numbers of individuals. But how rapidly do the collective properties of animal aggregations in nature emerge with group size? Here, we study swarms of Chironomus ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of The Royal Society Interface
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1742-5689,1742-5662
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0710