NSF-BSF: Uncovering how links between social and spatial interactions affect ecological processes

NSF-BSF：揭示社会和空间相互作用之间的联系如何影响生态过程

• 批准号: 2015662
• 负责人: Noa Pinter-Wollman
• 金额: $ 104.18万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2015662&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; BSF; Uncovering; how; links

Understanding how societies form and operate requires the processes that shape social interactions to be uncovered. Interactions occur in many different situations, for example, individuals can be in physical proximity, have negative, or positive interactions, etc. Each of these situations provides a different contribution to the structure of a society, yet often such situations are studied separately. Furthermore, physical constraints, such as geographical barriers and man-made structures can impact who interacts with whom. Such physical features are seldom considered when examining social interactions. This work will develop tools to integrate different social situations and physical constraints into a single framework, allowing us to uncover the causes and consequences of social interactions. The researchers will implement these new tools to study how social and physical features impact disease dynamics in griffon vultures. In the study population nearly every individual can be monitored to obtain information on their movements and social interactions. The investigators will make new tools widely available to the general public and the scientific community. This study system has conservation importance because vultures are an umbrella species that provide ecosystem services (e.g., sanitation), and thus have financial and public health implications. A wildlife tracking app will be developed to alert wildlife managers when tagged animals perform unexpected behavior. Such a tool can be used in any system in which wildlife can be tracked remotely. Thus, this work will have both conservation implications and will develop analysis tools that will define how scientists social interactions, including those of humans.Animals interact with their physical and social environments in ways that impact their fitness. Social animals can benefit from associating with conspecifics to gain knowledge about the location, availability, and quality of resources. Furthermore, the physical environment influences animal movements and therefore their social interactions. To integrate social and spatial processes and uncover their feedbacks and consequences, this work will develop a novel conceptual framework based on recent developments in multilayer network analysis. Researchers will implement new methods to study the Israeli population of griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) which is heavily managed, here most individuals in the population can be tagged and tracked. Using remote tracking that combines GPS and accelerometers, experimental manipulations, and behavioral observations, this research will study the links between the social and spatial networks of griffons and their joint impacts on disease dynamics in the population. First, research will uncover the role of different social situations in the global social structure. Next, research will examine the relationship between social interactions and the connectivity of spatial features to determine if interactions are the result of spatial constraints on proximity and/or social preferences. Finally, research will determine the effect of the relationship between social and spatial interactions on disease dynamics – a population level process. This work will combine high resolution animal tracking with large scale field based experimental manipulations and novel analytic developments in network science. Researcher here will create the foundations for integrating new analytic tools to investigate how social and ecological processes interact to shape sociality.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

理解社会是如何形成和运作的，需要揭示塑造社会互动的过程。互动发生在许多不同的情况下，例如，个体可以在物理上接近，有消极或积极的互动，等等。每一种情况对社会结构都有不同的贡献，但这些情况往往是分开研究的。此外，物理限制，如地理障碍和人造结构，会影响谁与谁相互作用。在研究社会互动时，很少考虑到这些身体特征。这项工作将开发工具，将不同的社会情境和物理限制整合到一个单一的框架中，使我们能够揭示社会互动的原因和后果。研究人员将使用这些新工具来研究社会和身体特征如何影响狮鹫秃鹫的疾病动态。在研究人群中，几乎每个人都可以被监控，以获取他们的活动和社会互动的信息。研究人员将向公众和科学界广泛提供新的工具。该研究系统具有重要的保护意义，因为秃鹫是提供生态系统服务（如卫生）的保护伞物种，因此具有经济和公共卫生意义。将开发一款野生动物跟踪应用程序，当被标记的动物有意外行为时，它会提醒野生动物管理人员。这种工具可以用于任何可以远程跟踪野生动物的系统。因此，这项工作将具有保护意义，并将开发分析工具，以定义科学家如何进行社会互动，包括人类的互动。动物与自然环境和社会环境的相互作用影响着它们的健康。群居动物可以从与同种动物的联系中获益，从而获得有关资源的位置、可用性和质量的知识。此外，自然环境影响动物的运动，从而影响它们的社会互动。为了整合社会和空间过程，揭示它们的反馈和后果，这项工作将基于多层网络分析的最新发展，开发一个新的概念框架。研究人员将采用新的方法来研究以色列狮鹫秃鹫（Gyps fulvus）的种群，该种群受到严格管理，种群中的大多数个体可以被标记和跟踪。利用GPS和加速度计相结合的远程跟踪、实验操作和行为观察，本研究将研究狮鹫的社会网络和空间网络之间的联系及其对种群疾病动态的共同影响。首先，研究将揭示不同社会情境在全球社会结构中的作用。接下来，研究将检验社会互动与空间特征连通性之间的关系，以确定互动是否是空间限制对邻近性和/或社会偏好的结果。最后，研究将确定社会和空间相互作用之间的关系对疾病动态的影响-一个人口水平的过程。这项工作将结合高分辨率动物跟踪与大规模现场实验操作和网络科学的新分析发展。这里的研究者将为整合新的分析工具创造基础，以研究社会和生态过程如何相互作用以形成社会性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Harvester ant nest architecture is more strongly affected by intrinsic than extrinsic factors

• DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arac026
• 发表时间: 2022-04-13
• 期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: O'Fallon, Sean;Lowell, Eva Sofia Horna;Pinter-Wollman, Noa
• 通讯作者: Pinter-Wollman, Noa

Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface

空间-社会界面的行为生态学

• DOI: 10.1111/brv.12934
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Biological Reviews
• 影响因子: 10
• 作者: Webber, Quinn M. R.;Albery, Gregory F.;Farine, Damien R.;Pinter‐Wollman, Noa;Sharma, Nitika;Spiegel, Orr;Vander Wal, Eric;Manlove, Kezia
• 通讯作者: Manlove, Kezia

Dissecting how behavior and environment shape spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.

剖析行为和环境如何塑造空间个性：对 Stuber 等人的评论

• DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arac009
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Behavioral Ecology
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Spiegel, Orr;Pinter-Wollman, Noa;Simmons, ed., Leigh
• 通讯作者: Simmons, ed., Leigh

A reproductive heir has a central position in multilayer social networks of paper wasps

繁殖继承人在纸黄蜂的多层社交网络中处于中心地位

• DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.12.011
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Animal Behaviour
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Sharma, Nitika;Gadagkar, Raghavendra;Pinter-Wollman, Noa
• 通讯作者: Pinter-Wollman, Noa