Stephan T. Leu

TL;DR: A conceptual framework for personality-dependent spatial ecology is proposed that links expectations derived from the movement ecology paradigm with behavioural reaction-norms to offer specific predictions on the interactions between environmental factors, such as resource distribution or landscape structure, and intrinsic behavioural variation.

TL;DR: It is found that disease risk is largely unaffected by modular structure, although social networks beyond a modular threshold experience smaller disease burden and longer disease duration, and network models incorporating modular structure are necessary only when prior knowledge suggests that interactions within the population are highly subdivided.

TL;DR: A novel method that randomizes path segments among different time stamps within each individual separately is proposed, demonstrating its ability to reveal the social organization in free‐ranging animals while accounting for confounding factors of environmental spatiotemporal heterogeneity.

TL;DR: The response to altered ecological conditions can differ fundamentally between species or between populations, and it is suggested that it depends on their tendency for gregarious behaviour.

TL;DR: This study investigated whether asynchronous overnight refuge sharing among neighboring sleepy lizards, Tiliqua rugosa, facilitates indirect transmission of its ectoparasitic tick, Amblyomma limbatum, and constructed a transmission network to estimate the cross-infection risk based on asynchronous refuge sharing frequencies among all lizards and the life history traits of the tick.