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Barber, Herbert Spencer. 1951. "North American fireflies of the genus Photuris." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 117, (1) 1–58.
Martin, O., Nguyen, C., Sarfati, R. et al. Embracing firefly flash pattern variability with data-driven species classification. Sci Rep 14, 3432 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53671-3
Sarfati R, Hayes JC, Sarfati É, Peleg O. Spatio-temporal reconstruction of emergent flash synchronization in firefly swarms via stereoscopic 360-degree cameras. J R Soc Interface. 2020 Sep;17(170):20200179. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0179. Epub 2020 Sep 23. PMID: 32961095; PMCID: PMC7536049.
Sarfati R, Hayes JC, Peleg O. Self-organization in natural swarms of Photinus carolinus synchronous fireflies. Sci Adv. 2021 Jul 7;7(28):eabg9259. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abg9259. PMID: 34233879; PMCID: PMC8262802.
P. Cinzano, F. Falchi, C.D. Elvidge, The first World Atlas of the artificial night sky brightness, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 328, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 689–707, doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04882.x
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Candace Fallon: xerces.org/staff/candace-fallon
Orit Peleg: peleglab.com
Barber, Herbert Spencer. 1951. "North American fireflies of the genus Photuris." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 117, (1) 1–58.
Martin, O., Nguyen, C., Sarfati, R. et al. Embracing firefly flash pattern variability with data-driven species classification. Sci Rep 14, 3432 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53671-3
Sarfati R, Hayes JC, Sarfati É, Peleg O. Spatio-temporal reconstruction of emergent flash synchronization in firefly swarms via stereoscopic 360-degree cameras. J R Soc Interface. 2020 Sep;17(170):20200179. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0179. Epub 2020 Sep 23. PMID: 32961095; PMCID: PMC7536049.
Sarfati R, Hayes JC, Peleg O. Self-organization in natural swarms of Photinus carolinus synchronous fireflies. Sci Adv. 2021 Jul 7;7(28):eabg9259. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abg9259. PMID: 34233879; PMCID: PMC8262802.
P. Cinzano, F. Falchi, C.D. Elvidge, The first World Atlas of the artificial night sky brightness, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 328, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 689–707, doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04882.x
