Search results for "Information use"
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Un museo de ciencia accesible a la sociedad. Contribución e impacto
2022
El conocimiento es objeto de investigación y discusión; la ciudadanía lo utiliza de manera crítica transformándolo en herramientas que les permiten mejorar su vida a nivel individual y colectivo. Las diferencias sociales y jerárquicas que históricamente determinaban el acceso al capital formativo se han difuminado en el último siglo, y cada vez más se consume una gran variedad de formas de cultura, independientemente del nivel social, económico o cultural. Entre los centros culturales más visitados por los y las ciudadanas encontramos los museos. Estos núcleos de conocimiento trabajan para que su finalidad comunicativa esté en sintonía con los contenidos que ofrecen y tratan de dar respuest…
Do large‐scale associations in birds imply biotic interactions or environmental filtering?
2023
Aim There has been a wide interest in the effect of biotic interactions on species' occurrences and abundances at large spatial scales, coupled with a vast development of the statistical methods to study them. Still, evidence for whether the effects of within-trophic-level biotic interactions (e.g. competition and heterospecific attraction) are discernible beyond local scales remains inconsistent. Here, we present a novel hypothesis-testing framework based on joint dynamic species distribution models and functional trait similarity to dissect between environmental filtering and biotic interactions. Location France and Finland. Taxon Birds. Methods We estimated species-to-species association…
Is it interspecific information use or aggression between putative competitors that steers the selection of nest-site characteristics? A reply to Sla…
2018
A growing number of studies have demonstrated that heterospecific individuals with overlapping resource needs – putative competitors – can provide information to each other that improves the outcomes of decisions. Our studies using cavity nesting resident tits (information provider) and migratory flycatchers (Ficedula spp., information user) have shown that selective interspecific information use (SIIU) can result in flycatchers copying and rejecting the apparent nest-site feature preferences of tits, depending on a perceivable fitness correlate (clutch size) of the tits. ese, and other results on the interspecific information use, challenge the predictions of traditional theory of species coexi…
Observed Fitness May Affect Niche Overlap in Competing Species via Selective Social Information Use
2013
Social information transmission is important because it enables horizontal spread of behaviors, not only between conspecifics but also between individuals of different species. Because interspecific social information use is expected to take place among species with similar resource needs, it may have major consequences for the emergence of local adaptations, resource sharing, and community organization. Social information use is expected to be selective, but the conditions promoting it in an interspecific context are not well known. Here, we experimentally test whether pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) use the clutch size of great tits (Parus major) in determining the quality of the ob…