Testing measures of animal social association by computer simulation

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1447-1468

  White, David J ^a   Smith, V Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Animal; Association index; Social; Social assortment

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 35748966971     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907782418259     Document Type: Article

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