Mechanisms of network evolution: a focus on socioecological factors, intermediary mechanisms, and selection pressures.

摘要: Since group-living animals are embedded in a network of social interactions, socioecological factors may not only affect individual behavioral strategies but also the patterning group-level i.e., structure. These co-variations between factors, behavior, and structure important to study since ecological strongly influence animal health outcomes reproductive success. Besides such as information and/or infectious agents, with far-reaching fitness consequences, seem independent individuals' own interactions directly affected by topology network. This paper reviews how socio-ecological pressures, causal (food distribution, predation, agent risk), via intermediary mechanisms (stress, sharing, mating system), behavior consequently, topology. We discuss evolutionary driving forces, genetic (i.e., genes) cultural learned behavior) selection, result specific composition that produce topologies might be optimized conditions. conclude studies focusing on whether well networks resist changing conditions provide better understanding rules underlying which turn influences topology-a process we have called evolution. Evolutionary processes favor group phenotypic composition, thus has been referred "collective niche construction".