American Naturali๏ฌ · @ASNAmNat
1959 followers · 175 posts · Server ecoevo.socialPuzzlingly, 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
#animal #resources #groups #sociality #groupsize #scarcity #species
Jorge Peรฑa · @jorgeapenas
276 followers · 54 posts · Server ecoevo.socialMore examples of previous work (either more technical ๐งฎ or closer to the social sciences):
#groupsize ๐จโ๐ง๐จโ๐ง๐จโ๐ง effects in #collectiveaction โ 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 ๐ฒ in #spatially #structured populations ๐ ๐๏ธ:
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
#introduction #groupsize #collectiveaction #multiplayer #games #spatially #structured