Mortality risk and social network position in resident killer whales: sex differences and the importance of resource abundance S Ellis, DW Franks, S Nattrass, MA Cant, MN Weiss, D Giles, KC Balcomb, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1865), 20171313, 2017 | 108 | 2017 |
Postreproductive killer whale grandmothers improve the survival of their grandoffspring S Nattrass, DP Croft, S Ellis, MA Cant, MN Weiss, BM Wright, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (52), 26669-26673, 2019 | 84 | 2019 |
Common datastream permutations of animal social network data are not appropriate for hypothesis testing using regression models MN Weiss, DW Franks, LJN Brent, S Ellis, MJ Silk, DP Croft Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12 (2), 255-265, 2021 | 61 | 2021 |
Importance of old bulls: leaders and followers in collective movements of all-male groups in African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) CRB Allen, LJN Brent, T Motsentwa, MN Weiss, DP Croft Scientific reports 10 (1), 13996, 2020 | 46 | 2020 |
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence JDA Hart, MN Weiss, LJN Brent, DW Franks Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76 (11), 151, 2022 | 38 | 2022 |
Age and sex influence social interactions, but not associations, within a killer whale pod MN Weiss, DW Franks, DA Giles, S Youngstrom, SK Wasser, KC Balcomb, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1953), 20210617, 2021 | 37 | 2021 |
Calculating effect sizes in animal social network analysis DW Franks, MN Weiss, MJ Silk, RJY Perryman, DP Croft Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12 (1), 33-41, 2021 | 36 | 2021 |
Measuring the complexity of social associations using mixture models MN Weiss, DW Franks, D Croft, H Whitehead Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 73 (8), 2018 | 35* | 2018 |
Kinship dynamics: patterns and consequences of changes in local relatedness DP Croft, MN Weiss, MLK Nielsen, C Grimes, MA Cant, S Ellis, DW Franks, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1957), 20211129, 2021 | 28 | 2021 |
Bison: A bayesian framework for inference of social networks JDA Hart, MN Weiss, DW Franks, LJN Brent bioRxiv, 2021.12. 20.473541, 2021 | 21 | 2021 |
Modelling cetacean morbillivirus outbreaks in an endangered killer whale population MN Weiss, DW Franks, KC Balcomb, DK Ellifrit, MJ Silk, MA Cant, ... Biological Conservation 242, 108398, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
A long postreproductive life span is a shared trait among genetically distinct killer whale populations MLK Nielsen, S Ellis, JR Towers, T Doniol‐Valcroze, DW Franks, MA Cant, ... Ecology and Evolution 11 (13), 9123-9136, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies S Ellis, RA Johnstone, MA Cant, DW Franks, MN Weiss, SC Alberts, ... Nature ecology & evolution 6 (11), 1766-1776, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
Mixture models as a method for comparative sociality: social networks and demographic change in resident killer whales S Ellis, DW Franks, MN Weiss, MA Cant, P Domenici, KC Balcomb, ... Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75, 1-15, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
Costly lifetime maternal investment in killer whales MN Weiss, S Ellis, DW Franks, MLK Nielsen, MA Cant, RA Johnstone, ... Current Biology 33 (4), 744-748. e3, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
Diversity and consequences of social network structure in toothed whales MN Weiss, S Ellis, DP Croft Frontiers in Marine Science 8, 688842, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
Early-life learning ability predicts adult social structure, with potential implications for fitness outcomes in the wild EJG Langley, JO van Horik, MA Whiteside, CE Beardsworth, MN Weiss, ... The Journal of Animal Ecology 89 (6), 1340-1349, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
Temporal dynamics of mother–offspring relationships in Bigg's killer whales: opportunities for kin-directed help by post-reproductive females MLK Nielsen, S Ellis, MN Weiss, JR Towers, T Doniol-Valcroze, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290 (2000), 20230139, 2023 | 8 | 2023 |
The effect of age, sex, and resource abundance on patterns of rake markings in resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) C Grimes, LJN Brent, MN Weiss, DW Franks, KC Balcomb, DK Ellifrit, ... Marine Mammal Science 38 (3), 941-958, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
Accuracy and power analysis of social networks built from count data JDA Hart, DW Franks, LJN Brent, MN Weiss Methods in ecology and evolution 13 (1), 157-166, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |