Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1745, 2012, Pages 4199-4205

  Aplin, L M ^a,b   Farine, D R ^b   Morand Ferron, J ^b   Sheldon, B C ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group foraging; Local enhancement; Paridae; Scrounging; Social information; Social network theory

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; PATCH DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SONGBIRD; SYMPATRY; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; PARIDAE;

EID: 84866087832     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1591     Document Type: Article

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