TY - JOUR
T1 - The importance of individual-to-society feedbacks in animal ecology and evolution
AU - Cantor, Mauricio
AU - Maldonado-Chaparro, Adriana A.
AU - Beck, Kristina B.
AU - Brandl, Hanja B.
AU - Carter, Gerald G.
AU - He, Peng
AU - Hillemann, Friederike
AU - Klarevas-Irby, James A.
AU - Ogino, Mina
AU - Papageorgiou, Danai
AU - Prox, Lea
AU - Farine, Damien R.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful for the insightful comments by L. Aplin, N. Boogert, L. Brent, J. Chase, G. Cozzi, J. Firth, S. English, K. Foster, A. Ilany, S. Lang, P.O. Montiglio, A. Ozgul, A. Strandburg‐Peshkin, E. Strauss, R. Thorogood, J. Tung, K. Wanelik, Q. Weber and H. Whitehead. We also appreciate the many suggestions by M. Silk, S. Sosa and two other anonymous reviewers. This work was funded by the Max Planck Society, the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (850859), the DFG Centre of Excellence 2117 “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" (422037984) and a DFG grant (FA 1420/4‐1) awarded to D.R.F. M.C. was funded by a Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior postdoctoral fellowship (CAPES‐Brazil 88881.170254/2018‐01). G.G.C. was funded by an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship. P.H. was funded by a doctoral scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (201706100183). F.H. was funded by a Natural Environment Research Council studentship (1654580). D.P. was funded by studentships from the DAAD. We declare that we have no conflict of interests. Open access funding enabled and organised by ProjektDEAL.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors. Journal of Animal Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/9/8
Y1 - 2020/9/8
N2 - The social decisions that individuals make—who to interact with and how frequently—give rise to social structure. The resulting social structure then determines how individuals interact with their surroundings—resources and risks, pathogens and predators, competitors and cooperators. However, despite intensive research on (a) how individuals make social decisions and (b) how social structure shapes social processes (e.g. cooperation, competition and conflict), there are still few studies linking these two perspectives. These perspectives represent two halves of a feedback loop: individual behaviour scales up to define the social environment, and this environment, in turn, feeds back by shaping the selective agents that drive individual behaviour. We first review well-established research areas that have captured both elements of this feedback loop—host–pathogen dynamics and cultural transmission. We then highlight areas where social structure is well studied but the two perspectives remain largely disconnected. Finally, we synthesise existing research on 14 distinct research topics to identify new prospects where the interplay between social structure and social processes are likely to be important but remain largely unexplored. Our review shows that the inherent links between individuals’ traits, their social decisions, social structure and social evolution, warrant more consideration. By mapping the existing and missing connections among many research areas, our review highlights where explicitly considering social structure and the individual-to-society feedbacks can reveal new dimensions to old questions in ecology and evolution.
AB - The social decisions that individuals make—who to interact with and how frequently—give rise to social structure. The resulting social structure then determines how individuals interact with their surroundings—resources and risks, pathogens and predators, competitors and cooperators. However, despite intensive research on (a) how individuals make social decisions and (b) how social structure shapes social processes (e.g. cooperation, competition and conflict), there are still few studies linking these two perspectives. These perspectives represent two halves of a feedback loop: individual behaviour scales up to define the social environment, and this environment, in turn, feeds back by shaping the selective agents that drive individual behaviour. We first review well-established research areas that have captured both elements of this feedback loop—host–pathogen dynamics and cultural transmission. We then highlight areas where social structure is well studied but the two perspectives remain largely disconnected. Finally, we synthesise existing research on 14 distinct research topics to identify new prospects where the interplay between social structure and social processes are likely to be important but remain largely unexplored. Our review shows that the inherent links between individuals’ traits, their social decisions, social structure and social evolution, warrant more consideration. By mapping the existing and missing connections among many research areas, our review highlights where explicitly considering social structure and the individual-to-society feedbacks can reveal new dimensions to old questions in ecology and evolution.
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U2 - 10.1111/1365-2656.13336
DO - 10.1111/1365-2656.13336
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32895936
AN - SCOPUS:85092134970
SN - 0021-8790
VL - 90
SP - 27
EP - 44
JO - Journal of Animal Ecology
JF - Journal of Animal Ecology
IS - 1
ER -