The role of individuality in collective group movement

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1752, 2013, Pages

  Herbert Read, J E ^a,b   Krause, S ^c   Morrell, L J ^d   Schaerf, T M ^a   Krause, J ^e   Ward, A J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LÜBECK UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Collective behaviour; Collective movement; Fish shoals; Gambusia holbrooki; Personality; Sociality

Indexed keywords

EUSOCIALITY; GROUP SIZE; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT; TELEOST;

EID: 84870772439     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2564     Document Type: Article

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