Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour
Satellite @ CCS 2024 - Exeter, September 2024
Animal groups can be considered as complex systems of interacting entities (the individuals). The collective behaviour of animal groups is an emergent outcome of the traits of individuals within the group and their social interactions. The group- and population-level structures and dynamics that result have profound implications for key ecological (e.g., infectious disease transmission) and evolutionary processes, meaning that they are of great fundamental and applied interest.
While massive steps forward have happened in applying complex systems approaches —such as social network analysis— to study animal behaviour, there remains limited exchange between the research fields. Not only could more interdisciplinary work contribute greatly to answering exciting ecological and evolutionary questions, the datasets now available from non-human animals offer great potential to test key theoretical ideas in complex systems research. Therefore, we are very happy to announce the first edition of Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB): a cross-disciplinary satellite meeting to encourage greater exchange between these fields within the Conference on Complex Systems.
Topics
Animal social networks
Collective animal behaviour
Animal communication
Animal cognition
Disease ecology
Evolutionary biology
Studies that combine complexity and animal behaviour that do not fall within the above are also welcome!
Registration and Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: June 17, 2024
Early bird registration deadline: July 15, 2024
Satellite participants must be registered for the main conference. There is no separate registration for the satellite.
If you would like to give a talk at the satellite, you need to submit an abstract directly to the satellite (see below).
Call for Abstracts
We encourage the submission of abstracts to be considered for contributed talks in the form of 10/15 min presentations.
Participants can submit an abstract in PDF format using the EasyChair website (button below). Authors not already registered on EasyChair should sign up for an account.
Submissions should be at most 2 pages long (including any figure and references) and should include: title, author(s), and affiliation(s).
Submitted abstracts will be evaluated and selected according to adherence with the theme of the satellite, originality of the research, and scientific soundness.
The submission system will remain open until the end of June 17, 2024 (AoE).
Organisers
Behavioural Ecology Group, University of Copenhagen
Network Science Institute, Northeastern University London
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh
Speakers
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Programme
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Location and general information
The satellite will take place at the same venue of the Conference on Complex Systems, the campus of University of Exeter ---a few minutes away from the main train station.
More info on how to reach the venue can be found here.
For other information, such as VISA requirements, please check the dedicated webpage of the main conference.
