Untangling the contribution of active and passive group augmentation benefits to the multilevel selection of altruism using a video game

J Céré, CD Kelly, PO Montiglio - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2024 - Springer
The group augmentation hypothesis states that individuals gain benefits by increasing group
size and is rarely studied because it often overlaps with other evolutionary mechanisms like …

Multiple environmental stressors affect predation pressure in a tropical freshwater system

C Zanghi, IL Penry-Williams, MJ Genner… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Environmental change can alter predator-prey dynamics. However, studying predators in the
context of co-occurring environmental stressors remains rare, especially under field …

Social interactions generate complex selection patterns in virtual worlds

F Santostefano, M Fraser Franco… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the influence of social interactions on individual fitness is key to improving
our predictions of phenotypic evolution. However, we often overlook the different …

Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the visual constraint of turbidity for predators

C Zanghi, J Troscianko, CC Ioannou - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Changes in environmental conditions impact predator-prey interactions by altering
behaviour through sensory and non-sensory pathways. Elevated water temperature and …

Multiplayer videogames to analyze behavior during ecological interactions

PO Montiglio, MF Franco, F Santostefano - 2025 - ecoevorxiv.org
Behavior shapes population and community dynamics through feedbacks with habitat
configuration and interaction networks. Work on this interplay includes longitudinal surveys …