Measuring Variation in the Frequency of Group Fission and Fusion from Continuous Monitoring of Group Sizes

摘要: The frequency of group fission and fusion is critical for understanding the evolution sociality, as it measures cohesiveness, which can confer a high fitness value on individuals who practice it. Variations in also reveal an individual's response to environmental changes. As fission—fusion dynamics influence risk disease transmission, measuring accurately may have implications population management. Here, we extend method assess from continuous monitoring composition. former was based variation size (i.e., party/subgroup size) within marked were successively recorded. Upon validation here, propose correction, using coefficient instead size. We performed our study enclosed herd reindeer, Rangifer tarandus. All reindeer tracked Global Positioning Syste...