Communication in social networks of territorial animals: Networking at different levels in birds and other systems

Sociobiology of Communication: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Matessi, Giuliano ^a   Matos, Ricardo J ^a   Dabelsteen, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Birds; Communication networks; Information flow; Rainbow network model; Signalling; Social networks; Sociality; Vertebrate levels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199216840.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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