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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024

Societies with fission-fusion dynamics as complex adaptive systems: the importance of scale.

Anastasia Madsen, Shermin de Silva

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Connected interactions: enriching food web research by spatial and social interactions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
    Article
  2. The socioecological correlates of collective movements in giraffes.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anastasia MadsenDepartment of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, University of California , San Diego, CA 92093-0021, USA.
Shermin de SilvaDepartment of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, University of California , San Diego, CA 92093-0021, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5804-213X

Funding

National Science Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, we argue that social systems with fission-fusion (FF) dynamics are best characterized within a complex adaptive systems (CAS) framework. We discuss how different endogenous and exogenous factors drive scale-dependent network properties across temporal, spatial and social domains. Importantly, this view treats the dynamics themselves as objects of study, rather than variously defined notions of static 'social groups' that have hitherto dominated thinking in behavioural ecology. CAS approaches allow us to interrogate FF dynamics in taxa that do not conform to more traditional conceptualizations of sociality and encourage us to pose new types of questions regarding the sources of stability and change in social systems, distinguishing regular variations from those that would lead to system-level reorganization. This article is part of the theme issue 'Connected interactions: enriching food web research by spatial and social interactions'.

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Social BehaviorAnimalscomplex adaptive systemscomplex systemsdynamic systemsfission–fusion dynamicsscale

Identifiers

PMID39034708
PMCPMC11293855

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