Key players and hierarchical organization of prairie dog social networks

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 19, Issue , 2014, Pages 140-147

  Verdolin, Jennifer L ^a   Traud, Amanda L ^b   Dunn, Robert R ^b  

^a NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community detection; Cynomys; Social networks; Social substructure; Sociality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903905547     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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