Time is of the essence: an application of a relational event model for animal social networks.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how animal social relationships are created, maintained and severed has ecological and evolutionary significance. Animal social relationships are inferred from observations of interactions between animals; the pattern of interaction over time indicates the existence (or absence) of a social relationship. Autonomous behavioural recording technologies are increasingly being used to collect continuous interaction data on animal associations. However, continuous data sequences are typically aggregated to represent a relationship as part of one (or several) pictures of the network of relations among animals, in a way that parallels human social networks. This transformation entails loss of information about interaction timing and sequence, which are particularly important to under

SUBMITTER: Patison KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4405283 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature