Determining association networks in social animals: Choosing spatial-temporal criteria and sampling rates

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1659-1668

  Haddadi, Hamed ^a   King, Andrew J ^a   Wills, Alison P ^a   Fay, Damien ^b   Lowe, John ^a   Morton, A Jennifer ^b   Hailes, Stephen ^c   Wilson, Alan M ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flocking; Sampling rate; Sheep; Social behaviour; Social networks; Spatial temporal associations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; GRAPHICAL METHOD; GROUP BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL METHOD; SAMPLING; SHEEP; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79960185576     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1193-3     Document Type: Article

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