ArticlePLoS computational biology2012
Intermittent motion in desert locusts: behavioural complexity in simple environments.
Article in PLoS computational biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
49 citing papers in PubMed.
- Stochastic modeling of long-legged ant A. gracilipes locomotion in laboratory experiments.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Nesting strategy reflects individual worker movement in termites.Movement ecology · 2025Article
- Two modes in the absolute velocity statistics in cautious walks of laboratory rodents.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- Collective Behavior in Medaka Fish Depends on Discrete Kinematic States of Swimming Behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The visual stimuli attributes instrumental for collective-motion-related decision-making in locusts.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Revealing the mechanism and function underlying pairwise temporal coupling in collective motion.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Pausing to swarm: locust intermittent motion is instrumental for swarming-related visual processing.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Article
- Article
- Intermittent and temporally variable bioturbation by some terrestrial invertebrates: implications for ichnology.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2023Article
- Predicting age and mass at maturity from feeding behavior and diet inEcology and evolution · 2023Article
- Visual processing and collective motion-related decision-making in desert locusts.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Article
- Efficient Lévy walks in virtual human foraging.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Lévy Walk in Swarm Models Based on Bayesian and Inverse Bayesian Inference.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2021Article
- An insight on Drosophila myogenesis and its assessment techniques.Molecular biology reports · 2020Review
- Quantifying flight aptitude variation in wild Anopheles gambiae in order to identify long-distance migrants.Malaria journal · 2020Article
- Post-contact immobility and half-lives that save lives.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Four-Types of IIT-Induced Group Integrity ofEntropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Agent-based and continuous models of hopper bands for the Australian plague locust: How resource consumption mediates pulse formation and geometry.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Animals can exhibit complex movement patterns that may be the result of interactions with their environment or may be directly the mechanism by which their behaviour is governed. In order to understand the drivers of these patterns we examine the movement behaviour of individual desert locusts in a homogenous experimental arena with minimal external cues. Locust motion is intermittent and we reveal that as pauses become longer, the probability that a locust changes direction from its previous direction of travel increases. Long pauses (of greater than 100 s) can be considered reorientation bouts, while shorter pauses (of less than 6 s) appear to act as periods of resting between displacements. We observe power-law behaviour in the distribution of move and pause lengths of over 1.5 orders of magnitude. While Lévy features do exist, locusts' movement patterns are more fully described by considering moves, pauses and turns in combination. Further analysis reveals that these combinations give rise to two behavioural modes that are organized in time: local search behaviour (long exploratory pauses with short moves) and relocation behaviour (long displacement moves with shorter resting pauses). These findings offer a new perspective on how complex animal movement patterns emerge in nature.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.