Animal Social Networks
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 December 2014
- ISBN 9780199679041
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 253x194x18 mm
- Weight 780 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book demonstrates the application of network theory to the social organization of animals.
MoreLong description:
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 field of animal behaviour relatively late compared to many other biological disciplines. Understanding social network structure is of great importance for biologists since the structural characteristics of any network will affect its constituent members and influence a range of diverse behaviours. These include finding and choosing a sexual partner, developing and maintaining cooperative relationships, and engaging in foraging and anti-predator behavior.
This novel text provides an overview of the insights that network analysis has provided into major biological processes, and how it has enhanced our understanding of the social organisation of several important taxonomic groups. It brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing both an overview of the power of the network approach for understanding patterns and process in animal populations, as well as outlining how current methodological constraints and challenges can be overcome.
Animal Social Networks is principally aimed at graduate level students and researchers in the fields of ecology, zoology, animal behaviour, and evolutionary biology but will also be of interest to social scientists.
Animal Social Networks is a rich overview of the current state of social network research in animal behavior and provides readers with a strong grounding in theory and a wealth of ideas that could be addressed in future research projects. It serves as a wonderful introduction to network thinking and promotes a shift in perspective from networks as tools to networks as fundamentally underlying much of the social behavior we see in animals.
Table of Contents:
Section I: Introduction
General Introduction
Network Primer
Section II: Patterns and Processes
Assortment in social networks and the evolution of cooperation
Mating behaviour: Sexual networks and sexual selection
Quantifying diffusion on social networks: a Bayesian Approach
Personality and social network analysis in animals
Temporal changes in dominance networks and other behavior sequences
Group movement and social networks
Communication
Disease transmission
Social networks and animal welfare
Section III: Taxonomic Overviews
Primate social networks
Oceanic societies: Studying cetaceans with a social networks approach
The network approach in teleost fishes and elasmobranchs
Social networks in insect colonies
Perspectives on social network analyses of bird populations
Networks of terrestrial ungulates: linking form and function
Linking lizards: Social networks in reptiles
General Conclusion
