Environment modulates population social structure: experimental evidence from replicated social networks of wild lizards

ST Leu, DR Farine, TW Wey, A Sih, CM Bull - Animal behaviour, 2016 - Elsevier
Social structure is a fundamental component of a population that drives ecological and
evolutionary processes ranging from parasite transmission to sexual selection …

Multiyear social stability and social information use in reef sharks with diel fission–fusion dynamics

YP Papastamatiou, TW Bodey… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animals across vertebrate taxa form social communities and often exist as fission–fusion
groups. Central place foragers (CPF) may form groups from which they will predictably …

Reef manta ray social dynamics depend on individual differences in behaviour

RJY Perryman, J Mourier, SK Venables, RF Tapilatu… - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•We used acoustic telemetry to record fine scale social dynamics in reef manta
rays.•Social affiliations were assorted into spatial communities.•Social structuring persisted …

Long-lasting social bonds of a habitat-structured delphinid social system

S Chen, W Lin, B Liu, A Serres, M Lin, M Liu, S Li - Animal Behaviour, 2025 - Elsevier
Owing to the large, three-dimensional, fluid nature of their aquatic environment, the impact of
habitat configuration has rarely been investigated in cetacean societies. However, in some …

An unknown component of a well-known population: socio-demographic parameters of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) at the western reaches of …

SCY Chan, L Karczmarski, W Lin, R Zheng, YW Ho… - Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
Quantifying demographic parameters and patterns of social dynamics is fundamental to
understanding the population ecology of group-living animals and carries considerable …

Assortative interactions revealed in a fission–fusion society of Australian humpback dolphins

TN Hunt, SJ Allen, L Bejder, GJ Parra - Behavioral Ecology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Understanding individual interactions within a community or population provides valuable
insight into its social system, ecology, and, ultimately, resilience against external stimuli …

Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) social structure in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland, is distinguished by age‐ and area‐related associations

I Baker, J O'Brien, K McHugh, SN Ingram… - Marine Mammal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Social and network analyses that incorporate information on individuals within a population
enhance our knowledge of complex species. In this study, the social structure of wild …

Measuring the complexity of social associations using mixture models

MN Weiss, DW Franks, DP Croft… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2019 - Springer
We propose a method for examining and measuring the complexity of animal social
networks that are characterized using association indices. The method focusses on the …

Identifying the relevant local population for Environmental Impact Assessments of mobile marine fauna

DBH Chabanne, H Finn, L Bejder - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Environmental impact assessments must be addressed at a scale that reflects the biological
organization for the species affected. It can be challenging to identify the relevant local …

Resources and population traits modulate the association patterns in the common bottlenose dolphin living nearby the Tiber river estuary (Mediterranean Sea)

DS Pace, S Ferri, G Giacomini, C Di Marco… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Sociality and ecological drivers that can influence individual association patterns are
infrequently considered in wildlife management, although they are essential aspects …