Finding an appropriate order for a hierarchy based on probabilistic dominance

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 991-998

  Jameson, Kimberly A ^a   Appleby, Michael C ^b   Freeman, Linton C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 0033134619     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1077     Document Type: Article

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