ArticleeLife2014
Climate-mediated cooperation promotes niche expansion in burying beetles.
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- Ecological and social factors lead to variation in parental care between sexes in a burying beetle.Insect science · 2026Article
- Thermal Stress Has Size-Dependent but Not Sex-Specific Effects on Mortality in an Insect Model.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- The Evolutionary and Ecological Consequences of Cooperation.The American naturalist · 2026Review
- Cooperation and the evolution of bacterial niche breadth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Body Size Evolution in Burying Beetles (Staphylinidae: Silphinae:Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Burying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care.Insectes sociaux · 2025Review
- Anthropogenic impacts at the interface of animal spatial and social behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
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- Revisiting the ecology and evolution of burying beetle behavior (Staphylinidae: Silphinae).Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
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- Higher temperature variability in deforested mountain regions impacts the competitive advantage of nocturnal species.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Sex-specific influence of communal breeding experience on parenting performance and fitness in a burying beetle.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Cooperation and Lateral Forces: Moving Beyond Bottom-Up and Top-Down Drivers of Animal Population Dynamics.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Factors influencing scavenger guilds and scavenging efficiency in Southwestern Montana.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Desiccation limits recruitment in the pleometrotic desert seed-harvester antEcology and evolution · 2021Article
- Social rank modulates how environmental quality influences cooperation and conflict within animal societies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance.eLife · 2020Article
- Temperature stress induces mites to help their carrion beetle hosts by eliminating rival blowflies.eLife · 2020Article
- Locally-adapted reproductive photoperiodism determines population vulnerability to climate change in burying beetles.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Conflict within species determines the value of a mutualism between species.Evolution letters · 2019Article
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9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The ability to form cooperative societies may explain why humans and social insects have come to dominate the earth. Here we examine the ecological consequences of cooperation by quantifying the fitness of cooperative (large groups) and non-cooperative (small groups) phenotypes in burying beetles (Nicrophorus nepalensis) along an elevational and temperature gradient. We experimentally created large and small groups along the gradient and manipulated interspecific competition with flies by heating carcasses. We show that cooperative groups performed as thermal generalists with similarly high breeding success at all temperatures and elevations, whereas non-cooperative groups performed as thermal specialists with higher breeding success only at intermediate temperatures and elevations. Studying the ecological consequences of cooperation may not only help us to understand why so many species of social insects have conquered the earth, but also to determine how climate change will affect the success of these and other social species, including our own.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02440.001.
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