Animal social networks Jens Krause Richard James

This investigative workshop will explore problems and opportunities raised by small (tens to hundreds of individuals) social networks as they develop over time. Focus areas include how temporal dynamics affect network function and emergent properties; the response of the network to perturbations (e.g., births, deaths, immigration and emigration); and the tension between network structure (e.g., importance of roles and network centrality) and process (e.g., flow of information, disease transmission). The workshop will bring together empiricists interested in a diversity of animal social groups (ants, fish, birds, mammals) and quantitative scientists (network scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists) interested in the special problems posed by the dynamics of small social networks.