The social organization of fish shoals: A test of the predictive power of laboratory experiments for the field

Biological Reviews

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 477-501

  Krause, Jens ^a   Butlin, Roger K ^a   Peuhkuri, Nina ^b   Pritchard, Victoria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fish; Group living; Shoal structure; Shoalmate choice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; GROUP DYNAMICS; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TELEOST;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; FISHES; FRESH WATER; KILLIFISHES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEAWATER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0033677963     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2000.tb00052.x     Document Type: Article

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