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The build up of a desert locust outbreak can be seen as three distinct stages. Concentration is followed by multiplication and gregarization.
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ROFFEY, J., POPOV, G. Environmental and Behavioural Processes in a Desert Locust Outbreak. Nature 219, 446–450 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219446a0
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