The threat of punishment enforces peaceful cooperation and stabilizes queues in a coral-reef fish

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1613, 2007, Pages 1093-1099

  Wong, Marian Y L ^a   Buston, Peter M ^b   Munday, Philip L ^a   Jones, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Cooperation; Eviction; Growth regulation; Punishment; Social queue

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CORAL REEF; DOMINANCE; FINFISH; GROWTH RATE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PERCIFORM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE SELECTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONFLICT; COOPERATION; CORAL REEF; FISH; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PARAGOBIODON XANTHOSOMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; GOBIIDAE; PARAGOBIODON XANTHOSOMUS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUNISHMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 34447327206     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0284     Document Type: Article

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