Dieter Lukas

Dominance hierarchies are structured similarly in females and males across primate groups

This study analyzes dominance hierarchy metrics in primates and finds no sex differences in hierarchy steepness, linearity, or directional consistency.

Effect of the environment, predation and life history on reproductive synchrony in Perissodactyla

This study examines factors influencing birth synchrony in Perissodactyla, finding environmental seasonality and latitude positively affect it, while productivity does not, and group size supports the swamping hypothesis.

The evolution of non-seasonal breeding in primates

This study examines factors influencing reproductive seasonality in primates, finding that productivity and behavioral strategies affect seasonality more than environmental constraints.

Flexible reproductive seasonality in Africa-dwelling papionins is associated with low environmental productivity and high climatic unpredictability

This study examines reproductive seasonality in Africa-dwelling papionins, finding that rainfall unpredictability, not rainfall seasonality, predicts the intensity of reproductive seasonality across populations.