Optimizing multivariate behavioural syndrome models in locusts using automated video tracking

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 771-784

  Cullen, Darron A ^a   Sword, Gregory A ^a,b   Simpson, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australian plague locust; Behavioural modelling; Behavioural syndrome; Chortoicetes terminifera; Density dependent; Locust phase polyphenism; Logistic regression; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GRASSHOPPER; OPTIMIZATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIDEOGRAPHY; WILD POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA;

CHORTOICETES TERMINIFERA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 84866936390     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.06.031     Document Type: Article

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