Social network analysis is used widely in the social sciences to
study interactions among people, groups, and organizations, yet
until now there has been no book that shows behavioral biologists
how to apply it to their work on animal populations. Exploring
Animal Social Networks provides a practical guide for researchers,
undergraduates, and graduate students in ecology, evolutionary
biology, animal behavior, and zoology.
Exploring Animal Social Networks shows behavioral biologists how to apply social network theory to animal populations. In doing so, Croft, James, and Krause illustrate the connections between an animal's individual behaviors and how these, in turn, influence and are influenced by behavior at the population level... Valuable for readers interested in using quantitative analyses to study animal social behaviors. Choice [T]his volume provides an engaging, accessible, and timely introduction to the use of network theory methods for examining the social behavior of animals. -- Noa Pinter-Wollman Quarterly Review of Biology I love this book... [T]he authors have produced a volume that is well written and informative, but mostly I love it because Exploring Animal Social Networks is really useful... I suspect that this book will change the life history of network analysis application in animal behaviour, shortening the juvenile period and ushering us more quickly into adulthood. -- Richard Connor Animal Behavior The behavioural scientist interested in the wider picture of how their work fits into the world of networks is recommended this book as a first port of call for classic citations. -- Sean A. Rands Applied Animal Behaviour Science The book is a useful 'handbook' providing detailed, stepwise procedures sufficient to allow the reader to address a broad range of questions about social interactions... The book includes numerous examples of the kind of research questions one might ask, and, thus, it allows the reader to find the analysis that best fits the data set to be analyzed. Thus, even readers with minimal prior knowledge of social network analysis will be able to apply this approach. And if further assistance is needed, the authors provide numerous references to specific procedures that have been used by others. -- Thomas R. Zentall PsycCRITIQUES
Darren P. Croft is lecturer in animal behavior at the University of Wales, Bangor. Richard James is senior lecturer in physics at the University of Bath. Jens Krause is professor of behavioral ecology at the University of Leeds.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface vii Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Networks 1 Chapter 2: Data Collection 19 Chapter 3: Visual Exploration 42 Chapter 4: Node-Based Measures 64 Chapter 5: Statistical Tests of Node-Based Measures 88 Chapter 6: Searching for Substructures 117 Chapter 7: Comparing Networks 141 Chapter 8: Conclusions 163 Glossary of Frequently Used Terms 173 References 175 Index 187
