Collective decision-making and fission-fusion dynamics: A conceptual framework

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1608-1617

  Sueur, Cédric ^a,b   King, Andrew J ^c   Conradt, Larissa ^d   Kerth, Gerald ^e   Lusseau, David ^f   Mettke Hofmann, Claudia ^g   Schaffner, Colleen M ^h   Williams, Leah ^g   Zinner, Dietmar ⁱ   Aureli, Filippo ^g  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e Angewandte Zoologie und Naturschutz   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^g LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE; RESEARCH WORK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80055091299     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19685.x     Document Type: Article

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