The role of public information in ecology and conservation: An emphasis on inadvertent social information

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1195, Issue , 2010, Pages 149-168

  Blanchet, Simon ^a,b,c   Clobert, Jean ^c   Danchin, Étienne ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c Moulis   (France)

Author keywords

Conservation biology; Ecology; Evolution; Inadvertent social information; Public information

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BREEDING; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTION; FORAGING; HABITAT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INSECT; KNOWLEDGE; MATING; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PREDATION; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77951995727     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05477.x     Document Type: Review

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