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Collective Behaviour

Edited by:
Asja Jelic, PhD, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy

Kevin Painter, Professor, Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio (DIST) Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Submission Status: Open   |  Submission Deadline: 20 December 2024


Movement Ecology is calling for submissions to our Collection on 'Collective Behaviour'. This special collection aims to capture the latest developments in the collective behaviour of organisms by covering the state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical techniques as well as to provide a forum for a synthesis across species.

About the Collection

Movement Ecology is calling for submissions to our Collection on 'Collective Behaviour' 

Coordinated spatio-temporal patterns of groups of organisms have been observed across all taxa from aquatic to terrestrial and aerial species. By using information that is only transient and limited in space, individual animals manage to coordinate their actions to achieve a common goal across much larger scales and hierarchical levels. The emergence of these ordered or partially ordered structures in space and time from the movement and interactions of the individuals is a hallmark of animal collective behaviour and is an exciting area of research at the interface of ethology, applied mathematics, physics and robotics. By bringing observational data with an ever increasing number and resolution, tracking technologies have had an important role in the growth of collective behavioural studies, providing opportunities for a deeper understanding of the underlying sensorial and cognitive mechanisms, but also for novel directions to explore. This special collection aims to capture the latest developments in the collective behaviour of organisms by covering the state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical techniques as well as to provide a forum for a synthesis across species.


Image credits: Giuggioli lab

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of research articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

USE IF SNAPP JOURNAL - Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “xxxxx" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process [hyperlink to journal's About page] and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.