Challenges of mismatching timescales in longitudinal studies of collective behaviour.

ABSTRACT: How individuals' prior experience and population evolutionary history shape emergent patterns in animal collectives remains a major gap in the study of collective behaviour. One reason for this is that the processes that can shape individual contributions to collective actions can happen over very different timescales from each other and from the collective actions themselves, resulting in mismatched timescales. For example, a preference to move towards a specific patch might arise from phenotype, memory or physiological state. Although providing critical context to collective actions, bridging different timescales remains conceptually and methodologically challenging. Here, we briefly outline some of these challenges, and discuss existing approaches that have already generated insights in

SUBMITTER: Ogino M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9939264 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature