Personality composition is more important than group size in determining collective foraging behaviour in the wild

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1796, 2014, Pages

  Keiser, Carl N ^a   Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective behaviour; Group composition; Group size; Personality; Temperament

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; NEST STRUCTURE; SPIDER; SPIDER WEB; WILDERNESS AREA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

EID: 84908181289     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1424     Document Type: Article

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