Assessing Reliability for Quantifying Social Interactions among Crayfish

Authors

• Lee Ann Smith, Benedictine University
• Jeremy Nadolski, Benedictine University
• Grace Jacobs, University of Kentucky
• Jodi M. Ogle, University of Kentucky
• Madhusudan P. Srinivasan, University of KentuckyFollow
• Hannah N. Tanner, University of Kentucky
• Elizabeth R. Steele, University of Kentucky
• Nicole T. Marguerite, Vanderbilt University
• Sonya Bierbower, United States Military Academy at West Point
• Slane Steen, University of Kentucky
• Isaac Easterling, Eastern Kentucky University
• Abigail Greenhalgh, Oregon State University
• Cecilia Pankau, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Shelby McCubbin, University of Kentucky College of MedicineFollow
• Brad Behymer, Eastern Kentucky University
• Robin L. Cooper, University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

Animal behavior is a useful way to evaluate the environment and can be a predictive tool to assess not only the effects of treatments in a laboratory setting, but also the status of ecological habitats. As invasive species of crayfish encroach on territories of native species, the social behaviors and interactions can be informative for ecological studies. For a wider and more impactful effect, training community scientists using a scoring system to record the social interactions of crayfish that includes both the level of aggression and intensity would provide useable data to monitor the environment. Amateur scientists with little training were fairly reliable in their average scoring of the crayfish and the maximum behavior score with an expert as well as among themselves. However, the number of interactions was not as a reliable metric to compare with the expert or just among the amateurs.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Notes/Citation Information

Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Lee Ann Smith et al.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1155/2024/8031535

Archival?

Archival

Repository Citation

Smith, Lee Ann; Nadolski, Jeremy; Jacobs, Grace; Ogle, Jodi M.; Srinivasan, Madhusudan P.; Tanner, Hannah N.; Steele, Elizabeth R.; Marguerite, Nicole T.; Bierbower, Sonya; Steen, Slane; Easterling, Isaac; Greenhalgh, Abigail; Pankau, Cecilia; McCubbin, Shelby; Behymer, Brad; and Cooper, Robin L., "Assessing Reliability for Quantifying Social Interactions among Crayfish" (2024). Psychology Faculty Publications. 342.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychology_facpub/342