Social Interaction in Animals: Linking Experimental Approach and Social Network Analysis

• Main Author: Cedric Sueur (auth)
• Other Authors: Frederic Mery (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Insects; social network analysis; Social transmission; Primates; Social Behaviour; network dynamics; Epidemiology; sociality; methodology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Understanding the link between individual behaviour and population organization and functioning has long been central to ecology and evolutionary biology. Behaviour is a response to intrinsic and extrinsic factors including individual state, ecological factors or social interactions. Within a group,...