Helpers provide no detectable benefits in the European badger (Meles meles)

By R. Woodroffe, David W. Macdonald. 2000

87 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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In Ecology

1. E. Revilla
2. B. Jędrzejewska
3. R. Kowalczyk
4. Francisco Palomares
5. A. Zalewski
6. W. Jędrzejewski
7. F. Rosell
8. David W. Macdonald

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. E. Revilla
2. Francisco Palomares
3. David W. Macdonald
4. Joan B. Silk
5. Dominic D. P. Johnson

In Social Psychology

1. Joan B. Silk
2. David W. Macdonald
3. E. Revilla
4. Jennifer E. Smith
5. Robin I. M. Dunbar
6. S. Alberts
7. Jeanne Altmann
8. S. Koski

Citations in the corpus

• Spatial organization and demography of badgers (Meles meles) in Bialowieza Primeval Forest, Poland, and the influence of earthworms on badger densities in Europe (2003, background): “In the British Isles, up to 4 breeding females per group were observed (Rogers et al. 1997; Woodroffe and Macdonald 2000).”
• An analysis and review of models of the sociobiology of the Mustelidae (2000, background): “Although groups of Badgers may exhibit some behaviourally important social interactions (Woodroffe, 1993; Stewart, Bonesi & Macdonald, 1999), there is no good evidence of any direct benefits of group living in this species (Woodroffe & Macdonald, 2000).”
• The adaptive value of sociality in mammalian groups (2007, background): “Woodroffe & Macdonald (2000) found that the number of cubs that survive to 1 year of age is positively related to the number of available helpers, but this effect seems to be an artefact of variation in territory quality.”
• Territory and group sizes in Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber): echoes of settlement and reproduction? (2005, background): “Similar costs to group living have been found in communally breeding mammals such as the European badger, Meles meles (Woodroffe and Macdonald 2000) and the tuco-tuco, Ctenomys sociabilis (Lacey 2004).”
• Spatial organization, group living and ecological correlates in low‐density populations of Eurasian badgers, Meles meles (2002, background): “In these high-density populations cooperation between individuals is rare, and thus the advantages of group living are not evident ( Woodroffe & Macdonald 2000 ).”