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

摘要: Scale remains a foundational concept in ecology. Spatial scale, for instance, has become central consideration the way we understand landscape ecology and animal space use. Meanwhile, scale-dependent social processes can range from fine-scale interactions to co-occurrence overlapping home ranges. Furthermore, sociality vary within across seasons. Multilayer networks promise explicit integration of social, spatial, temporal contexts. Given complex interplay use heterogeneous landscapes, there an important gap our understanding influence scale on networks. Using empirical case study, discuss ways considering context multilayer caribou Effective spatial processes, including biologically meaningful scales, is emerging area research. We incorporate perspectives that link environment scales context.