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Multidisciplinary Sciences
L. Monica Trondrud, Cassandra Ugland, Erik Ropstad, Leif Egil Loe, Steve Albon, Audun Stien, Alina L. Evans, Per Medboe Thorsby, Vebjorn Veiberg, R. Justin Irvine, Gabriel Pigeon
Summary: The study shows that while single annual capture events have no significant negative consequences for Svalbard reindeer, repeated captures within a season may impact offspring survival in the same year, highlighting the importance of addressing multiple indicators of animal responses to repeated captures.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Jordan M. Bush, Michael Ellison, Daniel Simberloff
Summary: Interspecific aggression has important fitness consequences and can lead to declines in native species during species invasions. This study investigated the immediate behavioural consequences of interactions between native green anole lizards and invasive Cuban brown anoles. The results showed that green anoles exhibited smaller home ranges and higher perch heights after the invasion, but these changes were not caused by aggression from the brown anole invaders. Both species preferred to interact with conspecifics, and escalated aggressive behaviours between the two species were rare. The findings suggest that high population densities of brown anoles, rather than direct competition, may be driving the displacement of green anoles across the brown anole's invasive range.
Article
Ecology
Ashild Onvik Pedersen, Larissa T. Beumer, Ronny Aanes, Brage B. Hansen
Summary: This study examines the winter-foraging strategies of high-arctic wild Svalbard reindeer using ten years of data, finding that the effects of winter severity on habitat use are density-dependent and that snowpack depth and hardness have a stronger influence on foraging behavior.
Article
Biology
S. Wild, M. Chimento, K. McMahon, D. R. Farine, B. C. Sheldon, L. M. Aplin
Summary: This study tracks the cultural diffusion of foraging behaviors in great tits and finds that the birds can socially learn and recombine skills, but acquisition is not entirely through social learning. Instead, birds reconstruct the complete solution step by step. Although singular cultural traditions do not emerge, subpopulations of birds share preferences for behavioral variants.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Emily A. A. Hughes, Samuel Ellis, Joanne R. R. Smith
Summary: Research in the social identity tradition recognizes the importance of identity compatibility for our health and well-being, but current measures do not fully capture the complexity of our social identity networks and associated behaviors. By adopting a network approach, this study explores the co-occurrence of different group memberships within individuals and identifies shared behaviors among identities. The findings provide valuable insights for researchers studying identities, group norms, and associated behaviors.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Computer Science, Information Systems
Sebastian Schoetteler, Sven Laumer, Heidi Schuhbauer
Summary: Employees often use enterprise social media (ESM) for communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing, leading to ESM networks. Research has shown that the consequences for employees largely depend on their positions in these networks. However, a synthesis of these studies is lacking, hindering a holistic understanding of the effects on employees and identifying research gaps. This paper addresses these gaps by reviewing literature and proposing a research agenda.
BUSINESS & INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Biology
Josh J. Arbon, Luca G. Hahn, Guillam E. McIvor, Alex Thornton
Summary: Animal cultures have been demonstrated in various species, but experiments often use conditions that do not reflect the natural environment. In experiments with wild jackdaws, individuals were able to exploit multiple new opportunities through generalization and social learning, and those who first innovated showed weak preferences. These results highlight the importance of generalization and the impact of natural competitive dynamics on culture formation.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Liqi Feng, Yaqin Zhao, Yichao Sun, Wenxuan Zhao, Jiaxi Tang
Summary: Monitoring the behavior of wild felines is important for their protection, and this paper proposes a two-stream network model that combines spatial and temporal networks to effectively recognize wild feline actions.
Article
Zoology
Tess Michelle Gingery, Duane Richard Diefenbach, Catharine Elizabeth Pritchard, David Charles Ensminger, Bret Daniel Wallingford, Christopher Scott Rosenberry
Summary: This study evaluated baseline cortisol concentrations in neonatal white-tailed deer for the first time, finding that elevated cortisol levels were associated with reduced survival probability. The research demonstrates that cortisol concentrations could provide a framework for better understanding susceptibility to mortality in neonatal white-tailed deer.
INTEGRATIVE ZOOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Statistics & Probability
George Gerogiannis, Mark Tranmer, Duncan Lee, Thomas Valente
Summary: The study introduces a novel multivariate spatio-network model to jointly model adolescent alcohol, cigarette and marijuana use behaviors, indicating the important roles played by individual factors and friendship networks in driving these behaviors.
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES C-APPLIED STATISTICS
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Alina Schaffer, Alvaro L. Caicoya, Montserrat Colell, Ruben Holland, Lorenzo von Fersen, Anja Widdig, Federica Amici
Summary: In ungulate species, individuals with higher social integration are more likely to exhibit neophobia, while rank and sex do not predict differences in neophobia. Additionally, species with larger group sizes tend to have lower levels of neophobia.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biology
Kristina B. Beck, Ben C. Sheldon, Josh A. Firth
Summary: The emergence and spread of novel behaviors through social learning can result in rapid changes at the population level, as social connections shape information flow. However, little is known about how information flow is influenced by individuals' learning mechanisms. By comparing four different learning mechanisms on wild great tit networks, we found that individuals with increased social connectivity and reduced social clustering acquired new behaviors faster. However, when the adoption of behaviors depended on the ratio of social connections to informed versus uninformed individuals, social connectivity had no impact on the order of acquisition. Additionally, specific learning mechanisms were found to limit behavioral spread within networks.
Article
Biology
Samin Gokcekus, Ella F. Cole, Ben C. Sheldon, Josh A. Firth
Summary: Understanding why individuals cooperate with genetically unrelated others is a major focus in biology. The social network approach is beneficial in identifying factors influencing cooperation, testing various routes to cooperation, and uncovering evolutionary and ecological pressures leading to differences in cooperation in natural populations.
BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Mahdi Rahimi, Mohammad Reza Malek, Christophe Claramunt, Thierry Le Pors
Summary: This paper presents a simplex-based enriched graph data model that integrates a discrete and place-based indoor spatial model with a spatial-social network. The model incorporates similarity and relevance measures from Q-analysis of simplicial complexes, along with an indoor-specific metric for processing spatial-social queries. Experimental implementation demonstrates the quantitative advantage of using graph-based representation and the qualitative superiority of simplex-based enrichment in handling spatial-social queries in indoor environments.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biology
Virginia K. Heinen, Lauren M. Benedict, Angela M. Pitera, Benjamin R. Sonnenberg, Eli S. Bridge, Vladimir V. Pravosudov
Summary: In wild food-caching mountain chickadees, spatial cognitive flexibility is associated with social dominance rank, especially in harsh environments at higher elevations. However, spatial learning and memory ability does not show consistent differences related to dominance rank. This suggests that spatial learning and memory ability in specialized food-caching species is a stable trait resilient to social influences.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Amy R. Sweeny, Gregory F. Albery, Saudamini Venkatesan, Andy Fenton, Amy B. Pedersen
Summary: This study investigated the impact of spatiotemporal variation on parasitism and found that season, host body condition, and sex were the key determinants of infection intensity. The effects of these factors varied over time but not in space, emphasizing the importance of long-term sampling for ecological research. Models fit to single years and site replicates often showed weak and variable detection of effects, highlighting the need for replication in both time and space in sampling designs.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Parasitology
Gregory F. Albery, Daniel J. Becker
Summary: Studies indicate that fast-lived mammal species tend to host more zoonoses, but the reasons for this association are not clear. It is necessary to link interspecific variation in life history with immunity, pathogen diversity, and other factors to better predict potential zoonotic reservoirs.
TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Virology
Megan A. Wallace, Kelsey A. Coffman, Clement Gilbert, Sanjana Ravindran, Gregory F. Albery, Jessica Abbott, Eliza Argyridou, Paola Bellosta, Andrea J. Betancourt, Herve Colinet, Katarina Eric, Amanda Glaser-Schmitt, Sonja Grath, Mihailo Jelic, Maaria Kankare, Iryna Kozeretska, Volker Loeschcke, Catherine Montchamp-Moreau, Lino Ometto, Banu Sebnem Onder, Dorcas J. Orengo, John Parsch, Marta Pascual, Aleksandra Patenkovic, Eva Puerma, Michael G. Ritchie, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Mads Fristrup Schou, Svitlana Serga, Marina Stamenkovic-Radak, Marija Tanaskovic, Marija Savic Veselinovic, Jorge Vieira, Cristina P. Vieira, Martin Kapun, Thomas Flatt, Josefa Gonzalez, Fabian Staubach, Darren J. Obbard
Summary: The study identified 14 DNA viruses from Drosophila collected in Europe, including three new nudiviruses and a virus related to entomopoxvirus. Drosophila Kallithea nudivirus and Drosophila Vesanto virus were found to be relatively common, while the other viruses were rare. This suggests that DNA viruses are less prevalent in Drosophila compared to RNA viruses and may not persist as well in laboratory cultures.
Article
Biology
Rory Gibb, Gregory F. Albery, Daniel J. Becker, Liam Brierley, Ryan Connor, Tad A. Dallas, Evan A. Eskew, Maxwell J. Farrell, Angela L. Rasmussen, Sadie J. Ryan, Amy Sweeny, Colin J. Carlson, Timothee Poisot
Summary: The fields of viral ecology and evolution are rapidly expanding, with a central challenge being the synthesis of host-virus data. Establishing an open database of host-virus associations can provide a richer view of the known virome, but there is also a risk of databases becoming outdated as viral discovery accelerates. Shifting towards the development and use of synthetic data sets in viral ecology is argued for, to improve replicability and facilitate predictions about the global virome structure and dynamics.
Article
Parasitology
Priscila Ikeda, Jaire Marinho Torres, Elizabete Captivo Lourenco, Gregory F. Albery, Heitor Miraglia Herrera, Carina Elisei de Oliveira, Rosangela Zacarias Machado, Marcos Rogerio Andre
Summary: The occurrence and genetic diversity of hemoplasmas in bats and ectoparasites in central-western Brazil were investigated. High genetic diversity was found among the 16S rRNA hemoplasma sequences detected in non-hematophagous bats, with 12 distinct genotypes identified.
Article
Ecology
Gregory F. Albery, Amy R. Sweeny, Daniel J. Becker, Shweta Bansal
Summary: Spatial dependence of wildlife disease was identified through analysis of 31 datasets, but determinants of this heterogeneity across systems remain unclear. Parasites of all transmission modes displayed detectable spatial patterns, suggesting structured contact networks and susceptibility effects may be as important as environmental drivers in spatially structuring disease.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Anna C. Fagre, Lily E. Cohen, Evan A. Eskew, Max Farrell, Emma Glennon, Maxwell B. Joseph, Hannah K. Frank, Sadie J. Ryan, Colin J. Carlson, Gregory F. Albery
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about the transmission of pathogens from humans to animals. However, the number of verified transmission events is limited and the threat to animal and human health is not substantial. The existing literature has limitations, including sampling bias and underreporting of human parasites in wildlife, which hinder our ability to assess the risk of human-to-wildlife pathogen transmission.
Review
Ecology
Amy R. Sweeny, Gregory F. Albery
Summary: Exposure and susceptibility are fundamental to the infection status of every organism, and their interaction complicates the study of disease ecology and ecoimmunology. Currently, there is no established conceptual framework to distinguish between susceptibility and exposure processes, and specific tools are needed to address this problem. This study consolidates previous understanding and provides guidelines and methods to anticipate and control for covariance between exposure and susceptibility.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Gregory F. Albery, Colin J. Carlson, Lily E. Cohen, Evan A. Eskew, Rory Gibb, Sadie J. Ryan, Amy R. Sweeny, Daniel J. Becker
Summary: In summary, mammals in urban areas have more parasites overall without disproportionately more zoonotic ones. Although urban animals could have more frequent contact with humans, potentially transmitting more zoonotic parasites, this relationship is complicated by sampling bias and phenotypic confounders.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Biology
Ross Crates, David M. Watson, Gregory F. Albery, Timothee Bonnet, Liam Murphy, Laura Rayner, Dejan Stojanovic, Chris Timewell, Beau Meney, Mick Roderick, Dean Ingwersen, Robert Heinsohn
Summary: Mistletoes, as hemiparasitic plants, play a crucial role in moderating drought impacts on community structure. Their survival depends on host vascular flows and they are susceptible to mortality during drought. A study conducted in southeastern Australia found that mistletoe abundance is influenced by tree species composition, land use, and the presence of mistletoe birds. Mistletoe mortality is associated with high temperatures, low rainfall, and the interaction between temperature and rainfall. Interestingly, mistletoes can moderate drought impacts on woodland birds, particularly during the peak drought breeding seasons.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Biology
Quinn M. R. Webber, Gregory F. F. Albery, Damien R. R. Farine, Noa Pinter-Wollman, Nitika Sharma, Orr Spiegel, Eric Vander Wal, Kezia Manlove
Summary: Spatial and social behaviour are closely linked in an animal's biology, with implications for ecological and evolutionary processes. The 'spatial-social interface' is defined as the intersection of social and spatial aspects of individuals. Shared theory, vocabulary, and methods are used to connect spatial and social processes. The review integrates social and spatial behavioural ecology and identifies testable hypotheses at the spatial-social interface.
BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Biology
Melissa Collier, Gregory F. Albery, Grant C. McDonald, Shweta Bansal
Summary: Pathogen traits play a crucial role in the persistence of pathogens in a population, and their evolution is influenced by the interaction with host behavior. In this study, we analyzed contact networks of various animal groups and found that the network structure varies according to contact type, especially in fluid-exchange transmission networks. Simulation analysis revealed that pathogens transmitted through fluid-exchange contact types require specific traits for successful proliferation. These findings were supported by a review of known traits of pathogens that transmit in humans. Our study highlights the importance of contact network structure in driving the evolution of pathogen traits and provides essential context for understanding pathogen evolution and ecology.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Ecology
Sebastian Stockmaier, Yuko Ulrich, Gregory F. F. Albery, Sylvia Cremer, Patricia C. C. Lopes
Summary: Animals have developed various behavioral defenses to combat socially transmitted parasites, which can have significant impacts on the social group as a whole. These defenses include avoidance, resistance, and tolerance behaviors, and their expression and evolution are influenced by factors such as social complexity, group composition, and interdependent social relationships.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Daniel P. Schofield, Gregory F. Albery, Josh A. Firth, Alexander Mielke, Misato Hayashi, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Dora Biro, Susana Carvalho
Summary: Longitudinal video archives of behaviour are crucial for examining how sociality shifts over the lifespan in wild animals. New approaches adopting computer vision technology hold serious potential to capture interactions and associations between individuals in video at large scale; however, such approaches need a priori validation, as methods of sampling and defining edges for social networks can substantially impact results.
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Gregory F. Albery, Shweta Bansal, Matthew J. Silk
Summary: Comparing social network structures between species is important for understanding ecological and evolutionary processes. This article provides an overview of multispecies comparative social network studies in ecology and evolution, identifies key challenges, and offers methodological and empirical suggestions for future research. The aim is to encourage more publication and analysis of open social network datasets in animal ecology.
