Predicting flock vigilance from simple passerine interactions: Modelling with cellular automata

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 831-839

  Bahr, David B ^a   Bekoff, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; PASSERINE; VIGILANCE;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0032879388     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1227     Document Type: Article

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