Diffusion of individual birds in starling flocks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1756, 2013, Pages

  Cavagna, A ^a,b   Duarte Queiros S M ^a   Giardina, I ^a,b   Stefanini, F ^c   Viale, M ^a,b  

^a ISC CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Collective behaviour; Diffusion; Self organization

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; DIFFUSION; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; PASSERINE; SELF ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 84969179530     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2484     Document Type: Article

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