Resource heterogeneity can facilitate cooperation

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kun, Ádám ^a,b,c   Dieckmann, Ulf ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b PARMENIDES FOUNDATION   (Germany)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEITY; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NEIGHBORHOOD; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION;

EID: 84885116059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3453     Document Type: Article

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