Socially interacting or indifferent neighbours? Randomization of movement paths to tease apart social preference and spatial constraints

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 971-979

  Spiegel, Orr ^a   Leu, Stephan T ^b   Sih, Andrew ^a   Bull, C Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bias correlated random Walk; biotelemetry; contact networks; GPS tracking; movement ecology; permutation tests; social networks; spatial networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963805018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12553     Document Type: Article

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