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Author | Shettleworth, S.J. | ||||
Title | Cognitive ecology: field or label? | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2000 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Trends. Ecol. Evol |
Volume | 15 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 161 |
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Address | Depts of Psychology and Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3 | ||||
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ISSN | 0169-5347 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 373 | ||
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Author | Czaran, T. | ||||
Title | Game theory and evolutionary ecology: Evolutionary Games & Population Dynamics by J. Hofbauer and K. Sigmund, and Game Theory & Animal Behaviour, edited by L.A. Dugatkin and H.K. Reeve | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1999 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Trends. Ecol. Evol |
Volume | 14 | Issue | 6 | Pages | 246-247 |
Keywords | Game theory; Evolutionary ecology; Population dynamics; Ethology | ||||
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Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 485 | ||
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Author | List, C. | ||||
Title | Democracy in animal groups: a political science perspective | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2004 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution (Personal Edition) | Abbreviated Journal | Trends Ecol Evol |
Volume | 19 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 168-169 |
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5137 | ||
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Author | Purvis, A. | ||||
Title | The h index: playing the numbers game | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2006 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Trends. Ecol. Evol |
Volume | 21 | Issue | 8 | Pages | 422-422 |
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Abstract | Article Outline References The ‘h index’ was developed recently as a measure of research performance [1]: a researcher's h is the number of his or her papers that have been cited at least h times. In their thoughtful critique of the index, Kelly and Jennions [2] point out many ways in which h is no better than ‘traditional’ bibliometrics, such as total citation counts. However, there is one way in which, for researchers, it could be very much better, especially if (as Hirsch suggests [1]) it is to inform hiring and promotion decisions. The skewed nature of the distribution of citations among publications means that most researchers have several papers that nearly but not quite count. Consequently, h can be distorted much more easily than can total citation count just by finding a subtle way to cite one's own papers that are ‘bubbling under’. Incidentally, bats show broadly the same life-history allometries as other mammalian clades [3]. |
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5046 | ||
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Author | Healy,S.; Braithwaite, V | ||||
Title | Cognitive ecology: a field of substance? | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2000 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Trends. Ecol. Evol |
Volume | 15 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 22-26 |
Keywords | Cognitive ecology; Neuroethology; Cognition; Ecology; Evolution; Orientation mechanisms | ||||
Abstract | In 1993, Les Real invented the label 'cognitive ecology'. This label was intended for work that brought cognitive science and behavioural ecology together. Real's article stressed the importance of such an approach to the understanding of behaviour. At the end of a decade in which more interdisciplinary work on behaviour has been seen than for many years, it is time to assess whether cognitive ecology is a label describing an active field. | ||||
Address | Division of Biological Sciences, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UK EH9 3JT | ||||
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Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 837 | ||
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Author | Noë, R.; Hammerstein, P. | ||||
Title | Biological markets | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1995 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Trends. Ecol. Evol |
Volume | 10 | Issue | 8 | Pages | 336-339 |
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Abstract | In biological markets, two classes of traders exchange commodities to their mutual benefit. Characteristics of markets are: competition within trader classes by contest or outbidding; preference for partners offering the highest value; and conflicts over the exchange value of commodities. Biological markets are currently studied under at least three different headings: sexual selection, intraspecific cooperation and interspecific mutualism. The time is ripe for the development of game theoretic models that describe the common core of biological markets and integrate existing knowledge from the separate fields. | ||||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4993 | ||
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Author | Creel, S. | ||||
Title | Social dominance and stress hormones | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2001 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Trends. Ecol. Evol |
Volume | 16 | Issue | 9 | Pages | 491-497 |
Keywords | Dominance; rank; stress; glucocorticoids; cooperative breeding; sociality; behavioural endocrinology; mammals | ||||
Abstract | In most cooperatively breeding birds and mammals, reproductive rates are lower for social subordinates than for dominants, and it is common for reproduction in subordinates to be completely suppressed. Early research conducted in captivity showed that losing fights can increase glucocorticoid (GC) secretion, a general response to stress. Because GCs can suppress reproduction, it has been widely argued that chronic stress might underlie reproductive suppression of social subordinates in cooperative breeders. Contradicting this hypothesis, recent studies of cooperative breeders in the wild show that dominant individuals have elevated GCs more often than do subordinates. The findings that elevated GCs can be a consequence of subordination or a cost of dominance complicate the conventional view of social stress, with broad ramifications for the evolution of dominance and reproductive suppression. | ||||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4072 | ||
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Author | Conradt, L.; Roper, T.J. | ||||
Title | Consensus decision making in animals | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2005 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution (Personal Edition) | Abbreviated Journal | Trends Ecol Evol |
Volume | 20 | Issue | 8 | Pages | 449-456 |
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Abstract | Individual animals routinely face decisions that are crucial to their fitness. In social species, however, many of these decisions need to be made jointly with other group members because the group will split apart unless a consensus is reached. Here, we review empirical and theoretical studies of consensus decision making, and place them in a coherent framework. In particular, we classify consensus decisions according to the degree to which they involve conflict of interest between group members, and whether they involve either local or global communication; we ask, for different categories of consensus decision, who makes the decision, what are the underlying mechanisms, and what are the functional consequences. We conclude that consensus decision making is common in non-human animals, and that cooperation between group members in the decision-making process is likely to be the norm, even when the decision involves significant conflict of interest. | ||||
Address | Department of Biology and Environmental Science, John Maynard Smith Building, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, BN1 9QG. L.Conradt@sussex.ac.uk | ||||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4802 | ||
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Author | Tibbetts, E.A.; Dale, J. | ||||
Title | Individual recognition: it is good to be different | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2007 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Trends. Ecol. Evol |
Volume | 22 | Issue | 10 | Pages | 529-537 |
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Abstract | Individual recognition (IR) behavior has been widely studied, uncovering spectacular recognition abilities across a range of taxa and modalities. Most studies of IR focus on the recognizer (receiver). These studies typically explore whether a species is capable of IR, the cues that are used for recognition and the specializations that receivers use to facilitate recognition. However, relatively little research has explored the other half of the communication equation: the individual being recognized (signaler). Provided there is a benefit to being accurately identified, signalers are expected to actively broadcast their identity with distinctive cues. Considering the prevalence of IR, there are probably widespread benefits associated with distinctiveness. As a result, selection for traits that reveal individual identity might represent an important and underappreciated selective force contributing to the evolution and maintenance of genetic polymorphisms. | ||||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4572 | ||
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Author | Dall, S.R.X.; Giraldeau, L.-A.; Olsson, O.; McNamara, J.M.; Stephens, D.W. | ||||
Title | Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2005 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution (Personal Edition) | Abbreviated Journal | Trends Ecol Evol |
Volume | 20 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 187-193 |
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Abstract | Information is a crucial currency for animals from both a behavioural and evolutionary perspective. Adaptive behaviour relies upon accurate estimation of relevant ecological parameters; the better informed an individual, the better it can develop and adjust its behaviour to meet the demands of a variable world. Here, we focus on the burgeoning interest in the impact of ecological uncertainty on adaptation, and the means by which it can be reduced by gathering information, from both 'passive' and 'responsive' sources. Our overview demonstrates the value of adopting an explicitly informational approach, and highlights the components that one needs to develop useful approaches to studying information use by animals. We propose a quantitative framework, based on statistical decision theory, for analysing animal information use in evolutionary ecology. Our purpose is to promote an integrative approach to studying information use by animals, which is itself integral to adaptive animal behaviour and organismal biology. | ||||
Address | Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter in Cornwall, Tremough Campus, Penryn, UK, TR10 9EZ. sashadall@iname.com | ||||
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