Coupled oscillators and activity waves in ant colonies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1417, 1999, Pages 371-378

  Boi, S ^a,c   Couzin, I D ^b   Del Buono, N ^a   Franks, N R ^b   Britton, N F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activity cycles; Ants; Coupled oscillators; Image analysis; Mathematical model; Social insects

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ANT; COLONY; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PERIODICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; LEPTOTHORAX ACERVORUM;

EID: 0033593959     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0647     Document Type: Article

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