Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6948-6953

  Ward, Ashley J W ^a   Sumpter, David J T ^b   Couzin, Iain D ^c   Hart, Paul J B ^d   Krause, Jens ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavior; Collective decision making; Schooling; Shoaling; Social

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; DECISION MAKING; FISH; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SMEGMAMORPHA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 44349127441     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710344105     Document Type: Article

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