Social organization and foraging success in Lasius neoniger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): behavioral and ecological aspects of recruitment communication

Oecologia ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. A. Traniello
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Foraging Success ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
Recruitment Communication ◽  
Lasius Neoniger

Individual differences in territory and growth of ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis (Osmeridae)

1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (12) ◽  
pp. 2170-2177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu Katano ◽  
Kei'ichiroh Iguchi
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Fish Growth ◽  
Foraging Success ◽  
Plecoglossus Altivelis ◽  
Aggressive Interactions ◽  
Natural Streams ◽  
Territory Formation

We observed 10 categories of behaviour in 133 ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis, kept individually in isolated aquaria, and separated three individuality components, aggressiveness, activity, and slow reaction, by factor analysis. We then divided 84 of the fish into 14 groups, each comprising 6 individuals, and released each group into one of four ponds designed to simulate natural streams for a 10-day period to investigate their territory formation and growth rates. Individuals that showed aggression towards an ayu model in the aquaria tended to engage in many aggressive interactions with other individuals in the ponds. Large and active individuals from the aquaria were dominant over other individuals in the ponds. The increase in aggressive interactions and percentage of encounters won increased the territorial period of individual fish. Growth rate was significantly correlated with territorial period, indicating that individual differences were important in social organization and individual foraging success.

Seeking Structure in Social Organization: Personal Control and Hierarchies

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin P. Friesen ◽  
Aaron C. Kay ◽  
Richard P. Eibach ◽  
Adam D. Galinsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Personal Control

ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DAGESTAN NATURAL WATER PROTECTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
T.I., Abdulganieva ◽  
◽  
Sh.G. Samedov ◽  
S.A., Mamaev ◽  
A.S. Kurbanismailova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Water ◽  
Water Protection ◽  
Ecological Aspects

Social organization in the Orcadian Neolithic: identification of elite domestic structures and settlements through analysis of excavation data

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
David MacInnes
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Qualitative Evidence ◽  
Methods Of Analysis ◽  
The Subject

The nature of social organization during the Orcadian Neolithic has been the subject of discussion for several decades with much of the debate focused on answering an insightful question posed by Colin Renfrew in 1979. He asked, how was society organised to construct the larger, innovative monuments of the Orcadian Late Neolithic that were centralised in the western Mainland? There are many possible answers to the question but little evidence pointing to a probable solution, so the discussion has continued for many years. This paper takes a new approach by asking a different question: what can be learned about Orcadian Neolithic social organization from the quantitative and qualitative evidence accumulating from excavated domestic structures and settlements?In an attempt to answer this question, quantitative and qualitative data about domestic structures and about settlements was collected from published reports on 15 Orcadian Neolithic excavated sites. The published data is less extensive than hoped but is sufficient to support a provisional answer: a social hierarchy probably did not develop in the Early Neolithic but almost certainly did in the Late Neolithic, for which the data is more comprehensive.While this is only one approach of several possible ways to consider the question, it is by exploring different methods of analysis and comparing them that an understanding of the Orcadian Neolithic can move forward.

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