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ReviewInterface focus2012

From behavioural analyses to models of collective motion in fish schools.

Ugo Lopez, Jacques Gautrais, Iain D Couzin, Guy Theraulaz

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Review in Interface focus, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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80 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ugo LopezCentre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, UMR-CNRS 5169 , Université Paul Sabatier , Bât 4R3, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9 , France ; CNRS, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale , 31062 Toulouse , France ; Université de Toulouse, UPS, INPT, LAPLACE (Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d'Energie) , 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9 , France ; CNRS, LAPLACE , 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9 , France.
Jacques Gautrais
Iain D Couzin
Guy Theraulaz

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fish schooling is a phenomenon of long-lasting interest in ethology and ecology, widely spread across taxa and ecological contexts, and has attracted much interest from statistical physics and theoretical biology as a case of self-organized behaviour. One topic of intense interest is the search of specific behavioural mechanisms at stake at the individual level and from which the school properties emerges. This is fundamental for understanding how selective pressure acting at the individual level promotes adaptive properties of schools and in trying to disambiguate functional properties from non-adaptive epiphenomena. Decades of studies on collective motion by means of individual-based modelling have allowed a qualitative understanding of the self-organization processes leading to collective properties at school level, and provided an insight into the behavioural mechanisms that result in coordinated motion. Here, we emphasize a set of paradigmatic modelling assumptions whose validity remains unclear, both from a behavioural point of view and in terms of quantitative agreement between model outcome and empirical data. We advocate for a specific and biologically oriented re-examination of these assumptions through experimental-based behavioural analysis and modelling.

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animal groupscollective behaviourcoordinationfish schoolsindividual-based modelself-organization

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PMID24312723
PMCPMC3499128

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