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Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey
Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 94, Issue 5, Page 848-862, May 2025.We show that the superb lyrebird, an ecosystem engineer, undertakes a unique form of resource farming through its foraging activity. By modulating litter and soil habitats on the forest floor, lyrebirds create conditions conducive to their invertebrate prey, increasing richness and biomass and resulting in a remarkable farming feedback loop.
Alex C. Maisey +2 more
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Are there some things it is morally wrong to make-believe? An examination of imaginative resistance as a measure of the morality of pretence [PDF]
, 2015 This paper discusses the morality of make-believing deviant moral truths within the context of fictional narratives (e.g. make-believing that the killing of innocent people is a morally good thing to do).
Young, G
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Ecology Letters, Volume 28, Issue 5, May 2025.Connectivity is widely assumed to benefit biodiversity, but this has not been extensively quantified across multiple taxa and landscapes. Using species occurrence records from citizen science for over 800 broadleaf‐associated species in the UK, we found an overall positive effect of woodland connectivity, despite large between‐species variance.
Charles A. Cunningham +8 more
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 2, April–June 2025.When comparing the diets of native and invasive predator species in semi‐arid Australia, we found that native apex dingoes primarily consume large kangaroos, wallabies and emus, whereas invasive cats and foxes consume smaller prey groups, including 8–9 times the volume of threatened and vulnerable native mammals.
Rachel T. Mason +4 more
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Uncharted Territory: Delving into Unexplored Knowledge to Curb Ableism in Academia
British Journal of Learning Disabilities, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 211-220, March 2025.ABSTRACT Introduction Language can reflect bias: an ‘intellectual’ disability means for many people that you cannot be an academic knowledge producer; a ‘learning’ disability means that your education will be hampered. Like language definitions, academic practices can reflect societal biases.
Alice Schippers +2 more
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Arms or Legs: Isomorphic Dutch Auctions and Centipede Games [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Centipede games and Dutch auctions provide important instances in which game theory fails empirically. The reasons for these empirical failures are not well understood. Standard centipede games and Dutch auctions differ from each other in terms of their Institutional Format (IF), Dynamic Structure (DS), and Information Environment (IE).
Cox, James, James, Duncan
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Public Administration Review, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 308-325, March/April 2025.Abstract It is not easy to secure and sustain efficient interorganizational collaboration in hierarchically demarcated and functionally specialized public sectors. This article investigates whether and how public leaders can motivate and catalyze their own employees to engage in behaviors that foster and support collaboration across organizational ...
Anders Barslund Grøn
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An Experimental Study of the Centipede Game [PDF]
, 1991 We report on an experiment in which individuals play a version of the centipede game. In this game, two players alternately get a chance to take the larger portion of a continually escalating pile of money. As soon as one person takes, the game ends with
McKelvey, Richard D., Palfrey, Thomas R.
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Developmental Dynamics, Volume 254, Issue 2, Page 189-204, February 2025.Abstract Background The fat‐tailed dunnart is a small dasyurid marsupial which is emerging as a robust laboratory model for conservation, developmental, and reproductive biology research. While these marsupials present extremely valuable models, housing non‐domesticated animals in captivity can present a wide range of potential stressors for the ...
Emily L. Scicluna +7 more
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Can tournaments induce rational play in the centipede game? Exploring dominance vs. strategic uncertainty [PDF]
We compare behavior in a one-shot Centipede game across several payoff structures including nonlinear payoff tournaments. Assuming Nash to be optimal, results suggest nonlinear tournament payoffs based on overall relative rewards are not sufficient to ...
Andrew J Moravec +2 more
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