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| Title |
The modelling cycle for collective animal behaviour
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Interface Focus, August 2012
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| DOI | 10.1098/rsfs.2012.0031 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
David J. T. Sumpter, Richard P. Mann, Andrea Perna |
| Abstract |
Collective animal behaviour is the study of how interactions between individuals produce group level patterns, and why these interactions have evolved. This study has proved itself uniquely interdisciplinary, involving physicists, mathematicians, engineers as well as biologists. Almost all experimental work in this area is related directly or indirectly to mathematical models, with regular movement back and forth between models, experimental data and statistical fitting. In this paper, we describe how the modelling cycle works in the study of collective animal behaviour. We classify studies as addressing questions at different levels or linking different levels, i.e. as local, local to global, global to local or global. We also describe three distinct approaches-theory-driven, data-driven and model selection-to these questions. We show, with reference to our own research on species across different taxa, how we move between these different levels of description and how these various approaches can be applied to link levels together. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 25% |
| Sweden | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 189 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 177 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 47 | 25% |
| Researcher | 27 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 24 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 12% |
| Professor | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 32 | 17% |
| Unknown | 27 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 69 | 37% |
| Computer Science | 15 | 8% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 13 | 7% |
| Mathematics | 12 | 6% |
| Engineering | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 35 | 19% |
| Unknown | 36 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 March 2024.
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#14,184,647
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#348
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#96,752
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#3
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