Social network analysis provides a broad and complex perspective on animal sociality that
is widely applicable to almost any species. Recent applications demonstrate the utility of …

Animal societies are shaped both by social processes and by the physical environment in
which social interactions take place. While many studies take the observed patterns of inter …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Demographic processes play a key role in shaping the patterns of social relations among
individuals in a population. Social network analysis is a powerful quantitative tool for …

The recent renaissance within animal geography has tended to focus on the spatial
orderings of animals by humans, rather than on the lived geographies and experiences of …

Landscape connectivity, the extent to which a landscape facilitates the flow of ecological
processes such as organism movement, has emerged as a central focus of landscape …

Individual identification and photographic techniques in mammalian ecological and behavioural
research—Part 1: Methods and concepts | SpringerLink Skip to main content Advertisement …

Almost all animal social groups show some form of fission–fusion dynamics, whereby group
membership is not spatio‐temporally stable. These dynamics have major implications at …

Animal social interactions have an intrinsic spatial basis as many of these interactions occur
in spatial proximity. This presents a dilemma when determining causality: Do individuals …

Social structure is a fundamental component of a population that drives ecological and
evolutionary processes ranging from parasite transmission to sexual selection …