Group Size in Dominance-Structured Populations
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Ornis Scandinavica
- Vol. 20 (2) , 86-88
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3676872
Abstract
The decision of individuals to join flocks can be treated as analogous to a habitat selection game. When fitness decreases monotonically with rank in dominance-...This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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