Social networks improve leaderless group navigation by facilitating long-distance communication

Current Zoology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 329-341

  Bode, Nikolai W F ^a,b   Wood, A Jamie ^b   Franks, Daniel W ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective motion; Group navigation; Individual based model; Many wrongs principle; Network motifs; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877779596     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/58.2.329     Document Type: Article

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