ArticleThe American naturalist2016
The Effect of Keystone Individuals on Collective Outcomes Can Be Mediated through Interactions or Behavioral Persistence.
Article in The American naturalist, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Using multilayer network analysis to explore the temporal dynamics of collective behavior.Current zoology · 2021Article
- Spatial proximity and prey vibratory cues influence collective hunting in social spiders.Israel journal of ecology & evolution · 2020Article
- Resting networks and personality predict attack speed in social spiders.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2019Article
- Honey bees increase their foraging performance and frequency of pollen trips through experience.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Social interactions shape individual and collective personality in social spiders.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- The impact of the built environment on health behaviours and disease transmission in social systems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- The primary case is not enough: Variation among individuals, groups and social networks modify bacterial transmission dynamics.The Journal of animal ecology · 2018Article
- Selection for Collective Aggressiveness Favors Social Susceptibility in Social Spiders.Current biology : CB · 2018Article
- Participation in cooperative prey capture and the benefits gained from it are associated with individual personality.Current zoology · 2017Article
- The multidimensional behavioural hypervolumes of two interacting species predict their space use and survival.Animal behaviour · 2017Article
- Task allocation and site fidelity jointly influence foraging regulation in honeybee colonies.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- The Effect of Keystone Individuals on Collective Outcomes Can Be Mediated through Interactions or Behavioral Persistence.The American naturalist · 2016Article
- Personality composition alters the transmission of cuticular bacteria in social groups.Biology letters · 2016Article
- Collective responses to heterospecifics emerge from individual differences in aggression.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
Corrections and comments
- Correction · 2020-12-22Error in Data · Error in Image ·
- Erratum issuedCorrection.2021
Authors and funding
4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Collective behavior emerges from interactions among group members who often vary in their behavior. The presence of just one or a few keystone individuals, such as leaders or tutors, may have a large effect on collective outcomes. These individuals can catalyze behavioral changes in other group members, thus altering group composition and collective behavior. The influence of keystone individuals on group function may lead to trade-offs between ecological situations, because the behavioral composition they facilitate may be suitable in one situation but not another. We use computer simulations to examine various mechanisms that allow keystone individuals to exert their influence on group members. We further discuss a trade-off between two potentially conflicting collective outcomes, cooperative prey attack and disease dynamics. Our simulations match empirical data from a social spider system and produce testable predictions for the causes and consequences of the influence of keystone individuals on group composition and collective outcomes. We find that a group's behavioral composition can be impacted by the keystone individual through changes to interaction patterns or behavioral persistence over time. Group behavioral composition and the mechanisms that drive the distribution of phenotypes influence collective outcomes and lead to trade-offs between disease dynamics and cooperative prey attack.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.