Concepts
9 concepts
social network analysis
A method used to quantify social relationships that not only quantifies the direct relationship between a focal individual and its social partners, but also describes the position of the focal individ...
animal model
Statistical approach that includes individual identity as a random effect linked to a pedigree to estimate additive genetic variance
time budget
The allocation of time among different activities that determines overall energy expenditure patterns
Life Table Response Experiment
A method to partition variance in population growth rate into contributions arising from temporal covariances of demographic parameters at different time lags
long-term ecological studies
Ecological research projects that follow individuals or systems over extended periods, often spanning decades
collaborative sensing
Approach where multiple distributed sensors work together to achieve better performance than individual sensors
covariance reaction norm
Statistical model allowing phenotypic correlations between traits to vary continuously with environmental predictors
data archiving
The practice of making research data publicly available for verification and reuse
within-individual centering approach
An analytical approach where deviations from an individual's average behavior or phenotype are calculated to quantify and analyze how an individual's social phenotype may change over time.