Disentangling social networks from spatiotemporal dynamics: The temporal structure of a dolphin society

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 641-651

  Cantor, Maurício ^a,b   Wedekin, Leonardo Liberali ^b   Guimarães, Paulo Roberto ^c   Daura Jorge, Fábio Gonçalves ^a   Rossi Santos, Marcos Roberto ^b   Simões Lopes, Paulo César ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BALEIA JUBARTE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animal society; Guiana dolphin; Modularity; Population turnover; Ranging behaviour; Social structure; Sotalia guianensis

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOLPHIN; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; SOTALIA GUIANENSIS;

EID: 84865373779     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.06.019     Document Type: Article

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