Exploring Animal Social Networks

Social network analysis is used widely in the social sciences to study interactions among people, groups, and organizations, yet until now there has been no book that shows behavioral biologists how to apply it to their work on animal populations.Exploring Animal Social Networksprovides a practical...

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Main Authors:	Croft, Darren P, James, Richard, Krause, Jens
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton Princeton University Press 2008
Edition:	1
Subjects:	Animal behavior Animal societies Artificial neural network Assortative mixing Behavioral ecology Behavioural sciences Betweenness Biological network Biological Sciences Biology Calculation Captivity (animal) Case study Centrality Cluster analysis Combinatorial optimization Community structure Complex network Correspondence analysis Data collection Decision-making Degree distribution Dendrogram Disease Ecology Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Embedding Ethology Evolution Food web Foraging Inference Life Sciences Logistic regression Mantel test Mating system Matrix population models Modularity (networks) NATURE / Ecology Network model Network motif Network theory Null model P-value Parasite load Pheromone Power law Predation Probability Randomization Result Sample Size Sampling (statistics) Sampling bias Sampling error SCIENCE SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology Sexual selection Small-world experiment Social behavior Social behavior in animals Social environment Social group Social network Social network analysis Social organization Social relation Social science Social structure Sociality Sociobiology Sociogram Statistic Statistical hypothesis testing Test statistic The Evolution of Cooperation Toy model User interface Zoology Cluster analysis Decision-making Ethology Disease Social group Small-world experiment Foraging Behavioral ecology Result Sociality Sampling (statistics) Network theory Social behavior Mantel test Calculation Sampling bias Community structure Sampling error Sexual selection Social structure Matrix population models Pheromone Inference Sociobiology Biological network Case study Mating system Betweenness Logistic regression Sample Size Social science Parasite load Complex network Social organization Artificial neural network Social environment Embedding Biology Combinatorial optimization Randomization Food web Correspondence analysis Social relation Statistic Network model User interface Evolution The Evolution of Cooperation P-value Power law Network motif Behavioural sciences Social network analysis Captivity (animal) Test statistic Modularity (networks) Null model Centrality Probability Social network Data set Ecology Dendrogram Assortative mixing Degree distribution Toy model Sociogram Data collection Statistical hypothesis testing Predation
ISBN:	9780691127521, 0691127522, 0691127514, 9780691127514, 9781400837762, 1400837766
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Summary:	Social network analysis is used widely in the social sciences to study interactions among people, groups, and organizations, yet until now there has been no book that shows behavioral biologists how to apply it to their work on animal populations.Exploring Animal Social Networksprovides a practical guide for researchers, undergraduates, and graduate students in ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and zoology. Existing methods for studying animal social structure focus either on one animal and its interactions or on the average properties of a whole population. This book enables researchers to probe animal social structure at all levels, from the individual to the population. No prior knowledge of network theory is assumed. The authors give a step-by-step introduction to the different procedures and offer ideas for designing studies, collecting data, and interpreting results. They examine some of today's most sophisticated statistical tools for social network analysis and show how they can be used to study social interactions in animals, including cetaceans, ungulates, primates, insects, and fish. Drawing from an array of techniques, the authors explore how network structures influence individual behavior and how this in turn influences, and is influenced by, behavior at the population level. Throughout, the authors use two software packages--UCINET and NETDRAW--to illustrate how these powerful analytical tools can be applied to different animal social organizations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index
ISBN:	9780691127521 0691127522 0691127514 9780691127514 9781400837762 1400837766
DOI:	10.1515/9781400837762