Individual preferences and social interactions determine the aggregation of woodlice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Devigne, Cédric ^a,b   Broly, Pierre ^a,b   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMIDITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PORCELLIO SCABER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; WOODLICE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APHID; DECISION MAKING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDIVIDUALITY; LIGHT; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL; TIME; WOOD;

ONISCIDEA;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMIDITY; INDIVIDUALITY; LIGHT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; TIME FACTORS; WOOD;

EID: 79952177520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017389     Document Type: Article

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