Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 284, Issue 1854, 2017, Pages

  Firth, Josh A ^a   Voelkl, Bernhard ^a,b   Crates, Ross A ^a,c   Aplin, Lucy M ^a   Biro, Dora ^a   Croft, Darren P ^d   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Population declines; Social bonds; Social foraging; Social networks; Social perturbation; Social structure

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DECLINE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES FLOCK; TRACKING; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85019648122     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0299     Document Type: Article

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