From aggregation to dispersion: how habitat fragmentation prevents the emergence of consensual decision making in a group.

In fragmented landscape, individuals have to cope with the fragmentation level in order to aggregate in the same patch and take advantage of group-living. Aggregation results from responses to environmental heterogeneities and/or positive influence of the presence of congeners. In this context, the...

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Main Authors: Grégory Sempo, Stéphane Canonge, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3823946?pdf=render