Integrating social networks, animal personalities, movement ecology and parasites: a framework with examples from a lizard

Sih, Andrew; Spiegel, Orr; Godfrey, Stephanie S.; Leu, Stephan T.; Bull, C. Michael

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.09.008

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“…several tick species that infect reptiles; Sih et al . ). Some pathogens may also alternate between direct and indirect modes; for example, Zika virus and canine leishmaniasis are both vector‐borne diseases with rare sexual transmission events.…”

Section: Movement Affects Diseasementioning

confidence: 97%

“…These networks have been a key part of efforts to understand how ticks are transmitted in sleepy lizards ( Tiliqua rugosa ), reptiles with an unusual life‐long pair breeding pattern that may facilitate tick transmission (Sih et al . ).…”

Section: Movement Affects Diseasementioning

confidence: 97%

“…some species of avian lice; R ozsa et al 1996), whereas others often spend time freely moving off-host (e.g. several tick species that infect reptiles; Sih et al 2017). Some pathogens may also alternate between direct and indirect modes; for example, Zika virus and canine leishmaniasis are both vector-borne diseases with rare sexual transmission events.…”

Section: Movement Affects Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…capture histories from an array of traps; Davis et al 2015) or the inclusion of a time lag to emphasise the spatial component of transmission (e.g. Sih et al 2017). For a visual example of these concepts, see Fig.…”

Section: Movement Affects Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…An extension of this approach allowed for the identification of the locations of interactions and revealed the sex-specific patterns underlying the network structure (Spiegel et al 2017b). These networks have been a key part of efforts to understand how ticks are transmitted in sleepy lizards (Tiliqua rugosa), reptiles with an unusual life-long pair breeding pattern that may facilitate tick transmission (Sih et al 2017).…”

Section: Movement Affects Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

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Going through the motions: incorporating movement analyses into disease research

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Though epidemiology dates back to the 1700s, most mathematical representations of epidemics still use transmission rates averaged at the population scale, especially for wildlife diseases. In simplifying the contact process, we ignore the heterogeneities in host movements that complicate the real world, and overlook their impact on spatiotemporal patterns of disease burden. Movement ecology offers a set of tools that help unpack the transmission process, letting researchers more accurately model how animals within a population interact and spread pathogens. Analytical techniques from this growing field can also help expose the reverse process: how infection impacts movement behaviours, and therefore other ecological processes like feeding, reproduction, and dispersal. Here, we synthesise the contributions of movement ecology in disease research, with a particular focus on studies that have successfully used movement-based methods to quantify individual heterogeneity in exposure and transmission risk. Throughout, we highlight the rapid growth of both disease and movement ecology and comment on promising but unexplored avenues for research at their overlap. Ultimately, we suggest, including movement empowers ecologists to pose new questions, expanding our understanding of host-pathogen dynamics and improving our predictive capacity for wildlife and even human diseases.

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Section: Movement Affects Diseasementioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Movement Affects Diseasementioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Movement Affects Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Movement Affects Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Movement Affects Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

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Land‐use change alters associations between personality and microhabitat selection

Brehm

Mortelliti

2021

Ecological Applications

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Ecologists commonly assess ecological patterns at the population level, focusing on the average response of all individuals within a population, but to predict how populations will respond to land‐use change we must understand how changes to habitat differentially affect individuals within a population. For example, forest management is a widespread type of land‐use that impacts wildlife through the loss of key habitat features, but individuals within a population may vary in their responses to this loss due to differences in habitat selection among individuals. Specifically, intraspecific variation in habitat selection has been linked to animal personalities (i.e., consistent behavioral differences among conspecifics), but previous research has not examined whether the relationship between personality and habitat selection is influenced by land‐use change. To address this knowledge gap, we tested the hypothesis that land‐use change alters the association between personality and microhabitat selection in small mammals. Specifically, we investigated two main questions: (1) To what extent are personality type and microhabitat selection correlated among conspecifics? (2) Does land‐use change alter individual patterns of microhabitat selection? To answer these questions, we conducted a large‐scale field experiment over 4 years, contrasting unmanaged forest (control) with managed forest (two silvicultural treatments) in Maine, USA. We examined the relationships between habitat selection and personality traits in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) and southern red‐backed voles (Myodes gapperi). We found that personality traits were correlated with microhabitat selection at multiple spatial scales. Furthermore, land‐use change altered these patterns of selection; resulting in either the loss of personality‐associated selection or in novel patterns of selection in managed forests. These findings suggest that promoting structural complexity at multiple spatial scales, such as by interspersing stands of mature forest with managed stands, may maintain a variety of intraspecific habitat selection patterns and the associated ecological outcomes.

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“Micropersonality” traits and their implications for behavioral and movement ecology research

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King

Codling

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Integrating social networks, animal personalities, movement ecology and parasites: a framework with examples from a lizard

Cited by 67 publications

References 87 publications

Going through the motions: incorporating movement analyses into disease research

Going through the motions: incorporating movement analyses into disease research

Land‐use change alters associations between personality and microhabitat selection

“Micropersonality” traits and their implications for behavioral and movement ecology research

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