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:notebook: The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks
https://github.com/robitalec/scaleinmultilayernetworks

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:notebook: The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/robitalec/scaleinmultilayernetworks
• Owner: robitalec
• Created: 2020-08-28T16:27:22.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-05-28T20:46:13.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-12T03:35:10.475Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: ecology, multilayer-networks, r, social-network-analysis
• Language: R
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• Size: 137 MB
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• Watchers: 2
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  • Readme: README.Rmd

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# The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks

* Authors:

    + [Alec L. Robitaille](http://robitalec.ca)

    + [Quinn M.R. Webber](https://qwebber.weebly.com/)

    + [Julie W. Turner](https://www.julwturner.com/)

    + [Eric Vander Wal](http://weel.gitlab.io)

This repository contains the code accompanying the paper [“The problem and

promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks”](https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa052). Scripts are under

`scripts/` and reused functions are in `R/`. This project uses standard R

package structure and can therefore be installed with `devtools`. This also

helps declare external package dependencies required for the analysis. Please

note that while functions are included here, they are not tested for use in

other projects and may not be suitable (at least not in their current version).

The project uses `drake` for workflow management and `renv` for explicitly

declaring package dependencies and their versions.

## Abstract

Scale remains a foundational concept in ecology. Spatial scale, for instance,

has become a central consideration in the way we understand landscape ecology

and animal space use. Meanwhile, scale-dependent social processes can range from

fine-scale interactions to co-occurrence and overlapping home ranges.

Furthermore, sociality can vary within and across seasons. Multilayer networks

promise the explicit integration of the social, spatial and, temporal contexts.

Given the complex interplay of sociality and animal space use in heterogeneous

landscapes, there remains an important gap in our understanding of the influence

of scale on animal social networks. Using an empirical case study, we discuss

ways of considering social, spatial and, temporal scale in the context of

multilayer caribou social networks. Effective integration of social and spatial

processes, including biologically meaningful scales, within the context of

animal social networks is an emerging area of research. We incorporate

perspectives that link the social environment to spatial processes across scales

in a multilayer context.