Within animal populations there is variation among individuals in their tendency to be social,
where more sociable individuals associate more with other individuals. Consistent inter …

There is a long tradition of using mathematical models to generate insights into the
transmission dynamics of infectious diseases and assess the potential impact of different …

Many important questions in ecology and evolutionary biology can only be answered with
data that extend over several decades and answering a substantial proportion of questions …

The use of social and contact networks to answer basic and applied questions about
infectious disease transmission in wildlife and livestock is receiving increased attention …

Behavioural ecologists are increasingly using social network analysis to describe the social
organisation of animal populations and to test hypotheses. However, the statistical analysis …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Animals use social information in a wide variety of contexts. Its extensive use by individuals
to locate food patches has been documented in a number of species, and various …

Understanding the functional links between social structure and population processes is a
central aim of evolutionary ecology. Multiple types of interactions can be represented by …

We review our ecological understanding of wildlife infectious diseases from the individual
host to the ecosystem scale, highlighting where conceptual thinking lacks verification …

1. Heterogeneity in the ability of hosts to transmit pathogens is among the most fundamental
concepts in disease dynamics and has major implications for disease control strategies. 2 …