New NIOO publication: Effect of ecological and anthropogenic factors on #grouping patterns in African #lions across #Kenya. #behavior #biodiversity #groupsize #sociality #fissionfusion
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10982
New NIOO publication: Effect of ecological and anthropogenic factors on #grouping patterns in African #lions across #Kenya. #behavior #biodiversity #groupsize #sociality #fissionfusion
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10982
Puzzlingly, some #animal groups decrease in size when #resources become scarce, while other #groups get larger. Kao et al. identified 6 unique benefits of #sociality and show how shifts in #groupSize under #scarcity depend
on which is the dominant benefit for that #species.
Read for free on the ahead of print page: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725426
More examples of previous work (either more technical or closer to the social sciences):
#GroupSize effects in #CollectiveAction
problems:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2020.02.003
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519318303746
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899825616300641
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519315005226
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01504.x
#Multiplayer #Games in #SpatiallyStructured populations
:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06063-9
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005059
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0881
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519315003185