Inferring social structure from temporal data

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 857-866

  Psorakis, Ioannis ^a,b   Voelkl, Bernhard ^a   Garroway, Colin J ^a   Radersma, Reinder ^a   Aplin, Lucy M ^a   Crates, Ross A ^a   Culina, Antica ^a   Farine, Damien R ^a,c,d   Firth, Josh A ^a   Hinde, Camilla A ^a,e   Kidd, Lindall R ^a   Milligan, Nicole D ^a   Roberts, Stephen J ^a   Verhelst, Brecht ^a   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Thought Machine Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flocks; Gathering events; Great tits; Group detection; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937764374     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-015-1906-0     Document Type: Article

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