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ArticleRoyal Society open science2025

Social information use increases with decreasing winter temperature in a passerine bird.

Emil Isaksson, Jan J Wijmenga, Alexis Chaine, Roslyn Dakin, Julien G A Martin, Kimberley J Mathot

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Emil IsakssonDepartment of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1075-7595
Jan J WijmengaDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3817-2153
Alexis ChaineStation d'Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale du CNRS (UAR2029), 09200 Moulis, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3346-551X
Roslyn DakinDepartment of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3140-3975
Julien G A MartinDepartment of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7726-6809
Kimberley J MathotDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2021-1369

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Foragers can gain knowledge of profitable foraging opportunities either by sampling the environment directly (asocial information) or from congeners (social information). The relative benefit of using social information over asocial information is context-specific, and social information use is expected to be particularly beneficial when the costs of acquiring asocial information are high, for example, due to high risk of starvation if asocial information fails. We investigated the plasticity of social information use in an overwintering population of black-capped chickadees (

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cost of learningharsh environmentnetwork-based diffusion analysisplasticitysocial learningstarvation risk

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PMID40421004
PMCPMC12105792

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