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Author_Jens Krause
Author_Richard James
Behavioral ecology
Behavioural sciences
Betweenness
Biological network
Biology
Calculation
Captivity (animal)
Case study
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Centrality
Cluster analysis
Combinatorial optimization
Community structure
Complex network
Correspondence analysis
Data collection
Data set
Decision-making
Degree distribution
Dendrogram
Disease
Ecology
Embedding
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Ethology
Evolution
Food web
Foraging
Inference
Logistic regression
Mantel test
Mating system
Matrix population models
Modularity (networks)
Network model
Network motif
Network theory
Null model
P-value
Parasite load
Pheromone
Power law
Predation
Probability
Randomization
Result
Sample Size
Sampling (statistics)
Sampling bias
Sampling error
Sexual selection
Small-world experiment
Social behavior
Social environment
Social group
Social network
Social network analysis
Social organization
Social relation
Social science
Social structure
Sociality
Sociobiology
Sociogram
Statistic
Statistical hypothesis testing
Test statistic
The Evolution of Cooperation
Toy model
User interface
Product details
- ISBN 9780691127521
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Social network analysis is used widely in the social sciences to study interactions among people, groups, and organizations, yet until now there has been no book that shows behavioral biologists how to apply it to their work on animal populations. Exploring Animal Social Networks provides a practical guide for researchers, undergraduates, and graduate students in ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and zoology. Existing methods for studying animal social structure focus either on one animal and its interactions or on the average properties of a whole population. This book enables researchers to probe animal social structure at all levels, from the individual to the population. No prior knowledge of network theory is assumed. The authors give a step-by-step introduction to the different procedures and offer ideas for designing studies, collecting data, and interpreting results. They examine some of today's most sophisticated statistical tools for social network analysis and show how they can be used to study social interactions in animals, including cetaceans, ungulates, primates, insects, and fish.
Drawing from an array of techniques, the authors explore how network structures influence individual behavior and how this in turn influences, and is influenced by, behavior at the population level. Throughout, the authors use two software packages--UCINET and NETDRAW--to illustrate how these powerful analytical tools can be applied to different animal social organizations.
Darren P. Croft is lecturer in animal behavior at the University of Wales, Bangor. Richard James is senior lecturer in physics at the University of Bath. Jens Krause is professor of behavioral ecology at the University of Leeds.
