Dynamics and shape of large fire ant rafts

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 590-597

  Mlot, Nathan J ^a   Tovey, Craig ^b   Hu, David L ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Cooperative; Emergent; Model; Simulation; Social insects; Swarm

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA;

EID: 84869804432     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.21421     Document Type: Article

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