Abstract

Territoriality entails demanding social interactions with competing individuals, typically males. Variation in quality of males can be predicted to affect the spatial arrangement of territories. We present a model aimed at understanding the spatial properties of territories on leks, where the presence of a hierarchy in a population of males leads to the clustering of individuals around high-ranking ‘hotshot’ males. The hierarchy results in a decrease in the number of nearest neighbors interacting directly with high-ranking males, with potential socio-sexual benefits for such males.

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Title
High-ranking alleviates male local competition in lek mating systems
Author
Giavazzi, Fabio 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Saino, Nicola 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Vailati, Alberto 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 
2  Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 
3  Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 
Pages
1-5
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Oct 2018
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33292-3
ProQuest document ID
2118788341
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.