The role of social and ecological processes in structuring animal populations: A case study from automated tracking of wild birds

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Great tit; Group living; Immigration; Paridae; Social organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939138247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150057     Document Type: Article

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