Collective personalities: from individuals to groups, and back

Información del proyecto

GROUPIND

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 659106

DOI

10.3030/659106

Proyecto finalizado el 27 Septiembre 2017

Fecha de la firma de la CE 1 Abril 2015

Fecha de inicio 1 Octubre 2015

Fecha de finalización 2 Abril 2018

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 185 076,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 185 076,00

Coordinado por

UNIVERSITE PARIS 13
France

Objetivo

Many organisms, including humans, group together and perform collective actions such as birds forming coordinated flocks to evade predators, forage or roost. Some, as social insects, have evolved complex societies in which the unit of selection is not the individual, as in most vertebrates, but the colony. Yet, in both there is evidence of consistent behavioural variability among both individuals and groups. The study of collective behaviour - coordinated actions resulting in emergent properties at the group level - and the study of animal personality - between individual differences that are consistent over time and contexts - have progressed tremendously in the last two decades and are converging in their search for the link between individuality and collectivity, a fundamental and timely issue in biology. The GROUPIND project aims to investigate the relationship between individual personality and group personality by using ants and starlings as study organisms, both of which showing distinct collective behaviour and marked individual behavioural variability. The project will use a comparative approach to address the following objectives: (1) To characterize, also upon experimental manipulation, the composition of personalities in the group and understand how this relates to personality at the group level. Are group personalities an average of individual personalities within the group? Do they result from different distributions of individual personalities? Are there keystone individuals that exert a disproportionate influence on the group personality? (2) To understand how diversity of individual personalities contributes to decision making and to the ecological success at the group level, and how this would feed back at the individual level. By bridging two major fields of study, this project will shed new light on the ability of groups to function effectively, unravelling the consequences that personality differences can exert on social life and its evolution.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias naturales › ciencias biológicas › ecología
• ciencias agrícolas › agricultura, silvicultura y pesca › agricultura › cultivos industriales › forraje
• ciencias naturales › ciencias biológicas › zoología › entomología
• ciencias naturales › ciencias biológicas › ciencias biológicas del comportamiento › etología
• ciencias naturales › ciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexas › geografía física

Palabras clave

• Animal personality
• collective behaviour
• birds
• ants

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2014-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2014

Coordinador

UNIVERSITE PARIS 13

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 185 076,00
• Dirección: AVENUE JEAN-BAPTISTE CLEMENT 99 ; 93430 VILLETANEUSE ; Francia
• Región: Ile-de-France › Ile-de-France › Seine-Saint-Denis
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 185 076,00