Reversing biodiversity declines requires a better understanding of organismal mobility, as
movement processes dictate the scale at which species interact with the environment …

For social species, the environment has two components: physical and social. The social
environment modifies the individual's interaction with the physical environment, and the …

Group size is an important trait of social animals, affecting how individuals allocate time and
use space, and influencing both an individual's fitness and the collective, cooperative …

A social group's time budget is an emergent property of individual-level decisions about how
to allocate time. One fundamental determinant of these time allocation decisions is foraging …

Search requires balancing exploring for more options and exploiting the ones previously
found. Individuals foraging in a group face another trade-off: whether to engage in social …

Ecological and social factors influence individual movement and group membership
decisions, which ultimately determine how animal groups adjust their behavior in spatially …

Selection of a suitable habitat by animals before settlement is critical for their survival and
reproduction. In silk spinning arthropods like spider mites, denser webs offer protection from …

Many other species besides Homo sapiens are tool-users and even tool-makers, but one
aspect of material culture still sets modern humans apart: our emotional and social …

In social mammals, within-group competition for food can drive variation in female fitness.
Frugivores may face particularly strong competition because they use patchily distributed …

Social “connectivity” through time is currently considered as one of the major drivers of
cultural transmission and cultural evolution. Within this framework, the interactions within …