Kinetics of aggregate formation in social insects

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2387-2403

  Nicolis, S C ^a,b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation kinetics; Clusters competition; Social insects; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSECT; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSECTS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 34548699389     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-007-9224-y     Document Type: Article

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