Quorum decision-making in foraging fish shoals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ward, Ashley J W ^a,b   Krause, Jens ^c   Sumpter, David J T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WATER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FISH; FLOW KINETICS; FOOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; NONHUMAN; QUORUM RESPONSE; SHOAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 84857831741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032411     Document Type: Article

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