A Quantitative Index of Sociality and Its Application to Group-Living Spiders and Other Social Organisms

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1219-1229

  Avilés, Leticia ^a   Harwood, Gyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; INDEX METHOD; LIFE CYCLE; NEST STRUCTURE; PHILOPATRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANKING; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SPIDER; TOLERANCE;

ANELOSIMUS; ARANEAE; CRYPTOMYS HOTTENTOTUS; RATTUS;

EID: 84869762017     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12028     Document Type: Article

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