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Nutritional ecology beyond the individual: a conceptual framework for integrating nutrition and social interactions
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Lihoreau, M and Buhl, J and Charleston, MA and Sword, GA and Raubenheimer, D and Simpson, SJ, Nutritional ecology beyond the individual: a conceptual framework for integrating nutrition and social interactions, Ecology Letters, 18, (3) pp. 273-286. ISSN 1461-023X (2015) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Over recent years, modelling approaches from nutritional ecology (known as Nutritional Geometry)
have been increasingly used to describe how animals and some other organisms select
foods and eat them in appropriate amounts in order to maintain a balanced nutritional state maximising
fitness. These nutritional strategies profoundly affect the physiology, behaviour and
performance of individuals, which in turn impact their social interactions within groups and societies.
Here, we present a conceptual framework to study the role of nutrition as a major ecological
factor influencing the development and maintenance of social life. We first illustrate some of the
mechanisms by which nutritional differences among individuals mediate social interactions in a
broad range of species and ecological contexts. We then explain how studying individual- and
collective-level nutrition in a common conceptual framework derived from Nutritional Geometry
can bring new fundamental insights into the mechanisms and evolution of social interactions,
using a combination of simulation models and manipulative experiments.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | collective animal behaviour, individual-based models, nutritional ecology, nutritional geometry, social biology, social interactions |
Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Genetics |
Research Field: | Genetics not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences |
UTAS Author: | Charleston, MA (Professor Michael Charleston) |
ID Code: | 100233 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 69 |
Deposited By: | Mathematics and Physics |
Deposited On: | 2015-05-07 |
Last Modified: | 2017-10-31 |
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