The importance of fission-fusion social group dynamics in birds

Ibis

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 701-715

  Silk, Matthew J ^a   Croft, Darren P ^a   Tregenza, Tom ^a   Bearhop, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective behaviour; Familiarity; Mixed species flocks; Partial consensus; Social networks

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILIARITY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 84926219330     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12191     Document Type: Review

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