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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020

Social rank modulates how environmental quality influences cooperation and conflict within animal societies.

Mark Liu, Bo-Fei Chen, Dustin R Rubenstein, Sheng-Feng Shen

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The ecology of wealth inequality in animal societies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022
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  3. Pathogen Threat and In-group Cooperation.Frontiers in psychology · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Mark LiuBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.
Bo-Fei ChenBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.
Dustin R RubensteinDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Sheng-Feng ShenBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although dominance hierarchies occur in most societies, our understanding of how these power structures influence individual investment in cooperative and competitive behaviours remains elusive. Both conflict and cooperation in animal societies are often environmentally regulated, yet how individuals alter their cooperative and competitive investments as environmental quality changes remain unclear. Using game theoretic modelling, we predict that individuals of all ranks will invest more in cooperation and less in social conflict in harsh environments than individuals of the same ranks in benign environments. Counterintuitively, low-ranking subordinates should increase their investment in cooperation proportionally more than high-ranking dominants, suggesting that subordinates contribute relatively more when facing environmental challenges. We then test and confirm these predictions experimentally using the Asian burying beetle

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Behavior, AnimalCooperative BehaviorSocial DominanceAnimalsCompetitive Behaviorcollective actionenvironmental qualityinterspecific competitionNicrophorus spp.social evolution

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PMID32993473
PMCPMC7542804

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