Fighting over food unites the birds of North America in a continental dominance hierarchy
E. T. Miller, D. N. Bonter, C. Eldermire, B. G. Freeman, E. I. Greig, L. J. Harmon, C. Lisle, W. M. Hochachka
The paper constructs a continental-scale interspecific dominance hierarchy of North American birds based on citizen science data and finds it is nearly linear, mostly predicted by body mass with clade-specific deviations.
bioRxiv · Jan 30, 2017Ecology