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Reality mining of animal social systems.
Jens Krause,Stefan Krause,Robert Arlinghaus,Robert Arlinghaus,Ioannis Psorakis,Stephen J. Roberts,Christian Rutz +6 more
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Important issues concerning the collection of data on the social dynamics of almost entire populations of individuals, and their processing and analysis, are reviewed to identify the most promising approaches in the emerging field of 'reality mining'.Abstract:
The increasing miniaturisation of animal-tracking technology has made it possible to gather exceptionally detailed machine-sensed data on the social dynamics of almost entire populations of individuals, in both terrestrial and aquatic study systems. Here, we review important issues concerning the collection of such data, and their processing and analysis, to identify the most promising approaches in the emerging field of 'reality mining'. Automated technologies can provide data sensing at time intervals small enough to close the gap between social patterns and their underlying processes, providing insights into how social structures arise and change dynamically over different timescales. Especially in conjunction with experimental manipulations, reality mining promises significant advances in basic and applied research on animal social systems.read more
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Everybody has a social life. Can social network analysis help us understand why not just how? Comment on Pinter-Wollman et al.
TL;DR: It is needed to get beyond the descriptive and use SNA to answer functional questions about sociality and to test relevant ecological and evolutionary hypotheses, which is the central premise of the review by Pinter-Wollman et al. (2013).
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Defining an epidemiological landscape that connects movement ecology to pathogen transmission and pace-of-life.
Kezia R. Manlove,Mark Q. Wilber,Lauren A. White,Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau,Ann-Chi Yang,Marie L. J. Gilbertson,Meggan E. Craft,Paul C. Cross,George Wittemyer,Kim M. Pepin +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors introduce a "movementpathogen pace of life" heuristic to identify aspects of movement that have the most influence on spatial epidemiology, and link pathogen transmission directly to the environment, offering an efficient path for using environmental information to inform models describing when and where transmission will occur.
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A guide to using GPS-based tracking to study animal societies
TL;DR: In this article , the authors integrate previous insights from animal social network analysis with simulated and empirical data to provide quantitative recommendations when designing GPS-based tracking studies of animal societies, and highlight the importance of identifying the optimal deployment decisions for drawing informative and robust conclusions.
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Assessing the reliability of an automated method for measuring dominance hierarchy in non-human primates.
Sébastien Ballesta,Baptiste Sadoughi,Fabia Miss,Fabia Miss,Jamie Whitehouse,Geraud Semevo Aguenounon,Hélène Meunier +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used machines for automated learning and testing (MALT) to measure the dominance hierarchy of a semi-free-ranging primate group and found that dominance relationships inferred from these interactions strongly correlated with the ones derived from observations of spontaneous agonistic interactions collected during the same time period.
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