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Nature ecology & evolution
2025
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| Online Access: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40908382/ |
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Table of Contents:
- Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems. Albery, Gregory F Becker, Daniel J Firth, Josh A De Moor, Delphine Ravindran, Sanjana Silk, Matthew Sweeny, Amy R Vander Wal, Eric Webber, Quinn Allen, Bryony Babayan, Simon A Barve, Sahas Begon, Mike Birtles, Richard J Block, Theadora A Block, Barbara A Bradley, Janette E Budischak, Sarah Buesching, Christina Burthe, Sarah J Carlisle, Aaron B Caselle, Jennifer E Cattuto, Ciro Chaine, Alexis S Chapple, Taylor K Cheney, Barbara J Clutton-Brock, Timothy Collier, Melissa Curnick, David J Delahay, Richard J Farine, Damien R Fenton, Andy Ferretti, Francesco Feyrer, Laura Fielding, Helen Foroughirad, Vivienne Frere, Celine Gardner, Michael G Geffen, Eli Godfrey, Stephanie S Graham, Andrea L Hammond, Phil S Henrich, Maik Heurich, Marco Hopwood, Paul Ilany, Amiyaal Jackson, Joseph A Jackson, Nicola Jacoby, David M P Jacoby, Ann-Marie Ježek, Miloš Kirkpatrick, Lucinda Klamm, Alisa Klarevas-Irby, James A Knowles, Sarah Koren, Lee Krzyszczyk, Ewa Kusch, Jillian M Lambin, Xavier Lane, Jeffrey E Leirs, Herwig Leu, Stephan T Lyon, Bruce E Macdonald, David W Madsen, Anastasia E Mann, Janet Manser, Marta Mariën, Joachim Massawe, Apia McDonald, Robbie A Morelle, Kevin Mourier, Johann Newman, Chris Nussear, Kenneth Nyaguthii, Brendah Ogino, Mina Ozella, Laura Packer, Craig Papastamatiou, Yannis P Paterson, Steve Payne, Eric Pedersen, Amy B Pemberton, Josephine M Pinter-Wollman, Noa Planes, Serge Raulo, Aura Rodríguez-Muñoz, Rolando Rudd, Lauren Sabuni, Christopher Sah, Pratha Schallert, Robert J Sheldon, Ben C Shizuka, Daizaburo Sih, Andrew Sinn, David L Sluydts, Vincent Spiegel, Orr Telfer, Sandra Thomason, Courtney A Tickler, David M Tregenza, Tom VanderWaal, Kimberley Walmsley, Sam Walters, Eric L Wanelik, Klara M Whitehead, Hal Wielgus, Elodie Wilson-Aggarwal, Jared Wohlfeil, Caroline Bansal, Shweta Population Density Animals, Wild Behavior, Animal Social Behavior Animals Animal Distribution Spatial Analysis Theory predicts that high population density leads to more strongly connected spatial and social networks, but how local density drives individuals' positions within their networks is unclear. This gap reduces our ability to understand and predict density-dependent processes. Here we show that density drives greater network connectedness at the scale of individuals within wild animal populations. Across 36 datasets of spatial and social behaviour in >58,000 individual animals, spanning 30 species of fish, reptiles, birds, mammals and insects, 80% of systems exhibit strong positive relationships between local density and network centrality. However, >80% of relationships are nonlinear and 75% are shallower at higher values, indicating saturating trends that probably emerge as a result of demographic and behavioural processes that counteract density's effects. These are stronger and less saturating in spatial compared with social networks, as individuals become disproportionately spatially connected rather than socially connected at higher densities. Consequently, ecological processes that depend on spatial connections are probably more density dependent than those involving social interactions. These findings suggest fundamental scaling rules governing animal social dynamics, which could help to predict network structures in novel systems.