The modelling cycle for collective animal behaviour

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 764-773

  Sumpter, David J T ^a   Mann, Richard P ^a   Perna, Andrea ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collective animal behaviour; Collective motion; Theoretical modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868295143     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2012.0031     Document Type: Review

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