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' …

Can convergence in mixed-species flocks lead to evolutionary divergence? Evidence for and methods to test this hypothesis

RT Kimball, EL Braun, Y Liu, L Zhou… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
One of the most fundamental goals of modern biology is to achieve a deep understanding of
the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. It has been observed that in some mixed-species …

Social information on fear and food drives animal grou** and fitness

MA Gil, Z Emberts, H Jones… - The American …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Empirical studies in select systems suggest that social information—the incidental or
deliberate information produced by animals and available to other animals—can …

Response of core microbial consortia to chronic hydrocarbon contaminations in coastal sediment habitats

M Jeanbille, J Gury, R Duran, J Tronczynski… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Traditionally, microbial surveys investigating the effect of chronic anthropogenic pressure
such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contaminations consider just the alpha and beta …

Mixed-species bird flocks re-assemble interspecific associations across an elevational gradient

Y Shen, M Holyoak, E Goodale… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding how non-trophic social systems respond to environmental gradients is still a
challenge in animal ecology, particularly in comparing changes in species composition to …

Interspecific sociality alters the colonization and extinction rates of birds on subtropical reservoir islands

AE Martínez, X Si, L Zhou, D Zeng… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Island biogeography theory has proved a robust approach to predicting island biodiversity
on the assumption of species equivalency. However, species differ in their grou** …