Analyzing Animal Societies: Quantitative Methods for Vertebrate Social Analysis

✍ Scribed by Hal Whitehead

• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 351
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you are in the field of ethology or behavioral ecology, or anything else studying animal behavior, this book gives you everything you need to know about social analyses. Hal Whitehead lays out detailed but understandable instruction on everything from data collection to software programs. I love it.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Conventions and Abbreviations......Page 14
1.1: Introduction......Page 16
1.2: What Is Social Structure?......Page 18
1.4: Conceptualizing Animal Societies:A Brief History......Page 19
1.5: Ethology and Behavioral Ecology......Page 25
1.6: Hinde’s Ethological Conceptual Framework of Social Structure......Page 26
1.7: Other Definitions and Concepts of Social Structure......Page 30
1.8: Elements and Measures of Social Structure......Page 31
1.9: The Functional Why Questions, and Ecology......Page 35
1.10: Examples of Social Analyses......Page 36
1.11: Problems with Analyzing Social Structure......Page 38
2.1: Modes of Scientific Enquiry......Page 40
2.2: Basic Descriptive Statistics......Page 43
2.3: Precision of Statistics: Bootstraps and Jackknives......Page 45
2.4: Hypothesis Testing......Page 48
2.5: Data Matrices......Page 50
2.6: Ordination......Page 53
2.7: Classification......Page 56
2.8: Model Fitting and Selection: the Method of Likelihood and the Akaike Information Criterion......Page 59
2.9: Computer Programs......Page 61
3.1: Types of Behavior......Page 68
3.2: Interactions......Page 70
3.3: Associations......Page 71
3.4: Groups......Page 73
3.5: Identifying Individuals......Page 76
3.6: Class Data......Page 78
3.7: Collecting Social Data......Page 79
3.8: Data Formats......Page 86
3.9: Sampling Periods......Page 94
3.10: Attributes of Data Sets......Page 95
3.11: How Large a Data Set Is Needed for Social Analysis?......Page 96
box 3.1: Precision and Power of Social Analysis......Page 99
4.1: Relationships......Page 102
4.2: Nonsocial Measures of Relationship......Page 103
4.3: Social Attributes of Individuals, Including Gregariousness......Page 105
4.4: Rates of Interaction......Page 110
4.5: Association Indices......Page 112
box 4.1: Choosing an Association Index:Recommendations......Page 114
4.6: Temporal Patterning of Interactions/Associations......Page 119
4.7: Relative Relationships: Multivariate Description of Relationships......Page 124
4.8: Types of Relationships......Page 125
4.9: “Special” Relationships: Permutation Tests for Preferred/Avoided Companionships......Page 137
4.10: Quantifying the Strength of a Relationship and the Bond......Page 145
4.11: Relationships between Classes......Page 150
box 4.2: Describing Relationships:Recommendations......Page 157
5: Describing and Modeling Social Structure......Page 158
box 5.1: Omitting Individuals from Analyses of Social Structure......Page 159
5.1: Attributes of Social Structure......Page 161
5.2: Single-Measure Displays of Social Structure......Page 163
box 5.2: Visual Displays of Social Structure:General Guidelines......Page 182
5.3: Network Analysis......Page 183
box 5.3: Network Analyses: Recommendations......Page 199
5.4: Dominance Hierarchies......Page 201
box 5.4: Analyzing Dominance Hierarchies: Recommendations......Page 209
5.5: Adding Time: Lagged Association Rates......Page 210
box 5.5: Lagged Association Rates:Recommendations and Extensions......Page 226
5.6: Multivariate Methods......Page 229
5.7: Delineating Groups, Units, Communities,and Tiers......Page 237
box 5.6: Recommendations for Population Division......Page 251
box 5.7: Describing Social Structure: Recommendations......Page 253
6.1: Comparing Social Structures......Page 256
6.2: Classifying Social Structures......Page 257
6.3: How Complex Is My Society?......Page 259
7: What Determines Social Structure, and What Does Social Structure Determine?......Page 266
7.1: The Individual in Society: Roles......Page 267
7.2: The Dyad in Society: Conflict......Page 271
7.3: The Dyad in Society: Cooperation......Page 273
box 7.1: Quantitative Methods in the Behavioral Ecology of Social Systems......Page 280
7.4: Environmental Determinants of Social Systems......Page 284
7.5: Mating Systems and Social Systems......Page 289
7.6: Culture in Society......Page 292
8.1: Conceptual Frameworks......Page 304
8.3: Collecting Better Data......Page 305
8.4: Improving Analysis......Page 307
9.1: Glossary......Page 310
9.2: A Key Journal and Some Useful Books......Page 315
9.3: Computer Programs......Page 316
9.5: Assessing Unit Size, Group Size, or Community Size......Page 321
References......Page 324
Index......Page 340