Social Organization and Information Transfer in Schooling Fishes

Fish Cognition and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 166-185

  Couzin, Iain D ^a   James, Richard ^b   Mawdsley, David ^b   Croft, Darren P ^c   Krause, Jens ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information transfer; Integrated collective motion; Schooling fishes; Social organization; Stimuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948123263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996058.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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