Predation risk shapes social networks in fission-fusion populations.
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SUBMITTER: Kelley JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3166168 | biostudies-other | 2011
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Predation risk shapes social networks in fission-fusion populations.
Kelley Jennifer L JL Morrell Lesley J LJ Inskip Chloe C Krause Jens J Croft Darren P DP
PloS one 20110830 8
Predation risk is often associated with group formation in prey, but recent advances in methods for analysing the social structure of animal societies make it possible to quantify the effects of risk on the complex dynamics of spatial and temporal organisation. In this paper we use social network analysis to investigate the impact of variation in predation risk on the social structure of guppy shoals and the frequency and duration of shoal splitting (fission) and merging (fusion) events. Our ana ...[more]
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