Using ternary plots to investigate continuous variation in animal contest strategies
Using ternary plots to investigate continuous variation in animal contest strategies
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DOI：
10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.06.006
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2020-09-01
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2.5
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Peixoto, P. E. C.
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Briffa, M.;Lane, S. M.;Peixoto, P. E. C.
对战斗动物使用的策略规则的研究通常试图将战斗归类为两种不同的类型：自我评估和相互评估。在自我评估中，失败者在跨越个人成本门槛时放弃，而不参考对手的战斗能力(资源持有潜力，RHP)，而在相互评估中，失败者将自己的资源持有潜力与对手的RHP进行比较，如果他们确定自己是较弱的竞争对手，则放弃。然而，最近有人提出，这种对评估战略变化的不连续看法可能过于简单化。这是因为使用关于自我RHP、对手RHP和资源价值的信息可能会在个体、种群和物种之间显示出持续的差异。虽然这种连续变化的可能性经常被忽视，但我们建议，通过考虑这三个信息源对失败者放弃决策的相对贡献，我们可以更好地理解战斗中的决策。在这里，我们使用三元图来演示如何使用模拟和真实的竞赛数据来说明自我RHP、对手RHP和资源价值对决策规则的相对贡献，以帮助实现对评估规则变化的更深入的讨论。(C)2020年动物行为研究协会。爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
Studies on the strategic rules used by fighting animals usually attempt to categorize fights as falling into one of two discrete types: self-assessment and mutual assessment. With self-assessment, losers give up when they cross an individual costs threshold, without reference to the fighting ability (resource-holding potential, RHP) of their opponent, while in mutual assessment, losers compare their own RHP to that of their opponent and give up if and when they determine themselves to be the weaker rival. However, it has recently been suggested that this discontinuous view of variation in assessment strategy might be an oversimplification. This is because use of information on self-RHP, opponent RHP and resource value is likely to show continuous variation across individuals, populations and species. While the possibility of this continuous variation is often ignored, we suggest that we can gain a better understanding of decision making during fights by considering the relative contributions of these three information sources to the giving-up decisions of losers. Here, we use ternary plots to demonstrate how the relative contribution of self-RHP, opponent RHP and resource value to decision rules can be illustrated using simulated and real contest data, as an aid to achieving greater depth in discussions of variation in assessment rules. (c) 2020 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.