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Quinn Webber

Assistant Professor, University of Guelph
Verified email at uoguelph.ca
Cited by 895

An evolutionary framework outlining the integration of individual social and spatial ecology

QMR Webber, E Vander Wal - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Behaviour is the interface between an organism and its environment, and behavioural
plasticity is important for organisms to cope with environmental change. Social behaviour is …

Trends and perspectives on the use of animal social network analysis in behavioural ecology: a bibliometric approach

QMR Webber, E Vander Wal - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
The increased popularity and accessibility of social network analysis has improved our
ability to test hypotheses about complex animal social structures. To gain a deeper …

Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface

QMR Webber, GF Albery, DR Farine… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial and social behaviour are fundamental aspects of an animal's biology, and their
social and spatial environments are indelibly linked through mutual causes and shared …

Conducting social network analysis with animal telemetry data: applications and methods using spatsoc

AL Robitaille, QMR Webber, EV Wal - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
We present spatsoc : an R package for conducting social network analysis with animal
telemetry data. Animal social network analysis is a method for measuring relationships between …

Social network characteristics and predicted pathogen transmission in summer colonies of female big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)

QMR Webber, RM Brigham, AD Park, EH Gillam… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2016 - Springer
Host behavior can affect host-pathogen dynamics, and sociality is predicted to increase risk
of pathogen exposure. Many species minimize costs of parasitism by only aggregating …

What do caribou eat? A review of the literature on caribou diet

QMR Webber, KM Ferraro, JG Hendrix… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Historically, the study of caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1788)) diet has
been specific to herds and few comprehensive circumpolar analyses of Rangifer diet exist. …

Space use and social association in a gregarious ungulate: testing the conspecific attraction and resource dispersion hypotheses

M Peignier, QMR Webber, EL Koen… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Animals use a variety of proximate cues to assess habitat quality when resources vary
spatiotemporally. Two nonmutually exclusive strategies to assess habitat quality involve either …

Is less more? A commentary on the practice of 'metric hacking'in animal social network analysis

QMR Webber, DC Schneider, E Vander Wal - Animal Behaviour, 2020 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Quinn MR Webber a , David C. Schneider a b c , Eric … In
light of the rapid increase in animal social network studies (Webber & Vander Wal, 2019), our …

The ecology of individual differences empirically applied to space-use and movement tactics

QMR Webber, MP Laforge, M Bonar… - The American …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Movement provides a link between individual behavioral ecology and the spatial and
temporal variation in an individual’s landscape. Individual variation in movement traits is an …

Spatial variation of mercury bioaccumulation in bats of Canada linked to atmospheric mercury deposition

…, T Redford, A Simard, S Stamler, QMR Webber… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wildlife are exposed to neurotoxic mercury at locations distant from anthropogenic emission
sources because of long-range atmospheric transport of this metal. In this study, mercury …