Publications by authors named "M Cauchoix"
Measures of cognitive performance, derived from psychometric tasks, have yielded important insights into the factors governing cognitive variation. However, concerns remain over the robustness of these measures, which may be susceptible to non-cognitive factors such as motivation and persistence. Efforts to quantify short-term repeatability of cognitive performance have gone some way to address this, but crucially the long-term repeatability of cognitive performance has been largely overlooked.
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- * Research involving citizen scientists revealed that increased impervious surfaces (like concrete) around pedunculate oaks led to a decrease in insect damage, while more forest cover increased herbivory from chewing insects.
- * Local canopy cover can mitigate the negative effects of impervious surfaces on certain herbivores, indicating that urban habitat characteristics play a crucial role in shaping plant-insect interactions.
Cooperation plays a key role in the development of advanced societies and can be stabilized through shared genes (kinship) or reciprocation. In humans, cooperation among kin occurs more readily than cooperation among non-kin. In many organisms, cooperation can shift with age (e.
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- * The SPI-Birds Network and Database was established to connect researchers and data on long-term studies of individually marked birds, currently housing data on nearly 1.5 million birds across 80 populations.
- * SPI-Birds promotes data sharing, prevents data loss, and enhances collaboration through community-developed standards and a decentralized approach that allows research groups to maintain control over their data.
Understanding the ecology and evolution of parasites is contingent on identifying the selection pressures they face across their infection landscape. Such a task is made challenging by the fact that these pressures will likely vary across time and space, as a result of seasonal and geographical differences in host susceptibility or transmission opportunities. Avian haemosporidian blood parasites are capable of infecting multiple co-occurring hosts within their ranges, yet whether their distribution across time and space varies similarly in their different host species remains unclear.
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