From disorder to order in marching locusts

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5778, 2006, Pages 1402-1406

  Buhl, J ^a,b   Sumpter, D J T ^a   Couzin, I D ^a,c   Hale, J J ^a   Despland, E ^a,d   Miller, E R ^a   Simpson, S J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STABILITY;

ANIMAL GROUPS; CRITICAL DENSITY; MOBILE SWARMING INSECT PESTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

LOCUST; MIGRATION; PEST SPECIES; SWARMING;

ARTICLE; INSECT SWARM; LOCUST; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; GRASSHOPPERS; MASS BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 33744821647     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125142     Document Type: Article

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