Proximity as a proxy for interactions: Issues of scale in social network analysis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 104, Issue , 2015, Pages e1-e5

  Farine, Damien R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Association; Interaction; Interspecific; Mixed species flocking; Social network analysis; Thornbill

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937758325     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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