Inferring social network structure in ecological systems from spatiotemporal data streams

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 76, 2012, Pages 3055-3066

  Psorakis, Ioannis ^a   Roberts, Stephen J ^a   Rezek, Iead ^a   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal social networks; Network analysis; Spatio temporal data streams

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

ADJACENCY MATRICES; AGENT ACTIVITIES; CO-OCCURRENCE; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CONNECTIVITY PATTERN; DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; GREAT TIT; INTERACTING AGENTS; LARGE-SCALE DATASETS; NOT GIVEN; NULL MODEL; PARUS MAJOR; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; VARIABLE TIME; WILD BIRDS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BIRD; BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM; FORAGING; INTEGRATION; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARUS MAJOR; REVIEW; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 84867476382     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0223     Document Type: Review

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