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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2022

Statistical analysis reveals the onset of synchrony in sparse swarms of

Raphaël Sarfati, Laura Gaudette, Joseph M Cicero, Orit Peleg

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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4 authors.

Raphaël SarfatiBioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4944-0632
Laura GaudetteMcGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8106-1811
Joseph M CiceroNo affiliation.ORCID 0000-0002-6847-3897
Orit PelegBioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9481-7967

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flash synchrony within firefly swarms is an elegant but elusive manifestation of collective animal behaviour. It has been observed, and sometimes demonstrated, in a few populations across the world, but exactly which species are capable of large-scale synchronization remains unclear, especially for low-density swarms. The underlying question which we address here is: how does one qualify a collective flashing display as synchronous, given that the only information available is the time and location of flashes? We propose different statistical approaches and apply them to high-resolution stereoscopic video recordings of the collective flashing of

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Behavior, AnimalFirefliesAnimalsResearch Designcollective behaviourfirefliesstatistical analysissynchronization

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PMID35317654
PMCPMC8941412

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