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The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape within‐ and between‐species social interactions. Given the role of social behaviour in reproductive fitness and survival, understanding how social
Avery L. Maune, Barbara A. Caspers, Isabel Damas‐Moreira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decision‐making is a central function of adaptive behaviour in biological agents. However, strategies for adaptive decision‐making can vary substantially across species. Here, we aim to extend the comparative scope of decision‐making analyses to phylogenetically diverse organisms.
Liberty Severs, Qiuran Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Saccadic Momentum and Facilitation of Return Saccades Contribute to an Optimal Foraging Strategy

PLoS Comput. Biol., 2013
The interest in saccadic IOR is funneled by the hypothesis that it serves a clear functional purpose in the selection of fixation points: the facilitation of foraging. In this study, we arrive at a different interpretation of saccadic IOR. First, we find
N. Wilming, S. Harst, Nico M. Schmidt, P. König   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The spread of non‐native species

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global redistribution of species through human agency is one of the defining ecological signatures of the Anthropocene, with biological invasions reshaping biodiversity patterns, ecosystem processes and services, and species interactions globally.
Phillip J. Haubrock, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Irene Martín‐Forés, Stelios Katsanevakis, Ronaldo Sousa, Ismael Soto, Andy J. Green, Antonín Kouba, Teun Everts, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Nadège Belouard, Cang Hui, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, Margaux Boeraeve, Franz Essl, J. Robert Britton   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

Near-Optimal Foraging in the Pacific Cicada Killer Sphecius convallis Patton (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)

Insects, 2012
This study evaluated foraging effectiveness of Pacific cicada killers (Sphecius convallis) by comparing observed prey loads to that predicted by an optimality model. Female S.
Joseph R. Coelho, Charles W. Holliday, Jon M. Hastings   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimális éves viselkedési modellek: út a fiziológiától a populációkig? = Optimal annual routines: a path from physiology to populations? [PDF]

, 2009
A pályázat fő célja annak kiderítése volt, hogy a különböző állapotváltozók hogyan befolyásolják az optimális viselkedést, speciálisan a hogyan befolyásolják a fő életmenet események időzítését az éves cikluson belül. E cél elérése érdekében több modellt
Alasdair, I. Houston, Barta, Zoltán, McNamara, John M., Pap, Péter László   +3 more
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Compact Bacterial Foraging Optimization

, 2012
Compact algorithms are Estimation of Distribution Algorithms which mimic the behavior of population-based algorithms by means of a probabilistic representation of the population of candidate solutions. Compared to an actual population, a probabilistic model requires a much smaller memory, which allows algorithms with limited memory footprint.
Iacca, Giovanni, Neri, Ferrante, Mininno, Ernesto   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito, Judith M. Burkart, Carel van Schaik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hunting strategies, wild meat preferences and perceptions of wildlife conservation in Nagaland, India

Oryx
Wild meat hunting is one of the primary threats to biodiversity, and it is important to understand the drivers of hunting by communities residing within biodiverse areas, the methods they employ and their preferences for particular wild meat types.
Satem Longchar, Manjari Roy, Qamar Qureshi, Matt W. Hayward   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source