Predation risk shapes social networks in fission-fusion populations

JL Kelley, LJ Morrell, C Inskip, J Krause, DP Croft - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
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 …

The role of relatedness in structuring the social network of a wild guppy population

DP Croft, PB Hamilton, SK Darden, DMP Jacoby… - Oecologia, 2012 - Springer
The role of relatedness in structuring animal societies has attracted considerable interest.
Whilst a significant number of studies have documented kin recognition in shoaling fish …

Familiarity affects social network structure and discovery of prey patch locations in foraging stickleback shoals

N Atton, BJ Galef, W Hoppitt… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Numerous factors affect the fine-scale social structure of animal groups, but it is unclear how
important such factors are in determining how individuals encounter resources. Familiarity …

Fear of predation drives stable and differentiated social relationships in guppies

RJP Heathcote, SK Darden, DW Franks… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Social relationships can have important consequences for fitness in animals. Whilst
numerous studies have shown that individuals often join larger groups in response to …

Fear of predation shapes social network structure and the acquisition of foraging information in guppy shoals

MJ Hasenjager, LA Dugatkin - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Spatio-temporal variation in predation risk is predicted to select for plastic anti-predator
responses, which may in turn impact the fine-scale social structure of prey groups and …

Dynamic social networks in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

ADM Wilson, S Krause, R James, DP Croft… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2014 - Springer
One of the main challenges in the study of social networks in vertebrates is to close the gap
between group patterns and dynamics. Usually scan samples or transect data are recorded …

How predation shapes the social interaction rules of shoaling fish

JE Herbert-Read, E Rosén… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Predation is thought to shape the macroscopic properties of animal groups, making moving
groups more cohesive and coordinated. Precisely how predation has shaped individuals' …

Dynamics of fish shoals: identifying key decision rules

JH Tien, SA Levin… - Evolutionary Ecology …, 2004 - evolutionary-ecology.com
Social aggregations of fish are extremely common in nature. Pitcher (1983) defines a social
aggregation of fish as a shoal, with a highly polarized shoal constituting a school. The …

Guppies occupy consistent positions in social networks: mechanisms and consequences

S Krause, ADM Wilson, IW Ramnarine… - Behavioral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The social network approach has focused increasing attention on the complex web of
relationships found in animal groups and populations. As such, network analysis has been …

High-predation habitats affect the social dynamics of collective exploration in a shoaling fish

CC Ioannou, IW Ramnarine, CJ Torney - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
Collective decisions play a major role in the benefits that animals gain from living in groups.
Although the mechanisms of how groups collectively make decisions have been extensively …