Personality predicts the use of social information

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 829-837

  Kurvers, Ralf H J M ^a   van Oers, Kees ^b   Nolet, Bart A ^b   Jonker, Rudy M ^a   van Wieren, Sipke E ^a   Prins, Herbert H T ^a   Ydenberg, Ron C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Barnacle goose; Boldness; Branta leucopsis; Personality; Social information

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; SPACE USE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GOOSE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GEESE; MALE;

ANIMALIA; ANSER; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

EID: 77954646190     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01473.x     Document Type: Article

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