Measuring phenotypic assortment in animal social networks: Weighted associations are more robust than binary edges

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 141-153

  Farine, Damien R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assortativity; Assortnet; Group living; Niche partitioning; Paridae; R package; Social evolution; Social organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893478650     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.01.001     Document Type: Note

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