How Random Is Social Behaviour? Disentangling Social Complexity through the Study of a Wild House Mouse Population

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Perony, Nicolas ^a   Tessone, Claudio J ^a   König, Barbara ^b   Schweitzer, Frank ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ANIMAL GROUPS; DISCRETE LOCATION; EMERGENT PROPERTY; INDIVIDUAL LEVELS; INTERACTION DYNAMICS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; SIMPLE STOCHASTIC; SIMPLE++; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; STOCHASTIC-MODELING;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WILD ANIMAL;

EID: 84870667496     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002786     Document Type: Article

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