The keystone individual concept: an ecological and evolutionary overview

By Andreas P Modlmeier, C. N. Keiser, Jason Watters, Andrew Sih, J. Pruitt. 2014

214 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• The development of collective personality: the ontogenetic drivers of behavioral variation across groups (2014, background): “…or a few " key " individuals (also referred to as " keystone " , Modlmeier et al., 2014b; " elites " , Pinter-Wollman et al., 2012b; " leaders " , Conradt and Roper, 2003) can have disproportionate influence on the behaviors of others in the group (for a full review see Modlmeier et al., 2014b).”
• How demographic processes shape animal social networks (2019, background): “For example, the loss of “keystone” individuals—individuals which are highly connected, dominant, and/or perform important social functions—may have a more significant effect on network structure than the loss of a random individual (Modlmeier et al. 2014).”