Colony-level aggression escalates with the value of food resources
Abstract Background Theory predicts that the level of escalation in animal contests is associated with the value of the contested resource. This fundamental prediction has been empirically confirmed by studies of dyadic contests but has not been tested experimentally in the collective context of gro...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02117-x |