Scale remains a foundational concept in ecology.Spatial scale,for instance,has become a central consideration in the way we understand landscape ecology and animal space use.Meanwhile,scale-dependent social processes ...Scale remains a foundational concept in ecology.Spatial scale,for instance,has become a central consideration in the way we understand landscape ecology and animal space use.Meanwhile,scale-dependent social processes can range from fine scale interactions to co-occurrence and overlapping home ranges.Furthermore,sociality can vary within and across seasons.Multilayer networks promise the explicit integration of the social,spatial,and temporal contexts.Given the complex interplay of sociality and animal space use in heterogeneous landscapes,there remains an important gap in our understanding of the influence of scale on animal social networks.Using an empirical case study,we discuss ways of considering social,spatial,and temporal scale in the context of multilayer caribou social networks.Effective integration of social and spatial processes,including biologically meaningful scales,within the context of animal social networks is an emerging area of research.We incorporate perspectives that link the social environment to spatial processes across scales in a multilayer context.展开更多
Current Zoology,2021,67(1):113-123,https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa052 In the originally published version of this manuscript,the order of the following co-author's name should read:"Eric Vander Wal"inste...Current Zoology,2021,67(1):113-123,https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa052 In the originally published version of this manuscript,the order of the following co-author's name should read:"Eric Vander Wal"instead of"Vander Wal Eric".This error has now been corrected online.展开更多
基金Funding for this study was provided by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship to Q.M.R.W.(acronym of author Quinn M.R.Webber)a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant to E.V.W.
文摘Scale remains a foundational concept in ecology.Spatial scale,for instance,has become a central consideration in the way we understand landscape ecology and animal space use.Meanwhile,scale-dependent social processes can range from fine scale interactions to co-occurrence and overlapping home ranges.Furthermore,sociality can vary within and across seasons.Multilayer networks promise the explicit integration of the social,spatial,and temporal contexts.Given the complex interplay of sociality and animal space use in heterogeneous landscapes,there remains an important gap in our understanding of the influence of scale on animal social networks.Using an empirical case study,we discuss ways of considering social,spatial,and temporal scale in the context of multilayer caribou social networks.Effective integration of social and spatial processes,including biologically meaningful scales,within the context of animal social networks is an emerging area of research.We incorporate perspectives that link the social environment to spatial processes across scales in a multilayer context.
文摘Current Zoology,2021,67(1):113-123,https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa052 In the originally published version of this manuscript,the order of the following co-author's name should read:"Eric Vander Wal"instead of"Vander Wal Eric".This error has now been corrected online.