Social network analysis provides a broad and complex perspective on animal sociality that
is widely applicable to almost any species. Recent applications demonstrate the utility of …

The overexploitation of sharks has become a global environmental issue in need of a
comprehensive and multifaceted management response. Tracking studies are beginning to …

Animal social networks are descriptions of social structure which, aside from their intrinsic
interest for understanding sociality, can have significant bearing across many fields of …

Ants live in organized societies with a marked division of labor among workers, but little is
known about how this division of labor is generated. We used a tracking system to …

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 …

Animal societies are shaped both by social processes and by the physical environment in
which social interactions take place. While many studies take the observed patterns of inter …

Disease risk is a potential cost of group living. Although modular organization is thought to
reduce this cost in animal societies, empirical evidence toward this hypothesis has been …

Highlights•I describe a new method incorporating weighted edges to measure network
assortment.•This method is more robust than binary or threshold measures in simulated …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being increasingly used in studies of marine fauna.
Here, we tested the use of a UAV (DJI Phantom II®) to assess fine-scale variation in …

The extent of the global human footprint [1] limits our understanding of what is natural in the
marine environment. Remote, near-pristine areas provide some baseline expectations for …