The role of weighted and topological network information to understand animal social networks: A null model approach

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 113, Issue , 2016, Pages 215-228

  Rankin, Robert W ^a   Mann, Janet ^b   Singh, Lisa ^b   Patterson, Eric M ^b   Krzyszczyk, Ewa ^b   Bejder, Lars ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Bottlenose dolphin; Community structure; Maximum entropy; Network topology; Social network

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

EID: 84957106497     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.12.015     Document Type: Note

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