Across animal societies, individuals invest time and energy in social interactions. The social landscape that emerges from these interactions can then generate barriers that limit the ability of individuals to disperse to, and reproduce in, groups or populations. Therefore, social barriers can contribute to the difference between the physical capacity for movement through the habitat and subsequent gene flow. We call this contributing effect 'social resistance'. We propose that social resistance can act as an agent of selection on key life-history strategies and promote the evolution of social strategies that facilitate effective dispersal. By linking landscape genetics and social behaviour, the social resistance hypothesis generates predictions integrating dispersal, connectivity, and life-history evolution.

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生态景观中的社会障碍：社会阻力假说。

在动物社会中，个人在社交互动中投入时间和精力。然后，从这些互动中产生的社会景观会产生障碍，限制个人分散到群体或群体中并在群体或群体中繁殖的能力。因此，社会障碍可能导致通过栖息地的物理能力与随后的基因流动之间的差异。我们将这种贡献效应称为“社会阻力”。我们提出，社会抵抗可以作为关键生活史策略的选择代理，并促进促进有效分散的社会策略的演变。通过将景观遗传学和社会行为联系起来，社会阻力假说产生了综合分散、连通性和生活史进化的预测。