The power of any kind of network approach lies in the ability to simplify a complex system so
that one can better understand its function as a whole. Sometimes it is beneficial, however …

Background Every year, billions of migratory animals cross the planet in pursuit of increased
foraging opportunities, improved safety, and higher reproductive output. In so doing, these …

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 …

Although networks provide a powerful approach to study a large variety of ecological
systems, their formulation does not typically account for multiple interaction types …

Response of microbial interactions to environmental perturbations has been a central issue
in wastewater treatment system. However, the interactions among anammox microbial …

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 …

Graph theory provides a language for studying the structure of relations, and it is often used
to study interactions over time too. However, it poorly captures the intrinsically temporal and …

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 …

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 …

Network ecology is an emerging field that allows researchers to conceptualize and analyse
ecological networks and their dynamics. Here, we focus on the dynamics of ecological …