Personality-dependent dispersal in the invasive mosquitofish: Group composition matters

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1712, 2011, Pages 1670-1678

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural mix; Behavioural type; Dispersal; Ecological invasion; Social tendency

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COLONIZATION; CYPRINID; DISPERSAL; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INVASIVE SPECIES;

ANIMALIA; GAMBUSIA AFFINIS;

EID: 79955458952     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1892     Document Type: Article

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