COLLECTIVE AGGRESSIVENESS LIMITS COLONY PERSISTENCE IN HIGH BUT NOT LOW ELEVATION SITES IN AMAZONIAN SOCIAL SPIDERS
J. L. Lichtenstein, D. N. Fisher, B. McEwen, D. T. Nondorf, E. Calvache, C. Schmitz, J. Elasser, J. N. Pruitt
The paper examines how collective aggressiveness in social spider colonies affects their persistence at different elevation sites in the Amazon, finding that less aggressive colonies persist better at high elevations.
bioRxiv · Apr 16, 2019Evolutionary Biology