Modelling locust foraging: How and why food affects group formation.

Locusts are short horned grasshoppers that exhibit two behaviour types depending on their local population density. These are: solitarious, where they will actively avoid other locusts, and gregarious where they will seek them out. It is in this gregarious state that locusts can form massive and des...

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Main Authors: Fillipe Georgiou, Camille Buhl, J E F Green, Bishnu Lamichhane, Ngamta Thamwattana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008353&type=printable
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