Unfamiliarity generates costly aggression in interspecific avian dominance hierarchies.

ABSTRACT: Dominance hierarchies often form between species, especially at common feeding locations. Yet, relative to work focused on the factors that maintain stable dominance hierarchies within species, large-scale analyses of interspecific dominance hierarchies have been comparatively rare. Given that interspecific behavioral interference mediates access to resources, these dominance hierarchies likely play an important and understudied role in community assembly and behavioral evolution. To test alternative hypotheses about the formation and maintenance of interspecific dominance hierarchies, we employ an large, participatory science generated dataset of displacements observed at feeders in North America in the non-breeding season. Consistent with the hypothesis that agonistic interference can be

SUBMITTER: Leighton GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10771497 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature