Overcoming the pitfalls of categorizing continuous variables in ecology, evolution and behaviour

RS Beltran, CE Tarwater - Proceedings B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many variables in biological research—from body size to life-history timing to environmental
characteristics—are measured continuously (eg body mass in kilograms) but analysed as …

Urban birds' tolerance towards humans was largely unaffected by COVID-19 shutdown-induced variation in human presence

P Mikula, M Bulla, DT Blumstein, Y Benedetti… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and respective shutdowns
dramatically altered human activities, potentially changing human pressures on urban …

Flight initiation distance and bird tolerance to humans in rural and urban habitats

A Nepali, HB Katuwal, S Kc… - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Urbanization induces homogenization and changes the behavioural patterns of various bird
species, thereby facilitating coexistence and prompting adaptations to disturbances in urban …

Captures do not affect escape response to humans in Alpine marmot

C Giari, L Corlatti, E Morocutti, I Storch… - Wildlife Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Capture and manipulation are an integral part of wildlife research and management. These
practices, however, can affect animals either directly or indirectly, and studies should …

Social security: Does social position influence flight initiation distance?

T Szulanski, CS Philson, K Uchida… - Behavioral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Specific social relationships that individuals have with others may modulate perceptions of
risk and explain variation in antipredator behavior. We asked whether and how yellow …

Gazing Strategies among Sentinels of a Cooperative Breeder Are Repeatable but Unrelated to Survival

G Beauchamp, S Barve - Biology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Animals can detect threats through their vigilance. Many studies indicate
that traits such as vigilance are repeatable among individuals over time suggesting …

[图书][B] Evolution of social position and structure–a multilevel selection perspective

CS Philson - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The extent the evolution of sociality was shaped by multilevel selection–a theoretical
framework for natural selection occurring at levels of biological organization other than the …

Urban birds' tolerance towards humans was largely unaffected by increased variation in human levels due to COVID-19 shutdowns

P Mikula, M Bulla, DT Blumstein, Y Benedetti, K Floigl… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic dramatically altered human
activities, and, during shutdowns. Here, we evaluated whether urban birds from five …

Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild

CS Philson, JGA Martin, DT Blumstein - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The degree to which phenotypes are shaped by multilevel selection-the theoretical
framework proposing natural selection occurs at more than one level of biological …