Better safe than sorry - socio-spatial group structure emerges from individual variation in fleeing, avoidance or velocity in an agent-based model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Evers, Ellen ^a   de Vries, Han ^a   Spruijt, Berry M ^a   Sterck, Elisabeth H M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL PERIPHERAL GROUP STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; ENCOUNTER GROUP; FLEEING; GROUP STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIMATE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIO SPATIAL GROUP STRUCTURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VELOCITY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

AGGRESSION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMATES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 81355124048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026189     Document Type: Article

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