Personality traits and dispersal tendency in the invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1687, 2010, Pages 1571-1579

  Cote, Julien ^a   Fogarty, Sean ^a   Weinersmith, Kelly ^a   Brodin, Tomas ^a   Sih, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization success; Dispersal; Invasion dynamic; Personality traits; Social tendency

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOINDICATOR; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; CYPRINID; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; POPULATION DENSITY;

GAMBUSIA AFFINIS;

EID: 77952723038     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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