Pubblicazione scientifica

Social tipping points in animal societies

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
produzione e raccolta

RIASSUNTO

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.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 19/09/2018

AUTORI

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

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology University of California – Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 USA
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California – Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90095 USA
Department of Biology University of Nevada – Reno Reno NV 89557 USA
DEPT PSYCHOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOUR MCMASTER UNIV HAMILTON ONTARIO L8S 4K1 CANADA
SCHOOL OF AQUATIC & FISHERIES SCIENCES UNIV WASHINGTON SEATTLE WA 98195 USA
SANTA FE INST SANTA FE NM 87501 USA
DEPT ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY PRINCETON UNIV PRINCETON NJ 08544 USA
EDWARD GREY INST FIELD ORNITHOLOGY DEPT ZOOLOGY UNIV OXFORD OXFORD OX1 3PS UK
COGNITIVE & CULTURAL ECOLOGY RSCH GROUP MAX PLANCK INST ORNITHOLOGY RADOLFZELL 78315 GERMANY
DEPT BIOLOGY UNIV YORK HESLINGTON YORK YO10 5DD UK
SCHOOL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION & SOCIAL CHANGE & INST HUMAN ORIGINS ARIZONA STATE UNIV TEMPE AZ 85287 USA
DEPT ANTHROPOLOGY UNIV CALIFORNIA DAVIS DAVIS CA 95616 USA

RIVISTA

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1887), 20181282

IMPACT FACTOR

4,240

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