Social structure in a colonial mammal: unravelling hidden structural layers and their foundations by network analysis☆

By J. Wolf, D. Mawdsley, F. Trillmich, Richard James. 2007

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

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Social behaviour in sharks and rays: analysis, patterns and implications for conservation (2012, background): “Furthermore, by integrating attribute data such as sex, age or size within the social network, the biological relevance of aggregation behaviour becomes clearer (Wolf et al. 2007; Croft et al. 2008) with foraging behaviour (Morrell et al.”
Sampling animal association networks with the gambit of the group (2009, unknown): “A network approach is often applied as a descriptive tool to help understand the social structure of a population (e.g., dolphins, Lusseau 2003; fish, Croft et al. 2004; African buffalos, Cross et al. 2004; and sea lions, Wolf et al. 2007).”
Female bisexual kinship ties maintain social cohesion in a dolphin network (2010, background): “Animal populations assort byavarietyof characteristics including sex (reviewed in Ruckstuhl 2007), age (Smith et al. 2002; Silk et al. 2006a; Wolf et al. 2007; Manno 2008), kinship (reviewed in Silk 2002), reproductive status (Sundaresan et al.”
The role of habitat configuration in shaping social structure: a gap in studies of animal social complexity (2019, background): “network (Wolf et al. 2007) and was thought to produce genetic assortment at the level of the population (see Wolf and Trillmich 2008).”
Fission–fusion dynamics in wild giraffes may be driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences (2013, background): “2005), whereas males are motivated more by the distribution and social organization of females (Wittemyer et al. 2005; Wolf et al. 2007).”
The social network structure of a wild meerkat population: 1. Inter-group interactions (2009, methodology): “…but such methods have not been used to analyse interactions between groups within a population At its simplest, SNA may be used to determine who is connected to whom in a population and by what relationship (e.g. Croft et al. 2004; Lusseau and Newman 2004; Wolf et al. 2007; Ryder et al. 2008).”
Social cohesion in a hierarchically structured embayment population of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (2009, background): “…et al. 2005), hamadryas baboons, Papio hamadryas hamadryas (reviewed in Hill et al. 2008), killer whales, Orcinus orca (Ford et al. 2000) and Galapagos sealions Zalophus wollebaeki (Wolf et al. 2007), where social tiers assist individuals to cope with variable ecological and social pressures.”
Do social networks of female northern long-eared bats vary with reproductive period and age? (2010, background): “…costs and benefits of social living and ecological constraints (Alexander 1974; Komdeur 2006) associated with individual characteristics, such as sex, age, reproductive condition, and relatedness (Conradt and Roper 2000; Hinde 1976; Ruckstuhl and Neuhaus 2002; Silk 2007; Wolf et al. 2005, 2007).”
A Comparison of Social Organization in Asian Elephants and African Savannah Elephants (2012, background): “Moreover, societies exhibiting multilevel structure along this continuum may be more widespread than initially supposed (Wolf et al. 2007).”
Disentangling social networks from spatiotemporal dynamics: the temporal structure of a dolphin society (2012, background): “Different mechanisms drive the modular structure of a social network and detecting them is critical for understanding the forces driving social patterns (e.g. Lusseau et al. 2006; Wolf et al. 2007; Wiszniewski et al. 2009; Daura-Jorge et al. 2012).”
Social dynamics among females and their influence on social structure in an East African chimpanzee community (2013, unknown): “…in a diverse array of fissionefusion societies, such as African elephants, Loxodonta africana (Moss & Poole 1983), sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus (Whitehead & Weilgart 2000), Galápagos sea lions, Zalophus wollebaeki (Wolf et al. 2007), and spider monkeys, Ateles geoffroyi (Fedigan 1984).”
Animal social networks: an introduction (2009, methodology): “…et al. (2005) to find multiple levels of social structure in bats, Thyroptera tricolor, and elephants, Loxodonta africana, respectively, while Wolf et al. (2007) used an explicitly network-based approach to find unexpected layers of social structure in a colony of sea lions, Zalophus…”
Developing a deeper understanding of animal movements and spatial dynamics through novel application of network analyses (2012, background): “described for the home ranges of Galápagos sealions, Zalophus wollebaeki for example (Wolf et al. 2007).”