ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2024
Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2024. 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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- Territoriality modulates the coevolution of cooperative breeding and female song in songbirds.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
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- Non-breeding social behaviour as an investment in reducing future territoriality costs.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between-group interactions in primates.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Multi-level societies: different tasks at different social levels.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Plains Zebras Prioritize Foraging Without Sacrificing Social Bonds During a Severe Drought.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Cooperation may emerge from intrinsic factors such as social structure and extrinsic factors such as environmental conditions. Although these factors might reinforce or counteract each other, their interaction remains unexplored in animal populations. Studies on multilevel societies suggest a link between social structure, environmental conditions and individual investment in cooperative behaviours. These societies exhibit flexible social configurations, with stable groups that overlap and associate hierarchically. Structure can be seasonal, with upper-level units appearing only during specific seasons, and lower-level units persisting year-round. This offers an opportunity to investigate how cooperation relates to social structure and environmental conditions. Here, we study the seasonal multilevel society of superb fairy-wrens (
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