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  1. Article ; Online: On the evolution of social ties as an instrumental tool for resource competition in resource patch networks

    Chester Wai-Jen Liu / Sheng-Feng Shen / Wei-Chung Liu

    Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2021  Volume 18

    Abstract: Abstract Human is a highly cultural species with diversified skills and knowledge. In this paper, we examine whether the diversification of skills and knowledge can promote the emergence of social ties between individuals as means for acquiring resources. ...

    Abstract Abstract Human is a highly cultural species with diversified skills and knowledge. In this paper, we examine whether the diversification of skills and knowledge can promote the emergence of social ties between individuals as means for acquiring resources. Specifically, we construct a simulation model consisting of two types of actors—one who uses social ties to search for resources and one who does not—and allow them to compete for resources that are distributed in resource patch networks of varying structures. In a densely connected resource patch network, implying a setting with less diversified sets of skills and knowledge, model result demonstrates that social ties can be detrimental to those adopting it. In a sparsely connected network, implying a setting with more diversified sets of skills and knowledge, social-type strategy can outcompete solitary-type strategy. Furthermore, actors with a pure social-type strategy are always inferior to their solitary competitors, regardless the structure of the resource patch network. Our modeling framework is of a very fundamental nature, and its relevance to existing theories and the sociological implication of its results are discussed.
    Keywords History of scholarship and learning. The humanities ; AZ20-999 ; Social Sciences ; H
    Subject code 300
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Springer Nature
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  2. Article ; Online: Life histories determine divergent population trends for fishes under climate warming

    Hui-Yu Wang / Sheng-Feng Shen / Ying-Shiuan Chen / Yun-Kae Kiang / Mikko Heino

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 9

    Abstract: The ongoing increase of ocean temperatures could have major effects on fish populations. Here the authors model relationships between sea temperature and life history traits in over 300 species, showing that while warming overall accelerates life history ...

    Abstract The ongoing increase of ocean temperatures could have major effects on fish populations. Here the authors model relationships between sea temperature and life history traits in over 300 species, showing that while warming overall accelerates life history traits, changes in population growth depend on the fast–slow life-history continuum.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
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  3. Article ; Online: Life histories determine divergent population trends for fishes under climate warming

    Hui-Yu Wang / Sheng-Feng Shen / Ying-Shiuan Chen / Yun-Kae Kiang / Mikko Heino

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 9

    Abstract: The ongoing increase of ocean temperatures could have major effects on fish populations. Here the authors model relationships between sea temperature and life history traits in over 300 species, showing that while warming overall accelerates life history ...

    Abstract The ongoing increase of ocean temperatures could have major effects on fish populations. Here the authors model relationships between sea temperature and life history traits in over 300 species, showing that while warming overall accelerates life history traits, changes in population growth depend on the fast–slow life-history continuum.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
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  4. Article: Response to Qian et al. (2017): Daily and seasonal climate variations are both critical in the evolution of species’ elevational range size

    Chan, Wei‐Ping / I‐Ching Chen / Robert K. Colwell / Wei‐Chung Liu / Cho‐ying Huang / Sheng‐Feng Shen

    Journal of biogeography. 2018 Dec., v. 45, no. 12

    2018  

    Abstract: In their recent critique, Qian et al. stated that the results of structural equation modeling analysis (SEM) in Chan et al. were flawed. Here, we show that the source of the difference, in their reanalysis, is that Qian et al. did not follow the standard, ...

    Abstract In their recent critique, Qian et al. stated that the results of structural equation modeling analysis (SEM) in Chan et al. were flawed. Here, we show that the source of the difference, in their reanalysis, is that Qian et al. did not follow the standard, iterative strategy of SEM, which allows researchers to evaluate which model offers the best account of the data in both absolute and relative terms. Here, we provide step‐by‐step instructions to reproduce our published results. We address—and aim to resolve—Qian et al.'s concerns regarding SEM. Moreover, in our original paper, we used three distinct statistical methods—hierarchical partitioning, SEM and stationary bootstrap—to show that different temporal scales of environmental variability differentially impact the elevational range size (ERS) of species. We believe it is time to move on to probing the pressing issue of how and why climatic variability impacts ERS.
    Keywords climate ; models ; structural equation modeling
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2018-12
    Size p. 2832-2836.
    Publishing place John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
    Document type Article
    Note LETTER
    ZDB-ID 188963-1
    ISSN 0305-0270
    ISSN 0305-0270
    DOI 10.1111/jbi.13449
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  5. Article ; Online: Author Correction

    Hsiang-Yu Tsai / Dustin R. Rubenstein / Yu-Meng Fan / Tzu-Neng Yuan / Bo-Fei Chen / Yezhong Tang / I-Ching Chen / Sheng-Feng Shen

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    Locally-adapted reproductive photoperiodism determines population vulnerability to climate change in burying beetles

    2020  Volume 1

    Abstract: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

    Abstract An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
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  6. Article ; Online: Locally-adapted reproductive photoperiodism determines population vulnerability to climate change in burying beetles

    Hsiang-Yu Tsai / Dustin R. Rubenstein / Yu-Meng Fan / Tzu-Neng Yuan / Bo-Fei Chen / Yezhong Tang / I-Ching Chen / Sheng-Feng Shen

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 12

    Abstract: Understanding whether intraspecific trait variation results from local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity is crucial to predict species responses to climate change. Here the authors investigate geographically distinct burying beetle populations, showing ...

    Abstract Understanding whether intraspecific trait variation results from local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity is crucial to predict species responses to climate change. Here the authors investigate geographically distinct burying beetle populations, showing that photoperiodism is a locally adapted, not phenotypically plastic, trait.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
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  7. Article ; Online: Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance

    Hsiang-Yu Tsai / Dustin R Rubenstein / Bo-Fei Chen / Mark Liu / Shih-Fan Chan / De-Pei Chen / Syuan-Jyun Sun / Tzu-Neng Yuan / Sheng-Feng Shen

    eLife, Vol

    2020  Volume 9

    Abstract: Understanding how climate-mediated biotic interactions shape thermal niche width is critical in an era of global change. Yet, most previous work on thermal niches has ignored detailed mechanistic information about the relationship between temperature and ...

    Abstract Understanding how climate-mediated biotic interactions shape thermal niche width is critical in an era of global change. Yet, most previous work on thermal niches has ignored detailed mechanistic information about the relationship between temperature and organismal performance, which can be described by a thermal performance curve. Here, we develop a model that predicts the width of thermal performance curves will be narrower in the presence of interspecific competitors, causing a species’ optimal breeding temperature to diverge from that of its competitor. We test this prediction in the Asian burying beetle Nicrophorus nepalensis, confirming that the divergence in actual and optimal breeding temperatures is the result of competition with their primary competitor, blowflies. However, we further show that intraspecific cooperation enables beetles to outcompete blowflies by recovering their optimal breeding temperature. Ultimately, linking abiotic factors and biotic interactions on niche width will be critical for understanding species-specific responses to climate change.
    Keywords thermal niche ; burying beetles ; cooperation ; realized and fundamental niche ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 590
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
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  8. Article ; Online: Locally-adapted reproductive photoperiodism determines population vulnerability to climate change in burying beetles

    Hsiang-Yu Tsai / Dustin R. Rubenstein / Yu-Meng Fan / Tzu-Neng Yuan / Bo-Fei Chen / Yezhong Tang / I-Ching Chen / Sheng-Feng Shen

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 12

    Abstract: Understanding whether intraspecific trait variation results from local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity is crucial to predict species responses to climate change. Here the authors investigate geographically distinct burying beetle populations, showing ...

    Abstract Understanding whether intraspecific trait variation results from local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity is crucial to predict species responses to climate change. Here the authors investigate geographically distinct burying beetle populations, showing that photoperiodism is a locally adapted, not phenotypically plastic, trait.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
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  9. Article ; Online: Author Correction

    Hsiang-Yu Tsai / Dustin R. Rubenstein / Yu-Meng Fan / Tzu-Neng Yuan / Bo-Fei Chen / Yezhong Tang / I-Ching Chen / Sheng-Feng Shen

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    Locally-adapted reproductive photoperiodism determines population vulnerability to climate change in burying beetles

    2020  Volume 1

    Abstract: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

    Abstract An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
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  10. Article: Unity and disunity in the search for a unified reproductive skew theory

    Reeve, H. Kern / Sheng-Feng Shen

    Animal behaviour. 2013 June, v. 85, no. 6

    2013  

    Abstract: Sandra Vehrencamp's (1983)Animal Behaviour paper provided a rigorous mathematical foundation for understanding reproductive partitioning within animal societies by focusing on the limits to reproductive competition over reproductive shares among group ... ...

    Abstract Sandra Vehrencamp's (1983)Animal Behaviour paper provided a rigorous mathematical foundation for understanding reproductive partitioning within animal societies by focusing on the limits to reproductive competition over reproductive shares among group members. The central idea is that the degree of inequity in reproductive shares is limited by the option of group members to leave the group and reproduce elsewhere. This central idea has been retained in extensions of her model, and unification of these extensions with rival models has been developed to accommodate new data and alternative starting assumptions. Although some criticism has been directed towards skew theory, as presented both in the original Vehrencamp model and in subsequent syntheses, we show that many of these criticisms have been misguided. Synthetic skew theory, with Vehrencamp’s model as its cornerstone, stands as our most general and complete, yet still largely untested, framework for understanding the evolutionary forces shaping the evolution of reproductive partitioning in animal societies.
    Keywords animal behavior ; animals ; evolution ; models
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2013-06
    Size p. 1137-1144.
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 281-1
    ISSN 0003-3472
    ISSN 0003-3472
    DOI 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.04.007
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