The importance of stable schooling: Do familiar sticklebacks stick together?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1439, 2000, Pages 151-155

  Barber, Iain ^a,b   Ruxton, Graeme D ^b  

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Familiarity; Fish; Group dynamics; Shoal composition; Shoaling; Three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FISH; GROUP DYNAMICS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALIA; ARENA; GASTEROSTEIFORMES; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; ICHTHYOFAUNA;

EID: 0034700799     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0980     Document Type: Article

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