Professor Colin Torney

  • Professor of Applied Mathematics (Mathematics)

Research interests

My research uses mathematical modelling and machine learning to study ecology and animal movement.

Please see my website for further information:
https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~ctorney/

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Kundegorski, Mikolaj E., Honkanen, Hannele M., Stephen, Alastair, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Killen, Shaun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 and Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 (2025) Defining the water flow cues for navigation in migrating Atlantic salmon smolts. Journal of Fish Biology, (doi: 10.1111/jfb.70004) (Early Online Publication)

Campioni, Nazareno, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413, Gaskell, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-323X, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490 and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2025) Scalable non-Markovian state switching models for animal movement. In: Giuggioli, Luca and Maini, Philip (eds.) The Mathematics of Movement: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Mutual Challenges in Animal Ecology and Cell Biology. Springer Nature. (Accepted for Publication)

Kavwele, Cyrus M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4619-515X, Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490, Nyafi, Gerald, Kimuya, Nancy and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2025) Real‐time classification of Serengeti wildebeest behaviour with edge machine learning and a long‐range IoT network. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 103, pp. 1-11. (doi: 10.1139/cjz-2024-0075)

2024

Masolele, Majaliwa M., Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951 and Torney, Colin J.T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2024) Efficient approximate Bayesian inference for quantifying uncertainty in multiscale animal movement models. Ecological Informatics, 84, 102853. (doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102853)

Kavwele, Cyrus M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4619-515X, Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951, Davy, Deborah and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2024) Automated and repeated aerial observations of GPS‐collared animals using UAVs and open‐source electronics. Ecosphere, 15(4), e4841. (doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4841)

2023

Rathore, Akanksha, Sharma, Ananth, Shah, Shaan, Sharma, Nitika, Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 and Guttal, Vishwesha (2023) Multi-Object Tracking in Heterogeneous environments (MOTHe) for animal video recordings. PeerJ, 11, e15573. (doi: 10.7717/peerj.15573) (PMID:37397020) (PMCID:PMC10309051)

Paun, Ionut ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1673-9803, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413 and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2023) Stochastic variational inference for scalable non-stationary Gaussian process regression. Statistics and Computing, 33(2), 44. (doi: 10.1007/s11222-023-10210-w)

Gaskell, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-323X, Campioni, Nazareno, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413 and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2023) Inferring the interaction rules of complex systems with graph neural networks and approximate Bayesian computation. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 20(198), 20220676. (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0676) (PMID:36596456)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Laxton, Megan, Lloyd‐Jones, David J., Kohi, Edward M., Frederick, Howard L., Moyer, David C., Mrisha, Chediel, Mwita, Machoke and Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951 (2023) Estimating the abundance of a group-living species using multi-latent spatial models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(1), pp. 77-86. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.13941)

2022

Paun, Ionut ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1673-9803, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413, Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951, Masolele, Majaliwa M. and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2022) Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous-time velocity model. Ecology Letters, 25(12), pp. 2726-2738. (doi: 10.1111/ele.14117) (PMID:36256526)

Kavwele, Cyrus M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4619-515X, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Morrison, Thomas A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7262-1402, Fulford, Sidney, Masolele, Majaliwa M., Masoy, Joseph and Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951 (2022) Non‐local effects of human activity on the spatial distribution of migratory wildlife in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3(3), e12159. (doi: 10.1002/2688-8319.12159)

2021

Campioni, Nazareno, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413, Morales, Juan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490, Gaskell, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-323X and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2021) Inferring microscale properties of interacting systems from macroscale observations. Physical Review Research, 3(4), 043074. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043074)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490 and Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413 (2021) A hierarchical machine learning framework for the analysis of large scale animal movement data. Movement Ecology, 9, 6. (doi: 10.1186/s40462-021-00242-0) (PMID:33602302)

2020

Campioni, Nazareno, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490, Gaskell, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-323X and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2020) Modelling multiscale collective behavior with Gaussian processes. In: Ladde, Gangaram and Samia, Noelle (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA'20). Avestia Publishing: Ottawa, Canada, p. 124. ISBN 9781927877685 (doi: 10.11159/icsta20.124)

Gaskell, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-323X, Campioni, Nazareno, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413 and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2020) Approximate Bayesian inference for individual-based models with emergent dynamics. In: Ladde, Gangaram and Samia, Noelle (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA'20). Avestia Publishing: Ottawa, Canada, p. 125. ISBN 9781927877685 (doi: 10.11159/icsta20.125)

2019

Evans, Julian C., Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Votier, Stephen C. and Dall, Sasha R. X. (2019) Social information use and collective foraging in a pursuit diving seabird. PLoS ONE, 14(9), e0222600. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222600) (PMID:31545848) (PMCID:PMC6756525)

Paun, Ionut ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1673-9803, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413 and Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2019) A Study on Discrete-Time Movement Models. In: International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA’19), Lisbon, Portugal, 13-14 Aug 2019, p. 27. ISBN 9781927877647 (doi: 10.11159/icsta19.27)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Lloyd-Jones, David J., Chevallier, Mark, Moyer, David C., Maliti, Honori T., Mwita, Machoke, Kohi, Edward M. and Hopcraft, J.G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951 (2019) A comparison of deep learning and citizen science techniques for counting wildlife in aerial survey images. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(6), pp. 779-787. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13165)

2018

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951, Morrison, Thomas A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7262-1402, Couzin, Iain D. and Levin, Simon A. (2018) From single steps to mass migration: the problem of scale in the movement ecology of the Serengeti wildebeest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170012. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0012) (PMID:29581397) (PMCID:PMC5882982)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Lamont, Myles, Debell, Leon, Angohiatok, Ryan J., Leclerc, Lisa-Marie and Berdahl, Andrew M. (2018) Inferring the rules of social interaction in migrating caribou. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170385. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0385) (PMID:29581404)

Westley, Peter A.H., Berdahl, Andrew M., Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 and Biro, Dora (2018) Collective movement in ecology: from emerging technologies to conservation and management. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170004. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0004) (PMID:29581389)

Faust, Christina L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8824-7424, McCallum, Hamish I., Bloomfield, Laura S.P., Gottdenker, Nicole L., Gillespie, Thomas R., Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Dobson, Andrew P. and Plowright, Raina K. (2018) Pathogen spillover during land conversion. Ecology Letters, 21(4), pp. 471-483. (doi: 10.1111/ele.12904) (PMID:29466832)

2017

Ioannou, Christos C., Ramnarine, Indar W. and Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2017) High-predation habitats affect the social dynamics of collective exploration in a shoaling fish. Science Advances, 3(5), e1602682. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602682)

Valletta, John Joseph, Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Kings, Michael, Thornton, Alex and Madden, Joah (2017) Applications of machine learning in animal behaviour studies. Animal Behaviour, 124, pp. 203-220. (doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.005)

2016

Berdahl, Andrew, van Leeuwen, Anieke, Levin, Simon A. and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2016) Collective behavior as a driver of critical transitions in migratory populations. Movement Ecology, 4(1), 18. (doi: 10.1186/s40462-016-0083-8) (PMID:27429757) (PMCID:PMC4946155)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Dobson, Andrew P., Borner, Felix, Lloyd-Jones, David J., Moyer, David, Maliti, Honori T., Mwita, Machoke, Fredrick, Howard, Borner, Markus and Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951 (2016) Assessing rotation-invariant feature classification for automated wildebeest population counts. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0156342. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156342) (PMID:27227888) (PMCID:PMC4881999)

2015

Hein, Andrew M., Rosenthal, Sara Brin, Hagstrom, George I., Berdahl, Andrew, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 and Couzin, Iain D. (2015) The evolution of distributed sensing and collective computation in animal populations. eLife, 4, e10955. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.10955) (PMID:26652003) (PMCID:PMC4755780)

Berdahl, Andrew, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Schertzer, Emmanuel and Levin, Simon A. (2015) On the evolutionary interplay between dispersal and local adaptation in heterogeneous environments. Evolution, 69(6), pp. 1390-1405. (doi: 10.1111/evo.12664)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Lorenzi, Tommaso, Couzin, Iain D. and Levin, Simon A. (2015) Social information use and the evolution of unresponsiveness in collective systems. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 12(103), (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0893) (PMID:25519991) (PMCID:PMC4305405)

2014

Kao, Albert B., Miller, Noam, Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Hartnett, Andrew and Couzin, Iain D. (2014) Collective learning and optimal consensus decisions in social animal groups. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(8), e1003762. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003762) (PMID:25101642) (PMCID:PMC4125046)

2013

Strandburg-Peshkin, A. et al. (2013) Visual sensory networks and effective information transfer in animal groups. Current Biology, 23(17), R709-R711. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.059) (PMID:24028946) (PMCID:PMC4780851)

Coburn, Luke, Cerone, Luca, Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Couzin, Iain D and Neufeld, Zoltan (2013) Tactile interactions lead to coherent motion and enhanced chemotaxis of migrating cells. Physical Biology, 10(4), 046002. (doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/10/4/046002) (PMID:23752100)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Levin, Simon A. and Couzin, Iain D. (2013) Decision accuracy and the role of spatial interaction in opinion dynamics. Journal of Statistical Physics, 151(1-2), pp. 203-217. (doi: 10.1007/s10955-013-0700-5)

Berdahl, Andrew, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Ioannou, Christos C., Faria, Jolyon J. and Couzin, Iain D. (2013) Emergent sensing of complex environments by mobile animal groups. Science, 339(6119), pp. 574-576. (doi: 10.1126/science.1225883) (PMID:23372013)

2011

Couzin, Iain D., Ioannou, Christos C., Demirel, Güven, Gross, Thilo, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Hartnett, Andrew, Conradt, Larissa, Levin, Simon A. and Leonard, Naomi E. (2011) Uninformed individuals promote democratic consensus in animal groups. Science, 334(6062), pp. 1578-1580. (doi: 10.1126/science.1210280) (PMID:22174256)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Berdahl, Andrew and Couzin, Iain D. (2011) Signalling and the evolution of cooperative foraging in dynamic environments. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(9), e1002194. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002194) (PMID:21966265) (PMCID:PMC3178622)

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Articles

Kundegorski, Mikolaj E., Honkanen, Hannele M., Stephen, Alastair, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Killen, Shaun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 and Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 (2025) Defining the water flow cues for navigation in migrating Atlantic salmon smolts. Journal of Fish Biology, (doi: 10.1111/jfb.70004) (Early Online Publication)

Kavwele, Cyrus M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4619-515X, Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490, Nyafi, Gerald, Kimuya, Nancy and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2025) Real‐time classification of Serengeti wildebeest behaviour with edge machine learning and a long‐range IoT network. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 103, pp. 1-11. (doi: 10.1139/cjz-2024-0075)

Masolele, Majaliwa M., Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951 and Torney, Colin J.T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2024) Efficient approximate Bayesian inference for quantifying uncertainty in multiscale animal movement models. Ecological Informatics, 84, 102853. (doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102853)

Kavwele, Cyrus M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4619-515X, Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951, Davy, Deborah and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2024) Automated and repeated aerial observations of GPS‐collared animals using UAVs and open‐source electronics. Ecosphere, 15(4), e4841. (doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4841)

Rathore, Akanksha, Sharma, Ananth, Shah, Shaan, Sharma, Nitika, Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 and Guttal, Vishwesha (2023) Multi-Object Tracking in Heterogeneous environments (MOTHe) for animal video recordings. PeerJ, 11, e15573. (doi: 10.7717/peerj.15573) (PMID:37397020) (PMCID:PMC10309051)

Paun, Ionut ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1673-9803, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413 and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2023) Stochastic variational inference for scalable non-stationary Gaussian process regression. Statistics and Computing, 33(2), 44. (doi: 10.1007/s11222-023-10210-w)

Gaskell, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-323X, Campioni, Nazareno, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413 and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2023) Inferring the interaction rules of complex systems with graph neural networks and approximate Bayesian computation. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 20(198), 20220676. (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0676) (PMID:36596456)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Laxton, Megan, Lloyd‐Jones, David J., Kohi, Edward M., Frederick, Howard L., Moyer, David C., Mrisha, Chediel, Mwita, Machoke and Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951 (2023) Estimating the abundance of a group-living species using multi-latent spatial models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(1), pp. 77-86. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.13941)

Paun, Ionut ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1673-9803, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413, Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951, Masolele, Majaliwa M. and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2022) Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous-time velocity model. Ecology Letters, 25(12), pp. 2726-2738. (doi: 10.1111/ele.14117) (PMID:36256526)

Kavwele, Cyrus M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4619-515X, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Morrison, Thomas A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7262-1402, Fulford, Sidney, Masolele, Majaliwa M., Masoy, Joseph and Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951 (2022) Non‐local effects of human activity on the spatial distribution of migratory wildlife in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3(3), e12159. (doi: 10.1002/2688-8319.12159)

Campioni, Nazareno, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413, Morales, Juan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490, Gaskell, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-323X and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2021) Inferring microscale properties of interacting systems from macroscale observations. Physical Review Research, 3(4), 043074. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043074)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490 and Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413 (2021) A hierarchical machine learning framework for the analysis of large scale animal movement data. Movement Ecology, 9, 6. (doi: 10.1186/s40462-021-00242-0) (PMID:33602302)

Evans, Julian C., Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Votier, Stephen C. and Dall, Sasha R. X. (2019) Social information use and collective foraging in a pursuit diving seabird. PLoS ONE, 14(9), e0222600. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222600) (PMID:31545848) (PMCID:PMC6756525)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Lloyd-Jones, David J., Chevallier, Mark, Moyer, David C., Maliti, Honori T., Mwita, Machoke, Kohi, Edward M. and Hopcraft, J.G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951 (2019) A comparison of deep learning and citizen science techniques for counting wildlife in aerial survey images. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(6), pp. 779-787. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13165)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951, Morrison, Thomas A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7262-1402, Couzin, Iain D. and Levin, Simon A. (2018) From single steps to mass migration: the problem of scale in the movement ecology of the Serengeti wildebeest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170012. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0012) (PMID:29581397) (PMCID:PMC5882982)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Lamont, Myles, Debell, Leon, Angohiatok, Ryan J., Leclerc, Lisa-Marie and Berdahl, Andrew M. (2018) Inferring the rules of social interaction in migrating caribou. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170385. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0385) (PMID:29581404)

Westley, Peter A.H., Berdahl, Andrew M., Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 and Biro, Dora (2018) Collective movement in ecology: from emerging technologies to conservation and management. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170004. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0004) (PMID:29581389)

Faust, Christina L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8824-7424, McCallum, Hamish I., Bloomfield, Laura S.P., Gottdenker, Nicole L., Gillespie, Thomas R., Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Dobson, Andrew P. and Plowright, Raina K. (2018) Pathogen spillover during land conversion. Ecology Letters, 21(4), pp. 471-483. (doi: 10.1111/ele.12904) (PMID:29466832)

Ioannou, Christos C., Ramnarine, Indar W. and Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2017) High-predation habitats affect the social dynamics of collective exploration in a shoaling fish. Science Advances, 3(5), e1602682. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602682)

Valletta, John Joseph, Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Kings, Michael, Thornton, Alex and Madden, Joah (2017) Applications of machine learning in animal behaviour studies. Animal Behaviour, 124, pp. 203-220. (doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.005)

Berdahl, Andrew, van Leeuwen, Anieke, Levin, Simon A. and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2016) Collective behavior as a driver of critical transitions in migratory populations. Movement Ecology, 4(1), 18. (doi: 10.1186/s40462-016-0083-8) (PMID:27429757) (PMCID:PMC4946155)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Dobson, Andrew P., Borner, Felix, Lloyd-Jones, David J., Moyer, David, Maliti, Honori T., Mwita, Machoke, Fredrick, Howard, Borner, Markus and Hopcraft, J. Grant C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-9951 (2016) Assessing rotation-invariant feature classification for automated wildebeest population counts. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0156342. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156342) (PMID:27227888) (PMCID:PMC4881999)

Hein, Andrew M., Rosenthal, Sara Brin, Hagstrom, George I., Berdahl, Andrew, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 and Couzin, Iain D. (2015) The evolution of distributed sensing and collective computation in animal populations. eLife, 4, e10955. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.10955) (PMID:26652003) (PMCID:PMC4755780)

Berdahl, Andrew, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Schertzer, Emmanuel and Levin, Simon A. (2015) On the evolutionary interplay between dispersal and local adaptation in heterogeneous environments. Evolution, 69(6), pp. 1390-1405. (doi: 10.1111/evo.12664)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Lorenzi, Tommaso, Couzin, Iain D. and Levin, Simon A. (2015) Social information use and the evolution of unresponsiveness in collective systems. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 12(103), (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0893) (PMID:25519991) (PMCID:PMC4305405)

Kao, Albert B., Miller, Noam, Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Hartnett, Andrew and Couzin, Iain D. (2014) Collective learning and optimal consensus decisions in social animal groups. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(8), e1003762. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003762) (PMID:25101642) (PMCID:PMC4125046)

Strandburg-Peshkin, A. et al. (2013) Visual sensory networks and effective information transfer in animal groups. Current Biology, 23(17), R709-R711. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.059) (PMID:24028946) (PMCID:PMC4780851)

Coburn, Luke, Cerone, Luca, Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Couzin, Iain D and Neufeld, Zoltan (2013) Tactile interactions lead to coherent motion and enhanced chemotaxis of migrating cells. Physical Biology, 10(4), 046002. (doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/10/4/046002) (PMID:23752100)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Levin, Simon A. and Couzin, Iain D. (2013) Decision accuracy and the role of spatial interaction in opinion dynamics. Journal of Statistical Physics, 151(1-2), pp. 203-217. (doi: 10.1007/s10955-013-0700-5)

Berdahl, Andrew, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Ioannou, Christos C., Faria, Jolyon J. and Couzin, Iain D. (2013) Emergent sensing of complex environments by mobile animal groups. Science, 339(6119), pp. 574-576. (doi: 10.1126/science.1225883) (PMID:23372013)

Couzin, Iain D., Ioannou, Christos C., Demirel, Güven, Gross, Thilo, Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Hartnett, Andrew, Conradt, Larissa, Levin, Simon A. and Leonard, Naomi E. (2011) Uninformed individuals promote democratic consensus in animal groups. Science, 334(6062), pp. 1578-1580. (doi: 10.1126/science.1210280) (PMID:22174256)

Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835, Berdahl, Andrew and Couzin, Iain D. (2011) Signalling and the evolution of cooperative foraging in dynamic environments. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(9), e1002194. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002194) (PMID:21966265) (PMCID:PMC3178622)

Book Sections

Campioni, Nazareno, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413, Gaskell, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-323X, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490 and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2025) Scalable non-Markovian state switching models for animal movement. In: Giuggioli, Luca and Maini, Philip (eds.) The Mathematics of Movement: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Mutual Challenges in Animal Ecology and Cell Biology. Springer Nature. (Accepted for Publication)

Campioni, Nazareno, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490, Gaskell, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-323X and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2020) Modelling multiscale collective behavior with Gaussian processes. In: Ladde, Gangaram and Samia, Noelle (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA'20). Avestia Publishing: Ottawa, Canada, p. 124. ISBN 9781927877685 (doi: 10.11159/icsta20.124)

Gaskell, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-323X, Campioni, Nazareno, Morales, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-7490, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413 and Torney, Colin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2020) Approximate Bayesian inference for individual-based models with emergent dynamics. In: Ladde, Gangaram and Samia, Noelle (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA'20). Avestia Publishing: Ottawa, Canada, p. 125. ISBN 9781927877685 (doi: 10.11159/icsta20.125)

Conference Proceedings

Paun, Ionut ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1673-9803, Husmeier, Dirk ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7413 and Torney, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-7835 (2019) A Study on Discrete-Time Movement Models. In: International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA’19), Lisbon, Portugal, 13-14 Aug 2019, p. 27. ISBN 9781927877647 (doi: 10.11159/icsta19.27)

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Supervision

  • Duffield, Christine
    The Leverhulme Programme for Doctoral Training in Ecological Data Science
  • Lindeman, Mathilde
    The Leverhulme Programme for Doctoral Training in Ecological Data Science
  • Masolele, Majaliwa
    MODELLING THE EFFECTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE ON THE SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF ANIMAL POPULATIONS
  • Tiddy, Izzy
    The effects of climate-related stressors on fish social behaviour

Research datasets

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Number of items: 4.

2022

Kavwele, C. M., Torney, C. , Morrison, T. , Fulford, S., Masolele, M., Masoy, J. and Hopcraft, G. (2022) Non-local effects of human activity on the spatial distribution of migratory wildlife in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. [Data Collection]

2021

Torney, C. , Morales, J. and Husmeier, D. (2021) A hierarchical machine learning framework for the analysis of large scale animal movement data. [Data Collection]

2019

Torney, C., Lloyd-Jones, D. J., Chevallier, M., Moyer, D. C., Maliti, H. T., Mwita, M., Kohi, E. M. and Hopcraft, G. (2019) A comparison of deep learning and citizen science techniques for counting wildlife in aerial survey images. [Data Collection]

2018

Torney, C., Lamont, M., Debell, L., Angohiatok, R. J., Leclerc, L.-M. and Berdahl, A. M. (2018) Inferring the rules of social interaction in migrating caribou. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 04:42:53 2025 BST.