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Heuristic definitions of fish shoaling behaviour
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pitcher, T. J.
- Venue
- Animal Behaviour
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1983-05
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 611-613
- ISSN
- 0003-3472 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1968367630
- Cited by
- 283
- References
- 20
- FWCI
- 8.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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