Meeting: It's about Time: Understanding Temporal Variation in Animal Behavior, Anchorage, Alaska, June 15, 2015

Abstract是时候了：理解动物行为的时间变化在动物行为中，事情发生的时间和时间与发生的事情一样重要。行为改变的时间和持续时间可以决定这种改变是有益的还是有害的。更多地关注行为的时间方面将阐明动物如何应对不断变化的环境，群体中的个体如何相互反应，以及行为如何影响其他重要特征，如生理和免疫。通过汇集来自不同研究领域的研究人员，2015年动物行为学会会议的研讨会和研讨会将增加对行为时间方面的关注，产生研究行为随时间变化的新方法，并将这些见解应用于广泛的主题。研讨会的另一个方面将涉及早期职业研究人员的专业发展。了解个人的行为需要量化行为如何随着时间的推移而变化。然而，行为变化的时间维度往往被忽视。当研究人员确实处理行为的时间变化时，他们以明显不同的方式这样做，例如测量时间趋势，昼夜节律或可预测性。将这些不同的时间模式和动物行为的其他领域结合起来，将有助于更好地理解行为变异的原因和后果。例如，昼夜节律和动物个性之间的整合导致了对个体时间型的研究，这有望对动物行为的生态学和进化产生生物医学影响和影响。讲习班和专题讨论会的活动将扩大现有的结合点，并创造新的结合点。研讨会和研讨会的目标是：1）概述动物行为中尚未解决的重要时间问题，2）促进明确研究行为时间变化的领域和受时间变化影响的领域之间的整合，以及3）为研究人员提供工具来实验测试和分析行为的时间模式。

ABSTRACT It's about time: Understanding temporal variation in animal behaviorIn animal behavior, when something happens and for how long it happens can be just as important as what happens. The timing and duration of behavioral change can determine whether that change is beneficial or detrimental. A greater focus on temporal aspects of behavior will clarify how animals respond to their changing environment, how individuals in a group respond to one another, and how behavior influences other important traits like physiology and immunity. By bringing together researchers from diverse fields of study, the symposium and workshop at the 2015 Animal Behavior Society Meeting will increase focus on temporal aspects of behavior, generate new approaches to studying behavioral variation over time, and apply those insights to a broad range of topics. An additional facet of the workshop will involve professional development for early career researchers.Understanding the behavior of individuals requires quantifying how behavior changes over time. However, the temporal dimension of behavioral variation is often ignored. When researchers do address temporal variation in behavior, they do so in distinctly different ways, such as measuring time trends, circadian rhythms, or predictability. Integrating these different temporal patterns and other fields of animal behavior will provide a greater understanding of the causes and consequences of behavioral variation. For example, integration between circadian rhythms and animal personality has resulted in study on individual chronotypes, which promises to have biomedical impacts and implications for the ecology and evolution of animal behavior. The workshop and symposium activities will extend current points of integration and create new ones. The goals of the symposium and workshop are to 1) outline important unresolved temporal issues in animal behavior, 2) facilitate integration among fields that explicitly study temporal variation in behavior and those that are impacted by temporal variation, and 3) arm researchers with tools to experimentally test and analyze temporal patterns of behavior.