Some causes of the variable shape of flocks of birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Hemelrijk, Charlotte K ^a   Hildenbrandt, Hanno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STARLING; ANIMAL; FLYING; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AVES; COLUMBA LIVIA; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 79961141723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022479     Document Type: Article

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