Publications

Mbizah, M.M., Farine, D.R., Valeix, M., Hunt, J.E., Macdonald, D.W., Loveridge, A.J. (2020) Effect of ecological factors on fine-scale patterns of social structure in African lions. Journal of Animal Ecology. 

Ferreira, A.C., Silva, L.R., Renna, F., Brandl, H.B., Renoult, J.P., Farine, D.R., Covas, R., Doutrelant, C. (2020) Deep learning-based methods for individual recognition in small birds. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Ferreira, A.C., Covas, R., Silva, L.R., Esteves, S.C., Duarte, I.F., Fortuna, R., Theron, F., Doutrelant, C., Farine, D.R. (2020) How to make methodological decisions when inferring social networks. Ecology & Evolution.

Bond, M.L., König, B., Lee, D.E., Ozgul, A., Farine, D.R. (in press) Proximity to humans affects local social structure in a giraffe metapopulation. Journal of Animal Ecology.

Hilleman, F., Cole, E.F., Sheldon, B.C., Farine, D.R. (2020) Information use in foraging flocks of songbirds – no evidence for social transmission of patch quality. Animal Behaviour 165: 35-41.

Kurvers, R.H.J.M, Prox, L., Farine, D.R., Jongeling, C., Snijders, L. (2020) Season-specific carry-over of early-life associations in a monogamous bird species. Animal Behaviour 164: 25-37.

Farine, D.R. (in press) Mapping illegal wildlife trade networks provides new opportunities for conservation actions. Animal Conservation.

Beck, K.B., Farine, D.R., Kempenaers, B. (2020) Winter associations predict social and extra-pair mating patterns in a wild songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20192606.

Carter, G.G., Farine, D.R., Crisp, R.J., Vrtilek, J.K., Ripperger, S.P., Page, R.A. (in press) Development of new food-sharing relationships in vampire bats. Current Biology.

Goodale, E., Sridhar, H., Sieving, K.E.; Bangal, P., Colorado G.Z., Farine, D.R., Heymann, E.W., Jones, H.H., Krams, I., Martínez, A.E., Montaño-Centellas, F., Muñoz, J., Srinivasan, U., Theo, A., Shanker, K. (in press) Mixed company: A framework for understanding the composition and organization of mixed-species animal groups. Biological Reviews.

Prox, L.-M., Farine, D.R. (in press) A framework for conceptualizing dimensions of social organization in mammals. Ecology & Evolution 10: 791-807.

Farine, D.R. (in press) Structural trade-offs can predict rewiring in shrinking social networks. Journal of Animal Ecology.

Armansin, N.C., Stow, A.J., Cantor, M., Leu, S.T., Klarevas-Irby, J.A., Chariton, A.A., Farine, D.R. (in press) Social barriers in ecological landscapes: the social resistance hypothesis. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35(2): 137-148.

Montiglio, P.-O., Gotanda, K., Kratochwil, C., Laskowski, K., Farine, D.R. (2020) Hierarchically-embedded interaction networks in the study of behavioural and community ecology. Behavioural Ecology 31(2):  279–286.

Brandl, H.B., Griffith, S.C., Farine, D.R., Schuett, W. (in press) Wild zebra finches that nest synchronously have long-term stable social ties. Journal of Animal Ecology (coming soon)

Maldonado-Chaparro, A.A., Farine, D.R. (2020) Demographic processes in animal networks are a question of time: a comment on Daizaburo & Johnson. Behavioural Ecology 31(1): 12-13.

Papageorgiou, D., Christensen, C., Gall, G.E.C., Klarevas-Irby, J., Nyaguthii, B., Couzin, I.D., Farine, D.R. (2019) The multilevel society of a small-brained bird. Current Biology 29(24): R1120-R1121.

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Farine, D.R., Aplin, L.M. (2019) Spurious inference when comparing networks. PNAS 116(34): 16674-16675.

McCarthy, M.S., Després-Einspenner, M.-L., Farine, D.R., Samuni, L., Angedakina, S., Arandjelovica, M., Boesch, C., Dieguez, P., Havercamp, K., Knight, A., Langergraber, K.E.,  Murai, M., Wittig, R.M., Kühl, H.S. (in press) Camera traps provide a robust alternative to direct observations for constructing social networks of wild chimpanzees. Animal Behaviour

Brandl, H.B., Farine, D.R., Funghi, C., Schuett, W., Griffith, S.C. (2019) Early-life social environment predicts social network position in wild zebra finches. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20182579.

Hillemann, F., Cole, E.F., Keen, S.C., Sheldon, B.C., Farine, D.R. (2019) Diurnal variation in the production of vocal information about food supports a model of social adjustment in wild songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20182740.

Carter, G.G., Schino, G., Farine, D.R. (2019) Challenges in assessing the roles of nepotism and reciprocity in cooperation networks. Animal Behaviour 150: 255-271.

Wilkinson, G.S., Carter, G.G., Bohn, K.M., Baspers, B., Chaverri, G., Farine, D.R., Günther, L., Kerth, G., Knörnschild, M., Mayer, F., Nagy, M., Ortega, J., Patriquin, K. (2019) Kinship, association and social complexity in bats. Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology 73: 7.

Lang, S.D.J., Mann, R.P., Farine, D.R. (2019) Temporal activity patterns of predators and prey across broad geographic scales. Behavioural Ecology 30(1): 172–180.

He, P., Maldonado-Chaparro, A.A., Farine, D.R. (2019) The role of habitat configuration in shaping social structure: a gap in studies of animal social complexity. Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology 73: 9.

Somveille, M., Firth, J.A., Aplin, L.M., Farine, D.R., Sheldon, B.C., Thompson, R.N. (2018) Movement and conformity interact to establish local behavioural traditions in animal populations. PLoS Computational Biology 14(12): e1006647.

Maldonado-Chaparro, A.A., Alarcón-Nieto, G., Klarevas-Irby, J.A., Farine, D.R. (2018) Experimental disturbances reveal group-level costs of social instability. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20181577.

Smaldino, P.E., Aplin, L.M., Farine, D.R. (2018) Sigmoidal Acquisition Curves Are Good Indicators of Conformist Transmission. Scientific Reports 8: 14015.

Boogert, N.J., Lachlan, R.F., Spencer, K.A., Templeton, C.N., Farine, D.R. (2018) Stress hormones, social associations and song learning in zebra finches. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 373: 20170290.

Davis, G.H., Crofoot, M.C., Farine, D.R. (2018) Estimating the robustness and uncertainty of animal social networks using different observational methods. Animal Behaviour 141: 29-44.

Cantor, M., Farine, D.R. (2018) Simple foraging rules in competitive environments can generate socially-structured populations. Ecology and Evolution 8(10): 4978-4991.

Marthy, W., Farine, D.R. (2018) The potential impacts of the songbird trade on mixed-species flocking. Biological Conservation 222: 222-231.

Alarcón-Nieto, G., Graving, J.M., Klarevas-Irby, J.A., Maldonado-Chaparro, A.A., Mueller, I., Farine, D.R. (2018) An automated barcode tracking system for behavioural studies in birds. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9(6): 1536-1547.

Moyers, S.C., Adelman, J.S., Farine, D.R., Moore, I.T., Hawley, D.M. (2018) Exploratory behavior is linked to stress physiology and social network centrality in free-living house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus). Hormones and Behaviour 102: 105-113.

Maldonado-Chaparro, A.A., Montiglio, P.-O., Forstmeier, W., Kempenaers, B., Farine, D.R. (2018) Linking the fine-scale social environment to mating decisions: a future direction for the study of extra-pair paternity. Biological Reviews 93(3): 1558-1577.

Moyers, S.C., Adelman, J.S., Farine, D.R., Thomason, C.A., Hawley, D.M. (2018) Feeder density enhances house finch disease transmission in experimental epidemics. Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society B 373: 20170090.

Sánchez-Tójar, A. Schroeder, J., Farine, D.R. (2018) A practical guide for inferring reliable dominance hierarchies and estimating their uncertainty. Journal of Animal Ecology 87(3): 594-608.

Farine, D.R. (2018) When to choose dynamic vs. static social network analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology  87(1): 128-138.

Montiglio, P.O., McGlothlin, J.W., Farine, D.R. (2018) Social structure modulates the evolutionary consequences of social plasticity: taking a social network perspective of interacting phenotypes. Ecology and Evolution  8(3): 1451–1464.

Strandburg-Peshkin, A., Papageorgiou, D., Crofoot, M.C., Farine, D.R. (2018) Inferring influence and leadership in moving animal groups. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 373: 20170006.

Hoppitt, W., Farine, D.R. (2018) Association indices for quantifying social relationships: how to deal with missing observations of individuals or groups. Animal Behaviour 136: 227-238.

McDonald, G.C., Farine, D.R., Foster, K.R., Biernaskie, J.M. (2017) Assortment and the analysis of natural selection on social traits. Evolution 71(11): 2693-2702.

Lang, S.D.J., Farine, D.R. A multidimensional framework for studying social predation strategies. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1230-1239.

Radersma, R., Garroway, C.J., Santure, A., de Cauwer, I., Farine, D.R., Slate, J., Sheldon, B.C. (2017) Social and spatial effects on genetic variation between foraging flocks in a wild bird population. Molecular Ecology 26(20): 5807–5819.

Isbell, L.A., Bidner, L.R., Crofoot, M.C., Matsumoto-Oda, A., Farine, D.R. (2017) GPS-identified, low-level nocturnal activity of vervets (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) and olive baboons (Papio anubis) in Laikipia, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 164(1): 203-211.

Carter, G.G., Farine, D.R., Wilkinson, G.S. (2017) Social bet-hedging in vampire bats. Biology Letters 13: 20170112.

Johnson, K.V.-A, Aplin, L.M., Cole, E.F., Farine, D.R., Firth, J.A., Patrick, S.C., Sheldon, B.C. (2017) Male great tits assort by personality during the breeding season. Animal Behaviour 128: 21-32.

Farine, D.R. (2017) A guide to null models for animal social network analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8(10): 1309-1320.

Farine, D.R. (2017) The dynamics of transmission and the dynamics of networks. Journal of Animal Ecology 86(3): 415-418.

Strandburg-Peshkin, A., Farine, D.R., Crofoot, M. C. & Couzin, I.D. (2017) Habitat and social factors shape individual decisions and emergent group structure during baboon collective movement, eLife 6:e19505. OPEN ACCESS

Francesiaz, C, Farine, DR, Laforge, C, Béchet, A, Sadoul, N, Besnard, A (2017) Familiarity drives social philopatry in an obligate colonial breeder with weak interannual breeding-site fidelity. Animal Behaviour 124: 83-94.

Miller, ET, Farine, DR, Trisos, CH (2017) Phylogenetic community structure metrics and null models: a review with new methods and software. Ecography 40(4): 461–477.

Farine, DR, Strandburg-Peshkin, A, Berger-Wolf, T, Ziebart, B, Brugere, I, Li, J, Crofoot, MC (2016) Both Nearest Neighbours and Long-term Affiliates Predict Individual Locations During Collective Movement in Wild Baboons. Scientific Reports 6: 27704.

Firth, JA, Sheldon, BC, Farine, DR (2016) Pathways of information transmission amongst wild songbirds follow experimentally imposed changes in social foraging structure. Biology Letters 12: 20160144.

Crates, RA, Firth, JA, Farine, DR, Garroway, CJ, Kidd, LR, Aplin, LM, Radersma, R, Milligan, ND, Voelkl, B, Culina, A, Verhelst, BL, Hinde, CA, Sheldon, BC (2017) Individual variation in winter supplementary food consumption and its consequences for reproduction in wild birds. Journal of Avian Biology 47(5): 678-689.

Shizuka, D, Farine, DR (2016) Measuring the robustness of network community structure using assortativity. Animal Behaviour 112: 237-246.

Leu, ST, Farine, DR, Wey, TW, Sih, A, Bull, M (2016) Environment modulates population social structure: experimental evidence from replicated social networks of wild lizards. Animal Behaviour 111:23-31.

Aplin, LM, Farine, DR, Morand-Ferron, J, Cockburn, A, Thornton, A, Sheldon, BC (2015) Counting conformity: evaluating the units of measurement in frequency-dependent social learning. Animal Behaviour 110:e5-e8. 

Firth, JA, Voelkl, B, Farine, DR, Sheldon, BC (2015) Experimental evidence that social relationships determine individual foraging behaviour. Current Biology 25:1-6.
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Farine, DR, Strandburg-Peshkin, A (2015) Estimating uncertainty and reliability of social network data using Bayesian inference. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150367. * both authors contributed equally
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Farine, DR, Montiglio, PO, Spiegel, O (2015) From individuals to groups and back: the evolutionary implications of group phenotypic composition. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30(10): 609-621. * all authors contributed equally

Farine, DR*, Spencer, KA, Boogert, NJ* (2015) Early-Life Stress Triggers Juvenile Zebra Finches to Switch Social Learning Strategies. Current Biology 25(16): 2184-2188. (link) * equal contributors
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Strandburg-Peshkin, A*, Farine, DR*, Couzin, ID, Crofoot, MC (2015) Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons. Science 348(6241): 1358-1361. * joint first authors 
See media highlights altmetric score including a nice article in National Geographic and a video by Untamed Science.

Farine, DR, Whitehead, H (2015) Constructing, conducting, and interpreting animal social network analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology 84(5): 1144-1163.

Farine, DR, Firth, JA, Aplin, LM, Crates, RA, Culina, A, Garroway, CJ, Hinde, CA, Kidd, LR, Milligan, ND, Psorakis, I, Radersma, R, Verhelst, B, Voelkl, B, Sheldon, BC (2015) The role of social and ecological processes in structuring animal populations: a case study from automated tracking of wild birds. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150057.

Aplin, LM, Firth, JA, Farine, DR, Voelkl, B, Crates, RA, Culina, A, Garroway, CJ, Hinde, CA, Kidd, LR, Psorakis, I, Milligan, ND, Radersma, R, Verhelst, B, Sheldon, BC (2015) Consistent individual differences in the social phenotypes of wild great tits (Parus major). Animal Behaviour 108: 117-127.

Psorakis, I, Voelkl, B, Garroway, CJ, Radersma, R, Aplin, LM, Crates, RA, Culina, A, Farine, DR, Firth, JA, Hinde, CA, Kidd, LR, Milligan, ND, Roberts, SJ, Verhelst, B, Sheldon, BC (2015) Inferring Social Structure from Temporal Data. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 69(5): 857-866.

Farine, D.R., Sheldon, B.C. (2015) Selection for territory acquisition is modulated by social network structure in a wild songbird. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28(3): 547-556.

Farine, DR, Aplin, LM, Sheldon, BC, Hoppitt, W (2015) Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20142804.

Aplin, LM, Farine, DR, Morand-Ferron, J, Cockburn, A, Thornton, A, Sheldon, BC (2015) Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds. Nature 518: 538-541.
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Adelman, JS, Moyers, SC, Farine DR, Hawley, DM (2015) Feeder use predicts both acquisition and transmission of a contagious pathogen in a North American songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20151429.

Farine, DR (2015) Proximity as a proxy for interactions: issues of scale in social network analysis. Animal Behaviour 104: e1-e5.

Boogert, NJ*, Farine, DR*, Spencer, KA (2014) Developmental stress predicts social network position. Biology Letters 10(10): 20140561. * joint first authors

Godfrey, SS, Anasri, TH, Gardner, MG, Farine, DR, Bull, CM (2014) A contact based social network of lizards is defined by low genetic relatedness among strongly-connected individuals. Animal Behaviour 97: 35-43.

Farine, DR, Aplin, LM, Garroway, CJ, Mann, RP, Sheldon, BC (2014) Collective decision-making and social interaction rules in mixed-species flocks of songbirds. Animal Behaviour 95: 173-182.

Aplin, LM*, Farine, DR*, Mann, RP, Sheldon, BC (2014) Individual-level personality influences social foraging and collective behaviour in wild birds. Proceedings of the Royals Society B 218 (1789): 20141016. * joint first authors

Farine, DR, Downing, CP, Downing, PA (2014) Mixed-species associations can arise without heterospecific attraction. Behavioural Ecology 25(3): 574-581.

Farine, DR (2014) Measuring phenotypic assortment in animal social networks: weighted associations are more robust than binary edges. Animal Behaviour 89: 141-153.

Farine, DR & Milburn, PJ (2013) Social organisation of thornbill-dominated mixed-species flocks using social network analysis. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 67(2): 321-330.

Farine, DR, Lang, SD (2013) The early bird gets the worm: foraging strategies of wild songbirds lead to the early discovery of food sources. Biology Letters 9(6): 20130578.
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Aplin, LM, Farine, DR, Morand-Ferron, J, Cole, EF, Cockburn, A, Sheldon, BC (2013) Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major). Ecology Letters 16(11): 1365–1372.

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Farine, DR (2013) Animal Social Network Inference and Permutations for Ecologists in R using asnipe. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4(12): 1187–1194.

Farine, DR, Garroway, CJ, Sheldon, BC (2012) Social Network Analysis of mixed-species flocks: exploring the structure and evolution of interspecific social behaviour. Animal Behaviour 84: 1271-1277.

Herr, A, O’Connell, D, Farine, DR, Dunlop, M, Crimp, S, Poole, M (2012) Watching grass grow in Australia: is there sufficient production potential for a biofuel industry? Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 6(3): 257-268.

Aplin, LM, Farine, DR, Morand-Ferron, J, Sheldon, BC (2012) Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279(1745): 4199-4205.

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Farine, DR, O’Connell, DA, Raison, RJ, plus 12 co-authors (2011) An assessment of biomass for bioelectricity and biofuel, and for greenhouse gas emission reduction in Australia. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 4(2): 148-175.

Rodriguez, LC, May, B, Herr, A, Farine, DR, O’Connell, D (2011) Biofuel excision and the viability of ethanol production in the Green Triangle, Australia.  Energy Policy 39(4): 1951-1957.

Farine, DR, O’Connell, DA, Grant, T, Poole, ML (2010) Opportunities for energy efficiency and biofuel production in Australian wheat farming systems.  Biofuels 1(4): 547-561.