Mixed company: a framework for understanding the composition and organization of mixed‐species animal groups

E Goodale, H Sridhar, KE Sieving, P Bangal… - Biological …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mixed‐species animal groups (MSGs) are widely acknowledged to increase predator
avoidance and foraging efficiency, among other benefits, and thereby increase participants' …

Mobbing in animals: A thorough review and proposed future directions

NV Carlson, M Griesser - Advances in the Study of Behavior, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Mobbing is an important anti-predator behavior where prey harass and attack a predator to
lower the immediate and long-term risk posed by it, warn others, and communicate about the …

A classification scheme for mixed-species bird flocks

GG Mangini, CL Rutt, H Sridhar… - … of the Royal …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The literature on mixed-species flocks references a wide variety of bird associations. These
studies, however, have used an array of unstructured characteristics to describe flocks …

Expanding the concept of social behavior to interspecific interactions

RF Oliveira, R Bshary - Ethology, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
In pretty much any species, an individual's survival and reproduction depends crucially on
the outcome of interactions with other individuals. Key interactions may take place between …

The structure of mixed-species bird flocks, and their response to anthropogenic disturbance, with special reference to East Asia

E Goodale, P Ding, X Liu, A Martínez, X Si, M Walters… - Avian Research, 2015‏ - Springer
Mixed-species flocks of birds are distributed world-wide and can be especially dominant in
temperate forests during the non-breeding season and in tropical rainforests year-round. We …

Using intra-flock association patterns to understand why birds participate in mixed-species foraging flocks in terrestrial habitats

H Sridhar, K Shanker - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2014‏ - Springer
Bird species are hypothesized to join mixed-species flocks (flocks hereon) either for direct
foraging or anti-predation-related benefits. In this study, conducted in a tropical evergreen …

Using social network analysis of mixed-species groups in African savannah herbivores to assess how community structure responds to environmental change

K Meise, DW Franks… - … Transactions of the …, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The dynamics of wildlife populations often depend heavily on interspecific interactions and
understanding the underlying principles can be an important step in designing conservation …

Benefits of foraging in mixed‐species flocks depend on species role and foraging strategy

GG Mangini, FA Gandoy, JI Areta, PG Blendinger - Ibis, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mixed‐species flocks of birds involve species with different roles and foraging strategies and
are ubiquitous in forest environments. Species roles can broadly be categorized into leaders …

Positive interspecific associations consistent with social information use shape juvenile fish assemblages

CR Haak, FKC Hui, GW Cowles, AJ Danylchuk - Ecology, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Social information obtained from heterospecifics can enhance individual fitness by reducing
environmental uncertainty, making it an important driver of mixed‐species grou** …

Structure-dynamic relationship of plant–insect networks along a primary succession gradient on a glacier foreland

G Losapio, F Jordán, M Caccianiga, M Gobbi - Ecological Modelling, 2015‏ - Elsevier
There is a growing interest in understanding the structure–dynamic relationship of
ecological networks. Ecological network changes along primary successions are poorly …