The importance of fission-fusion social group dynamics in birds

Measuring phenotypic assortment in animal social networks: weighted associations are more robust than binary edges

(2014) Damien R. Farine   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Contrasting context dependence of familiarity and kinship in animal social networks

(2013) Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The dynamics of animal social networks: analytical, conceptual, and theoretical advances

(2013) N. Pinter-Wollman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The early bird gets the worm: foraging strategies of wild songbirds lead to the early discovery of food sources

(2013) D. R. Farine et al.   Biology Letters

Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major)

(2013) L. M. Aplin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The decline of Afro-Palaearctic migrants and an assessment of potential causes

(2013) Juliet A. Vickery et al.   IBIS

Reality mining of animal social systems

(2013) Jens Krause et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Disentangling social networks from spatiotemporal dynamics: the temporal structure of a dolphin society

(2012) Maurício Cantor et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social bonds and rank acquisition in raven nonbreeder aggregations

(2012) Anna Braun et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social network analysis of mixed-species flocks: exploring the structure and evolution of interspecific social behaviour

(2012) Damien R. Farine et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

What is a subgroup? How socioecological factors influence interindividual distance

(2012) Filippo Aureli et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Social organisation of thornbill-dominated mixed-species flocks using social network analysis

(2012) Damien R. Farine et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Network position: a key component in the characterization of social personality types

(2012) Alexander D. M. Wilson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Long-term familiarity promotes joining in neighbour nest defence

(2012) A. M. Grabowska-Zhang et al.   Biology Letters

Social networks and the spread ofSalmonellain a sleepy lizard population

(2012) C. M. BULL et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Direct reciprocity in structured populations

(2012) M. van Veelen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social bonds affect anti-predator behaviour in a tolerant species of macaque, Macaca nigra

(2012) J. Micheletta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Kin selection, not group augmentation, predicts helping in an obligate cooperatively breeding bird

(2012) L. E. Browning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds

(2012) L. M. Aplin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence of social communities in a spatially structured network of a free-ranging shark species

(2011) Johann Mourier et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Reciprocity of agonistic support in ravens

(2011) Orlaith N. Fraser et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Effects of neighbor familiarity on reproductive success in the great tit (Parus major)

(2011) Ada M. Grabowska-Zhang et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The composition, stability, and kinship of reproductive coalitions in a lekking bird

(2011) Thomas B. Ryder et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

THE EVOLUTION OF GENERALIZED RECIPROCITY ON SOCIAL INTERACTION NETWORKS

(2011) Gerrit Sander van Doorn et al.   EVOLUTION

Collective decision-making and fission-fusion dynamics: a conceptual framework

(2011) Cédric Sueur et al.   OIKOS

Strength of Social Tie Predicts Cooperative Investment in a Human Social Network

(2011) Freya Harrison et al.   PLoS One

Detecting Instability in Animal Social Networks: Genetic Fragmentation Is Associated with Social Instability in Rhesus Macaques

(2011) Brianne A. Beisner et al.   PLoS One

Spatial Heterogeneity in Resource Distribution Promotes Facultative Sociality in Two Trans-Saharan Migratory Birds

(2011) Ainara Cortés-Avizanda et al.   PLoS One

Understanding the ecological drivers of avian influenza virus infection in wildfowl: a continental-scale study across Africa

(2011) N. Gaidet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bats are able to maintain long-term social relationships despite the high fission-fusion dynamics of their groups

(2011) G. Kerth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Colour change and assortment in the western rainbowfish

(2010) Gwendolen M. Rodgers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Group cohesiveness during collective movements: Travelling apart together

(2010) Armand Jacobs   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Personality and social context

(2010) Mike M. Webster et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Individual Recognition Affects Aggression and Dominance Relations in Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

(2010) Jörgen I. Johnsson   ETHOLOGY

Cryptic Kin Selection: Kin Structure in Vertebrate Populations and Opportunities for Kin-Directed Cooperation

(2010) Ben J. Hatchwell   ETHOLOGY

Stopping vs. staging: the difference between a hop and a jump

(2010) Nils Warnock   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Short-term group fission processes in macaques: a social networking approach

(2010) C. Sueur et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Reconstructing an annual cycle of interaction: natural infection and antibody dynamics to avian influenza along a migratory flyway

(2010) Bethany J. Hoye et al.   OIKOS

Personality in the context of social networks

(2010) J. Krause et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Scale-free correlations in starling flocks

(2010) A. Cavagna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological determinants of herd size in the Thornicroft’s giraffe of Zambia

(2009) Fred B. Bercovitch et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Vigilance in ursine black and white colobus monkeys (Colobus vellerosus): an examination of the effects of conspecific threat and predation

(2009) Andrew J.J. MacIntosh et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Structured association patterns and their energetic benefits in female eastern grey kangaroos, Macropus giganteus

(2009) Alecia J. Carter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social cohesion in a hierarchically structured embayment population of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins

(2009) Joanna Wiszniewski et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Personality differences explain leadership in barnacle geese

(2009) Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Young-boy networks without kin clusters in a lek-mating manakin

(2009) David B. McDonald   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Fissioning minimizes ranging costs in spider monkeys: a multiple-level approach

(2009) Norberto Asensio et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Behavioural trait assortment in a social network: patterns and implications

(2009) Darren P. Croft et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Cyclicity in the structure of female baboon social networks

(2009) S. P. Henzi et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists

(2009) Andrew Sih et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Whom do the sparrows follow? The effect of kinship on social preference in house sparrow flocks

(2009) Zoltán Tóth et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Group-size-mediated habitat selection and group fusion–fission dynamics of bison under predation risk

(2009) Daniel Fortin et al.   ECOLOGY

Contact networks in a wild Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population: using social network analysis to reveal seasonal variability in social behaviour and its implications for transmission of devil facial tumour disease

(2009) Rodrigo K. Hamede et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Influence of Winter Ranging Behaviour on the Social Organization of a Cooperatively Breeding Bird Species, The Apostlebird

(2009) Michael Griesser et al.   ETHOLOGY

The effect of personality on social foraging: shy barnacle geese scrounge more

(2009) R. H. J. M. Kurvers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Personality and collective decision-making in foraging herbivores

(2009) P. Michelena et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality

(2008) Tina Wey et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Aerial flocking patterns of wintering starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, under different predation risk

(2008) Claudio Carere et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

What is the magnitude of the group-size effect on vigilance?

(2008) Guy Beauchamp   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Association patterns among wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) reflect sex differences in cooperation

(2008) Ian C. Gilby et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The effect of body coloration and group size on social partner preferences in female fighting fish (Betta splendens)

(2008) C. Blakeslee et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Causes and Consequences of Sociality in Bats

(2008) Gerald Kerth   BIOSCIENCE

Effects of supplemental food on intra-and inter-specific behaviour of the Varied Tit Parus varius

(2008) HARUO KUBOTA et al.   IBIS

Individual associations in a wintering shorebird population: do Dunlin have friends?

(2008) Jesse R. Conklin et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Interaction ruling animal collective behavior depends on topological rather than metric distance: Evidence from a field study

(2008) M. Ballerini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Highly structured fission–fusion societies in an aerial-hawking, carnivorous bat

(2007) Ana G. Popa-Lisseanu et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR