Self-organized criticality and emergent oscillations in models of termite architecture with crowding

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-27

  O'Toole, D V ^a   Robinson, P A ^a   Myerscough, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEST STRUCTURE; SELF ORGANIZATION; TERMITE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ISOPTERA; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION;

ISOPTERA;

EID: 0037423878     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2003.3047     Document Type: Article

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