Observing the unwatchable: Integrating automated sensing, naturalistic observations and animal social network analysis in the age of big data

JE Smith, N Pinter‐Wollman - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the 4.5 decades since Altmann (1974) published her seminal paper on the methods for
the observational study of behaviour, automated detection and analysis of social interaction …

[HTML][HTML] TRex, a fast multi-animal tracking system with markerless identification, and 2D estimation of posture and visual fields

T Walter, ID Couzin - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Automated visual tracking of animals is rapidly becoming an indispensable tool for the study
of behavior. It offers a quantitative methodology by which organisms' sensing and decision …

Lethal and sublethal synergistic effects of a new systemic pesticide, flupyradifurone (Sivanto®), on honeybees

S Tosi, JC Nieh - Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) is an important pollinator and a model for pesticide effects
on insect pollinators. The effects of agricultural pesticides on honeybee health have …

Pesticide risk assessment in honeybees: Toward the use of behavioral and reproductive performances as assessment endpoints

L Barascou, JL Brunet, L Belzunces, A Decourtye… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing gap between new evidence of pesticide toxicity in honeybees and conventional
toxicological assays recommended by regulatory test guidelines emphasizes the need to …

[HTML][HTML] Constructing temporal networks with bursty activity patterns

A Sheng, Q Su, A Li, L Wang, JB Plotkin - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Human social interactions tend to vary in intensity over time, whether they are in person or
online. Variable rates of interaction in structured populations can be described by networks …

[HTML][HTML] Markerless tracking of an entire honey bee colony

K Bozek, L Hebert, Y Portugal, AS Mikheyev… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
From cells in tissue, to bird flocks, to human crowds, living systems display a stunning variety
of collective behaviors. Yet quantifying such phenomena first requires tracking a significant …

Strategy evolution on dynamic networks

Q Su, A McAvoy, JB Plotkin - Nature Computational Science, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Models of strategy evolution on static networks help us understand how population
structure can promote the spread of traits like cooperation. One key mechanism is the …

Honey bee virus causes context-dependent changes in host social behavior

AC Geffre, T Gernat, GP Harwood… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Anthropogenic changes create evolutionarily novel environments that present opportunities
for emerging diseases, potentially changing the balance between host and pathogen …

[HTML][HTML] Social networks predict the life and death of honey bees

B Wild, DM Dormagen, A Zachariae, ML Smith… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In complex societies, individuals' roles are reflected by interactions with other conspecifics.
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) generally change tasks as they age, but developmental …

[HTML][HTML] Behavioral variation across the days and lives of honey bees

ML Smith, JD Davidson, B Wild, DM Dormagen… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
In honey bee colonies, workers generally change tasks with age (from brood care, to nest
work, to foraging). While these trends are well established, our understanding of how …