Scale-free correlations in starling flocks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 11865-11870

  Cavagna, Andrea ^a,b   Cimarelli, Alessio ^b   Giardina, Irene ^a,b   Parisi, Giorgio ^b,c,d   Santagati, Raffaele ^b   Stefanini, Fabio ^b,e   Viale, Massimiliano ^a,b  

^a ISC CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal groups; Collective behavior; Emergent behavior; Flocking; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HERD; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARLING; VELOCITY;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HOMING BEHAVIOR; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STARLINGS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; STURNIDAE;

EID: 77955363169     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005766107     Document Type: Article

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