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From Disorder to Order in Marching Locusts
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Recent models from theoretical physics have predicted that mass-migrating animal groups may share group-level properties, irrespective of the type of animals in the group. One key prediction is that as the density of animals in the group increases, a rapid transition occurs from disordered movement of individuals within the group to highly aligned collective motion. Understanding such a transition is crucial to the control of mobile swarming insect pests such as the desert locust. We confirmed the prediction of a rapid transition from disordered to ordered movement and identified a critical density for the onset of coordinated marching in locust nymphs. We also demonstrated a dynamic instability in motion at densities typical of locusts in the field, in which groups can switch direction without external perturbation, potentially facilitating the rapid transfer of directional information.
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- Authors
- Buhl, J., Sumpter, D. J. T., Couzin, I. D., Hale, J. J., Despland, E., Miller, E. R., & Simpson, S. J.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2006-06-02
- Volume
- 312
- Issue
- 5778
- Pages
- 1402-1406
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2097490641
- Cited by
- 1,150
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 49.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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