The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks
Abstract Scale remains a foundational concept in ecology. Spatial scale, for instance, has become a central consideration in the way we understand landscape ecology and animal space use. Meanwhile, scale-dependent social processes can range from fine-scale interactions to co-occurrence and overlappi...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/cz/zoaa052 2024-04-07T07:51:49+00:00 The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks Robitaille, Alec L Webber, Quinn M R Turner, Julie W Vander Wal, Eric Silk, Matthew Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa052 http://academic.oup.com/cz/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/cz/zoaa052/34571454/zoaa052.pdf http://academic.oup.com/cz/article-pdf/67/1/113/40510938/zoaa052.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Current Zoology volume 67, issue 1, page 113-123 ISSN 2396-9814 Animal Science and Zoology journal-article 2020 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa052 2024-03-08T02:59:05Z Abstract Scale remains a foundational concept in ecology. Spatial scale, for instance, has become a central consideration in the way we understand landscape ecology and animal space use. Meanwhile, scale-dependent social processes can range from fine-scale interactions to co-occurrence and overlapping home ranges. Furthermore, sociality can vary within and across seasons. Multilayer networks promise the explicit integration of the social, spatial, and temporal contexts. Given the complex interplay of sociality and animal space use in heterogeneous landscapes, there remains an important gap in our understanding of the influence of scale on animal social networks. Using an empirical case study, we discuss ways of considering social, spatial, and temporal scale in the context of multilayer caribou social networks. Effective integration of social and spatial processes, including biologically meaningful scales, within the context of animal social networks is an emerging area of research. We incorporate perspectives that link the social environment to spatial processes across scales in a multilayer context. Article in Journal/Newspaper caribou Oxford University Press Current Zoology 67 1 113 123 |
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Abstract Scale remains a foundational concept in ecology. Spatial scale, for instance, has become a central consideration in the way we understand landscape ecology and animal space use. Meanwhile, scale-dependent social processes can range from fine-scale interactions to co-occurrence and overlapping home ranges. Furthermore, sociality can vary within and across seasons. Multilayer networks promise the explicit integration of the social, spatial, and temporal contexts. Given the complex interplay of sociality and animal space use in heterogeneous landscapes, there remains an important gap in our understanding of the influence of scale on animal social networks. Using an empirical case study, we discuss ways of considering social, spatial, and temporal scale in the context of multilayer caribou social networks. Effective integration of social and spatial processes, including biologically meaningful scales, within the context of animal social networks is an emerging area of research. We incorporate perspectives that link the social environment to spatial processes across scales in a multilayer context. |
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Silk, Matthew Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery |
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Robitaille, Alec L Webber, Quinn M R Turner, Julie W Vander Wal, Eric |
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The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks |
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The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks |
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The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks |
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The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks |
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The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks |
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problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks |
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