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Social tipping points in animal societies
Animal social groups are complex systems that are likely to exhibit tipping points—which are defined as drastic shifts in the dynamics of systems that arise from small changes in environmental conditions—yet this concept has not been carefully applied to these systems. Here, we summarize the concept...
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The Royal Society
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6170811/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30232162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1282 |
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author | Pruitt, Jonathan N. Berdahl, Andrew Riehl, Christina Pinter-Wollman, Noa Moeller, Holly V. Pringle, Elizabeth G. Aplin, Lucy M. Robinson, Elva J. H. Grilli, Jacopo Yeh, Pamela Savage, Van M. Price, Michael H. Garland, Joshua Gilby, Ian C. Crofoot, Margaret C. Doering, Grant N. Hobson, Elizabeth A. |
author_facet | Pruitt, Jonathan N. Berdahl, Andrew Riehl, Christina Pinter-Wollman, Noa Moeller, Holly V. Pringle, Elizabeth G. Aplin, Lucy M. Robinson, Elva J. H. Grilli, Jacopo Yeh, Pamela Savage, Van M. Price, Michael H. Garland, Joshua Gilby, Ian C. Crofoot, Margaret C. Doering, Grant N. Hobson, Elizabeth A. |
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description | Animal social groups are complex systems that are likely to exhibit tipping points—which are defined as drastic shifts in the dynamics of systems that arise from small changes in environmental conditions—yet this concept has not been carefully applied to these systems. Here, we summarize the concepts behind tipping points and describe instances in which they are likely to occur in animal societies. We also offer ways in which the study of social tipping points can open up new lines of inquiry in behavioural ecology and generate novel questions, methods, and approaches in animal behaviour and other fields, including community and ecosystem ecology. While some behaviours of living systems are hard to predict, we argue that probing tipping points across animal societies and across tiers of biological organization—populations, communities, ecosystems—may help to reveal principles that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. |
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spelling | pubmed-61708112018-10-21 Social tipping points in animal societies Pruitt, Jonathan N. Berdahl, Andrew Riehl, Christina Pinter-Wollman, Noa Moeller, Holly V. Pringle, Elizabeth G. Aplin, Lucy M. Robinson, Elva J. H. Grilli, Jacopo Yeh, Pamela Savage, Van M. Price, Michael H. Garland, Joshua Gilby, Ian C. Crofoot, Margaret C. Doering, Grant N. Hobson, Elizabeth A. Proc Biol Sci Review Articles Animal social groups are complex systems that are likely to exhibit tipping points—which are defined as drastic shifts in the dynamics of systems that arise from small changes in environmental conditions—yet this concept has not been carefully applied to these systems. Here, we summarize the concepts behind tipping points and describe instances in which they are likely to occur in animal societies. We also offer ways in which the study of social tipping points can open up new lines of inquiry in behavioural ecology and generate novel questions, methods, and approaches in animal behaviour and other fields, including community and ecosystem ecology. While some behaviours of living systems are hard to predict, we argue that probing tipping points across animal societies and across tiers of biological organization—populations, communities, ecosystems—may help to reveal principles that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. The Royal Society 2018-09-26 2018-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6170811/ /pubmed/30232162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1282 Text en © 2018 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Review Articles Pruitt, Jonathan N. Berdahl, Andrew Riehl, Christina Pinter-Wollman, Noa Moeller, Holly V. Pringle, Elizabeth G. Aplin, Lucy M. Robinson, Elva J. H. Grilli, Jacopo Yeh, Pamela Savage, Van M. Price, Michael H. Garland, Joshua Gilby, Ian C. Crofoot, Margaret C. Doering, Grant N. Hobson, Elizabeth A. Social tipping points in animal societies |
title | Social tipping points in animal societies |
title_full | Social tipping points in animal societies |
title_fullStr | Social tipping points in animal societies |
title_full_unstemmed | Social tipping points in animal societies |
title_short | Social tipping points in animal societies |
title_sort | social tipping points in animal societies |
topic | Review Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6170811/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30232162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1282 |
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