Reposted by @jennakohles.bsky.social
New paper in TREE co-led w @jennakohles.bsky.social: We explore how resource variability shapes the value of social information for maximizing resource gain & minimizing variance. This eco-evolutionary lens helps us explain why collective sensing emerges in dynamic ecosystems!
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Resource variability shapes the ecology of social information and collective sensing
Social information expands individual sensing of resources in dynamic ecosystems,
yet why social strategies evolve in resource pursuit remains unsettled. We posit that
resource variability along three...
