Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29070720›Full record

ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017

Mortality risk and social network position in resident killer whales: sex differences and the importance of resource abundance.

S Ellis, D W Franks, S Nattrass, M A Cant, M N Weiss, D Giles, K C Balcomb, D P Croft

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Network indicators of cultural resilience to anthropogenic removals in animal societies.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Article
  9. The ecology of ageing in wild societies: linking age structure and social behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
    Review
  10. Article
  11. Social bond dynamics and the evolution of helping.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
    Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Review
  15. Review
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

S EllisCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK s.ellis@exeter.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9019-6040
D W FranksDepartment of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5GE, UK.
S NattrassDepartment of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5GE, UK.
M A CantCentre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1530-3077
M N WeissCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.
D GilesCenter for Whale Research, 355 Smugglers Cove Road, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA.
K C BalcombCenter for Whale Research, 355 Smugglers Cove Road, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA.
D P CroftCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An individual's ecological environment affects their mortality risk, which in turn has fundamental consequences for life-history evolution. In many species, social relationships are likely to be an important component of an individual's environment, and therefore their mortality risk. Here, we examine the relationship between social position and mortality risk in resident killer whales (

Indexed as

MortalitySocial DominanceAnimalsBritish ColumbiaFemaleMalePopulation DynamicsRiskSex FactorsWashingtonWhale, Killerfitnesslife historyOrcinus orcasocialitysocial networkssurvival analysis

Identifiers

PMID29070720
PMCPMC5666093

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.