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Emergent dynamics of laboratory insect swarms

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, January 2013
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Title
Emergent dynamics of laboratory insect swarms
Published in
Scientific Reports, January 2013
DOI 10.1038/srep01073
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Authors

Douglas H. Kelley, Nicholas T. Ouellette

Abstract

Collective animal behaviour occurs at nearly every biological size scale, from single-celled organisms to the largest animals on earth. It has long been known that models with simple interaction rules can reproduce qualitative features of this complex behaviour. But determining whether these models accurately capture the biology requires data from real animals, which has historically been difficult to obtain. Here, we report three-dimensional, time-resolved measurements of the positions, velocities, and accelerations of individual insects in laboratory swarms of the midge Chironomus riparius. Even though the swarms do not show an overall polarisation, we find statistical evidence for local clusters of correlated motion. We also show that the swarms display an effective large-scale potential that keeps individuals bound together, and we characterize the shape of this potential. Our results provide quantitative data against which the emergent characteristics of animal aggregation models can be benchmarked.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
Germany 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Unknown 140 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 26%
Researcher 25 16%
Student > Master 22 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 7%
Student > Bachelor 8 5%
Other 22 14%
Unknown 26 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 35 23%
Engineering 29 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 18%
Computer Science 11 7%
Neuroscience 3 2%
Other 11 7%
Unknown 35 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 May 2021.
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#721,593
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#7,918
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#6,665
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#30
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