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Domarchive: A Century Of Published Dominance Data, Eli D. Strauss, Alex R. Decasien, Gabriela Galindo, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Daizaburo Shizuka, James P. Curley
Domarchive: A Century Of Published Dominance Data, Eli D. Strauss, Alex R. Decasien, Gabriela Galindo, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Daizaburo Shizuka, James P. Curley
School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
Dominance behaviours have been collected for many groups of animals since 1922 and serve as a foundation for research on social behaviour and social structure. Despite a wealth of data from the last century of research on dominance hierarchies, these data are only rarely used for comparative insight. Here, we aim to facilitate comparative studies of the structure and function of dominance hierarchies by compiling published dominance interaction datasets from the last 100 years of work. This compiled archive includes 436 datasets from 190 studies of 367 unique groups (mean group size 13.8, s.d. = 13.4) of 135 different species, …