ArticleEcology and evolution2021
Decline and fall: The causes of group failure in cooperatively breeding meerkats.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Positive Density Dependence Promotes Host Persistence in the Face of Infectious Disease.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival.Evolution letters · 2023Article
- Group augmentation underlies the evolution of complex sociality in the face of environmental instability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Decline and fall: The causes of group failure in cooperatively breeding meerkats.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Dominance loss and tenure maintenance in Kalahari meerkats.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
In many social vertebrates, variation in group persistence exerts an important effect on individual fitness and population demography. However, few studies have been able to investigate the failure of groups or the causes of the variation in their longevity. We use data from a long-term study of cooperatively breeding meerkats,
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