Effects of personality on territory defence in communication networks: A playback experiment with radio-tagged great tits

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1700, 2010, Pages 3685-3692

  Amy, Mathieu ^a,b   Sprau, Philipp ^a   De Goede, Piet ^a   Naguib, Marc ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Communication networks; Interactive playback; Personality; Radio tracking; Territorial signalling

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMMUNICATION; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSERINE; SIGNALING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONG; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRITORY;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 78650064932     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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