Posted on

Press coverage of dominance hierarchy special issue

Mike Miller with UC Press wrote a nice overview of our new special issue on dominance hierarchies, published earlier this week.

Link to the article: https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/01/pecking-order–uc-biologist-explains-100-years-of-dominance-hierarchies.html

Unlocking the mysteries of the pecking order

UC biologist discusses 100 years of research in dominance hierarchies

By Michael Miller
 

Dominance hierarchies were first described in chickens a century ago by a Norwegian zoologist who coined the term “pecking order.”

… [Read full details]
Posted on

New paper! Dominance hierarchy data archive and R package

Eli Strauss, Dai Shizuka, James Curley, and I recently co-edited a special issue all about dominance hierarchies. For the issue, Eli led a new paper that compiles datasets on over 100 species for which dominance data have been published. Our team also built an R package to more easily manage these datasets (to make comparative analyses much easier) and to run basic dominance hierarchy summaries. … [Read full details]

Posted on

New special issue! 100 years of dominance hierarchies

Eli Strauss, Dai Shizuka, James Curley, and I recently co-edited a special issue all about dominance hierarchies. It was just published in Phil Trans B.

Eli led a nice introduction to the issue that integrates some classic quotes and thinking about dominance hierarchies with modern approaches to highlight new insights and connections with the foundations of the field. … [Read full details]