Identifying the role that animals play in their social networks

By David Lusseau, Mark Newman. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2004

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A complex social structure with fission–fusion properties can emerge from a simple foraging model (2005, neutral): “The dolphin societies studied by Lusseau and Newman (2004) are formed of 618 clustered sub-communities that are linked to each other by a few “broker” individuals.”
The Evolution of Tag-Based Cooperation in Humans (2012, background): “…people to form ties” (Apicella et al. 2012: 497)—on Hadza social assortment suggests the importance of general self-similarity mechanisms in line with account 3 (see also Krupp, Debruine, and Barclay 2008; Lusseau and Newman 2004; McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Cook 2001; Wey and Blumstein 2010).”
Female bisexual kinship ties maintain social cohesion in a dolphin network (2010, background): “…losing individuals fromapopulation, through either death or emigration, vary not only with population size but also with the individual’s functional role and the structural properties of the network (Lusseau & Newman 2004; Williams & Lusseau 2006; Manno 2008; but see Flack et al. 2006).”
Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists (2009, background): “Lusseau and Newman (2004) showed, intriguingly, that in a bottl nose dolphin (Tursiops truncates) community in Scotla d, one keyst ne individual that was the high centrality bridge be ween two subgroups apparently played a c itical role in maintaining a connection between thes two groups.”
Community Structure in Graphs (2007, background): “So, communities may correspond to groups of pages of the World Wide Web dealing with related topics [11], to functional modules such as cycles and pathways in metabolic networks [12, 13], to groups of related individuals in social networks [14, 15], to compartments in food webs [16, 17], and so on.”
Social networking in the Columbian ground squirrel, Spermophilus columbianus (2008, background): “Association of animals of different sex and age can be an important mechanism in group formation with a few individuals holding structurally important positions in their society (Lusseau & Newman 2004; Croft et al. 2005).”
Do social networks of female northern long-eared bats vary with reproductive period and age? (2010, background): “Similarly, it has been suggested that young individuals play a stabilizing role in response to changing group composition among bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops spp.; Lusseau and Newman 2004), Campbell’s monkeys (Cercopithecus campbelli; Lemasson et al.”
Social cohesion in a hierarchically structured embayment population of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (2009, background): “Where communities are not discretely structured, however (e.g. Chilvers & Corkeron 2001; Lusseau & Newman 2004; Lusseau et al. 2006), recent statistical developments in network techniques (Newman 2004, 2006a; Lusseau et al. 2008) can help detect statistically significant divisions in the…”
Social and Behavioural Factors in Cetacean Responses to Overexploitation: Are Odontocetes Less “Resilient” Than Mysticetes? (2012, background): “More speculative but interesting are other extended ramifications, such as the possible collapse of social networks through the removal of key individuals [70, 71], leading to the formation of new groups and dispersal of individuals, potentially causing higher mortality rates, as observed in wolves ”
Potential banana skins in animal social network analysis (2009, methodology): “Network theory has already made contributions to a number of areas in animal behaviour including the role of individuals in groups or populations (Lusseau and Newman 2004; Williams and Lusseau 2006), the social organisation of populations (Wittemyer et al. 2005; Croft et al. 2005; Flack et…”
The development of collective personality: the ontogenetic drivers of behavioral variation across groups (2014, background): “In other groups, key individuals may simply maintain or improve social order and cohesion, such as bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus, Lusseau and Newman, 2004) and pigtailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina, Flack et al., 2006).”
Early social development in wild bottlenose dolphins: sex differences, individual variation and maternal influence (2008, background): “Despite the attention that has been given to the complex nature of fissionefusion society in bottlenose dolphins (e.g. Connor et al. 1998, 2000, 2001; Lusseau 2003; Wells 2003; Lusseau & Newman 2004), the role of early experience in social development has not been explored.”
Finding Statistically Significant Communities in Networks (2010, neutral): “tances in social networks [8–10], subsets of Web pages on the same”
Social network analysis of animal behaviour : a promising tool for the study of sociality (2008, background): “As in humans, affiliation by sex and age were important in group formation in these animals (but interestingly, unlike humans, dolphins did not affiliate by degree), and a few individuals held structurally important positions in the social network (Lusseau & Newman 2004).”
The keystone individual concept: an ecological and evolutionary overview (2014, background): “For instance, Lusseau and Newman (2004) showed that populations of bottlenose dolphins contain ‘brokers’ that connect different subpopulations and thereby increase social cohesion of the whole population.”
Modelling the biological significance of behavioural change in coastal bottlenose dolphins in response to disturbance (2013, background): “A new school is chosen based on its proximity, activity and average association with the proposed new school, which is determined by the type of individual (Lusseau & Newman 2004).”