A new heuristic for capturing the complexity of multimodal signals

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1389-1398

  Smith, Carolynn L ^a   Evans, Christopher S ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active space; Animal communication; Multicomponent; Multimodal; Signal efficacy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMMUNICATION; PREDICTION; SIGNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84883790249     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1490-0     Document Type: Article

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