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44. Couzin, I.D., Murphy, T. & Guttal, V. (2009) Living architecture: self-organized bridge construction by army ants, in prep.

43. Hale, J.J., Couzin, I.D., Buhl, J., Simpson, S.J. & Sumpter, D.J.T. (2009) Marching experience and gregarious inertia in locustssubmitted.

42. Erra, U., Frola, B., Scarano, V. & Couzin, I.D. (2009) An efficient GPU implementation for large-scale individual based simulation of collective behavior, in press.

41. Couzin, I.D. & Laidre, M. (2009) Quick Guide: Fission-fusion populations, Current Biology, in press. 

40. Simpson, S.J., Raubenheimer, D., Charleston, M.A., Clissold, F.J., Couzin, I.D., Clements, K.D., Coleman, R.A., Dussutour, A., Foley, W., Forbey, J., Glaze, E., Gordon, I.J., Hanan, J., Hochuli, D., Kearney, M.R., McArthur, C., Poore, A.G.B., Sword, G.A. & Wallis, I.R. (2009) Modelling nutritional interactions: from individuals to communities, Trends in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, in press. 

39. Yates, C.A.,  Erban, R., Escudero, C., Couzin, I.D., Buhl, J., Kevrekidis, I.G., Maini, P.K. & Sumpter, D.J.T. (2009) Inherent noise can facilitate coherence in collective swarm motion, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106(14), 5464-5469.

38. Romanczuk, P., Couzin, I.D. & Schimansky-Geier, L. (2009) Collective motion of animal groups due to escape and pursuit behavior. Physical Review Letters 102, 010602.

37. Deisboeck, T. & Couzin, I.D. (2009) Collective behavior in cancer cell populations, BioEssays 31(2), 190-197.

36. Nabet, B., Leonard, N.E., Couzin, I.D. & Levin, S.A. (2009) Dynamics of decision-making in animal group motion, Journal of Nonlinear Science, in press.

35. Couzin, I.D.  (2009) Collective cognition in animal groups, Trends in Cogntive Sciences 13(1), 36-43.

34. Conradt, L., Roper, T.J., Couzin, I.D & Krause, J. (2009) Leading-according-to-needs in animal groups, American Naturalist 173(3), 304-312.

33. Dyer, J.R.G., Johansson, A., Helbing, D., Couzin, I.D. & Krause, J. (2009) Leadership, consensus decision making and collective behaviour in human crowds Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 364, 781-789.

32. Sumpter, D.J.T., Krause, J., James, R., Couzin, I.D. & Ward, A. (2008) Consensus decision-making by fish, Current Biology 18(22), 1773-1777.

31. Bazazi, S, Buhl, J., Hale, J.J., Anstey, M.L., Sword, G.A., Simpson, S.J. & Couzin, I.D. (2008) Collective motion and cannibalism in locust marching bands, Current Biology 18(10), 735-739.

30. Ward, A.J., Sumpter, D.J.T., Couzin, I.D., Hart, P.J.B. & Krause, J. (2008) Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105(19), 6948-6953.  

29. Sumpter, D.J.T., Buhl, J., Biro, D. & Couzin, I.D. (2008) Information transfer in moving animal groups Theory in Biosciences 127(2), 177-186.

28. Roditakis, E., Couzin, I.D., Franks, N.R. & Charnley A.K. (2008) Effects of Lecanicillium longisporum infection development on the behaviour of the green peach aphid Myzus persicae, Journal of Insect Physiology 54(1), 128-13624. 

27. Dyer, J.R.G., Ioannou, C.C., Morrell, L.J., Croft, D.P., Couzin, I.D., Waters, D.A. & Krause, J (2008) Consensus decision-making in human crowds, Animal Behaviour 75, 461-470

26. Paley, D.A., Leonard, N.A., Sepulchre, R.J. & Couzin, I.D. (2008) Spatial models of bistability in biological collectives, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, 4851-4856.

25. Swain, D.T., Leonard, N.E., Couzin, I.D., Kao, A. & Seuplchre, R.J. (2008) Alternating spatial patterns for coordinated group motionProc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, 12-14.

24. Lu, J., Liu, J., Couzin, I.D. & Levin, S.A. (2008) Emerging collective behaviors of animal groupsProc. World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, 1060-1065.

23. Couzin, I.D. (2007) Collective minds Nature 455, 715.

22. Nabet, B., Leonard, N.E., Couzin, I.D. & Levin, S.A.(2006) Leadership in animal group motion: a bifurcation analysis, Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, in press.

21. Buhl, J., Sumpter, D.J.T., Couzin, I.D., Hale, J., Despland, E., Miller, E. & Simpson, S.J. (2006) From disorder to order in marching locusts Science 312, 1402-1406.

20. Couzin, I.D. (2006) Behavioral ecology: social organization in fission-fusion societies Current Biology 16, 169-171.

19. Simpson, S.J., Sword A.G., Lorch, P.D & Couzin, I.D. (2006) Cannibal crickets on a forced march for protein and salt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103, 4152-4156.

18. Couzin, I.D., James, R., Croft, D.P. & Krause, J. (2006) Social organization and information transfer in schooling fish Fish Cognition and Behaviour eds.Brown C., Laland, K.N. & Krause, J.

17. Couzin, I.D., Krause, J., Franks, N.R. & Levin, S.A.(2005) Effective leadership and decision making in animal groups on the move Nature 433, 513-516.

16. Wrege, P., Wikelski, M., Mandel, J.T. Rassweiler, T & Couzin, I. D. (2005) Antbirds parasitize foraging army ants Ecology 86(3), 555-559.

15. Hensor, E.M.A., Couzin, I. D., James, R. & Krause, J. (2005) Modelling density-dependent fish shoal distributions in the laboratory and the field Oikos 110(2), 344-352.

14. Hoare, D. J., Couzin, I. D., Godin, J-G. & Krause, J. (2004) Context-dependent group size choice in fish Animal Behaviour 67, 155-164.

13. Krause, J. & Couzin, I.D. (2004) Collective behaviour in animals. In: Stare über Berlin (Kuentzel T. ed.). Berlin.

12. Couzin, I.D. & Krause, J. (2003) Self-organization and collective behavior of vertebrates Advances in the Study of Behavior 32, 1-75.

11. Couzin, I.D. & Franks, N.R.(2003) Self-organized lane formation and optimized traffic flow in army ants Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 270, 139-146.

10. Croft, D. P., Arrowsmith, B. J., Bielby, J., Skinner, K., White, E., Couzin, I. D., Magurran, A. E., Ranmarine, I. & Krause, J. (2003) Mechanisms underlying shoal composition in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) Oikos 100, 429-438.

9. Croft, D. P., Krause, J., Couzin, I. D. & Pitcher, T. J. (2003) When fish schools meet: outcomes for evolution and fisheries Fish and Fisheries 4, 138-146.

8. Couzin, I.D., Krause, J., James, R., Ruxton, G.D. & Franks, N.R. (2002) Collective memory and spatial sorting in animal groups Journal of Theoretical Biology 218, 1-11.

7. Ward, A. J. W., Hoare, D. J., Couzin, I. D. & Krause, J. (2002) The effects of parasitism and body length on positioning within wild fish shoals Journal of Animal Ecology 71(1), 10-14.

6. Couzin, I. D. & Krause, J. (2001) The social organization of fish schools Advances in Ethology 36, 64.

5. Hoare, D. J., Ward, A., Couzin, I. D., Croft, D. & Krause, J. (2001) A grid-net technique for the analysis of fish positions in free-ranging fish schools Journal of Fish Biology 59(6), 1667-1672.

4. Roditakis, E., Couzin, I. D., Barlow, K., Franks, N. R. & Charnley, A. K. (2000) Improving secondary pick up of insect fungal pathogen conidia by manipulating host behavior Annals of Applied Biology 137, 329-335.

3. Boi, S., Couzin, I. D., Del Buono, N., Franks, N. R. & Britton, N. F. (1999) Coupled oscillators and activity waves in ant colonies Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 266, 371-378.

2. Spencer, A. J., Couzin, I. D. & Franks, N. R. (1998) The dynamics of specialization and generalization within biological populations Journal of Complex Systems 1, 114-128.

1. Ritchie, M. G. R., Couzin, I. D. & Snedden, W. A. (1995) What's in a song? Female bushcrickets discriminate against the song of older males Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 262, 21-27.

Other publications:

Couzin, I.D. (2004) The mob rules. BBC Wildlife Magazine.

Couzin, I. D. (1999) Collective Animal Behaviour. University of Bath, Ph. D. thesis.


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