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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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Constructing, conducting and interpreting animal social network analysis
TL;DR: The under‐exploited potential of experimental manipulations on social networks to address research questions is highlighted, and an overview of methods for quantifying properties of nodes and networks, as well as for testing hypotheses concerning network structure and network processes are provided.
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Automated image-based tracking and its application in ecology
Anthony I. Dell,John A. Bender,Kristin Branson,Iain D. Couzin,Gonzalo G. de Polavieja,Lucas P. J. J. Noldus,Alfonso Pérez-Escudero,Pietro Perona,Andrew Straw,Martin Wikelski,Martin Wikelski,Ulrich Brose +11 more
TL;DR: Automated image-based tracking should continue to advance the field of ecology by enabling better understanding of the linkages between individual and higher-level ecological processes, via high-throughput quantitative analysis of complex ecological patterns and processes across scales, including analysis of environmental drivers.
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Applications of machine learning in animal behaviour studies
TL;DR: This review aims to introduce animal behaviourists unfamiliar with machine learning (ML) to the promise of these techniques for the analysis of complex behavioural data and illustrate key ML approaches by developing data analytical pipelines for three different case studies that exemplify the types of behavioural and ecological questions ML can address.
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A guide to null models for animal social network analysis.
TL;DR: It is shown that permutations of the raw observational (or ‘pre‐network’) data consistently account for underlying structure in the generated social network, and thus can reduce both type I and type II error rates.
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Infectious disease transmission and contact networks in wildlife and livestock
TL;DR: The rising popularity of network approaches for understanding transmission dynamics in wild animal and livestock populations is described; the common mismatch between contact networks as measured in animal behaviour and relevant parasites to match those networks is discussed; and knowledge gaps in how to collect and analyse contact data are highlighted.
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