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Modelling animal group fission using social network dynamics.
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- Co-roosting relationships are consistent across years in a bat maternity group.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Data-driven modelling of group formation in the fission-fusion dynamics of Bechstein's bats.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Better baboon break-ups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Kin relationships in cultural species of the marine realm: case study of a matrilineal social group of sperm whales off Mauritius island, Indian Ocean.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Influence of number of individuals and observations per individual on a model of community structure.PloS one · 2021Article
- Divergence in gut microbial communities mirrors a social group fission event in a black-and-white colobus monkey (Colobus vellerosus).American journal of primatology · 2019Article
- Social network dynamics precede a mass eviction in group-living rhesus macaques.Animal behaviour · 2018Article
- Social implications of fission in wild Formosan macaques at Mount Longevity, Taiwan.Primates; journal of primatology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Group life involves both advantages and disadvantages, meaning that individuals have to compromise between their nutritional needs and their social links. When a compromise is impossible, the group splits in order to reduce conflict of interests and favour positive social interactions between its members. In this study we built a dynamic model of social networks to represent a succession of temporary fissions involving a change in social relations that could potentially lead to irreversible group fission (i.e. no more group fusion). This is the first study that assesses how a social network changes according to group fission-fusion dynamics. We built a model that was based on different parameters: the group size, the influence of nutritional needs compared to social needs, and the changes in the social network after a temporary fission. The results obtained from this theoretical data indicate how the percentage of social relation transfer, the number of individuals and the relative importance of nutritional requirements and social links influence the average number of days before irreversible fission occurs. The greater the nutritional needs and the higher the transfer of social relations during temporary fission, the fewer days will be observed before an irreversible fission. It is crucial to bridge the gap between the individual and the population level if we hope to understand how simple, local interactions may drive ecological systems.
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