Publications by authors named "Andy J Boyce"
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- * Using a large dataset from camera traps across 17 countries, the researchers applied mixed-effects models to analyze the probability of these animals being detected in groups, revealing significant variability in group formation even among species traditionally thought to be solitary.
- * The findings suggest that resource distribution (like patchiness) and external conditions (such as winter severity) influence whether these animals aggregate, underscoring the need to better understand the complexities of social behavior in solitary species for a comprehensive view of their ecology and social interactions.
Survival rates vary dramatically among species and predictably across latitudes, but causes of this variation are unclear. The rate-of-living hypothesis posits that physiological damage from metabolism causes species with faster metabolic rates to exhibit lower survival rates. However, whether increased survival commonly observed in tropical and south temperate latitudes is associated with slower metabolic rate remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParental behavior and effort vary extensively among species. Life-history theory suggests that age-specific mortality could cause this interspecific variation, but past tests have focused on fecundity as the measure of parental effort. Fecundity can cause costs of reproduction that confuse whether mortality is the cause or the consequence of parental effort.
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