Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1803, 2015, Pages

  Farine, Damien R ^a   Aplin, Lucy M ^a,b   Sheldon, Ben C ^a   Hoppitt, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mixed species flocking; Network based diffusion analysis; Public information; Social information; Social networks; Transmission networks

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIFFUSION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; KEYSTONE SPECIES; KINSHIP; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SONGBIRD; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84922495804     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2804     Document Type: Article

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