Highlights ► Elo-rating generates reliable dominance hierarchies and circumvents drawbacks of established ranking methods. ► It allows visualizing dominance relationships and the detection of rank dynamics. ► An index to objectively assess the stability of a dominance hierarchy is proposed
Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) are gregarious primates that form despotic societies characterized ...
Although social hierarchies are recognized as dynamic systems, they are typically treated as static ...
Version of record of R package to calculate dominance hierarchy steepness (EloSteepness) and accompa...
Many methods of dominance rank ordination were recently reviewed by de Vries (1998). Overall, two ...
In studies of animal behaviour investigators correlate dominance with all kinds of behavioural varia...
1. Social inequality is a consistent feature of animal societies, often manifesting as dominance hie...
In studies of animal behaviour investigators correlate dominance with all kinds of behavioural varia...
Among studies of social species, it is common practice to rank individuals using dyadic social domin...
The development of numerical methods for inferring social ranks has resulted in an overwhelming arra...
The strength of dominance hierarchy in a group of animals needs to be quantitatively measured since ...
A plethora of indices have been proposed and used to construct dominance hierarchies in a variety of...
In the analysis of social dominance in groups of animals, linearity has been used by many researcher...
In this thesis I review some of methods used in research on dominance hierarchy in animals. I will f...
Measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy is important for classifying a social system in a c...
Animals that live in groups commonly form themselves into dominance hierarchies which are used to al...
Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) are gregarious primates that form despotic societies characterized ...
Although social hierarchies are recognized as dynamic systems, they are typically treated as static ...
Version of record of R package to calculate dominance hierarchy steepness (EloSteepness) and accompa...
Many methods of dominance rank ordination were recently reviewed by de Vries (1998). Overall, two ...
In studies of animal behaviour investigators correlate dominance with all kinds of behavioural varia...
1. Social inequality is a consistent feature of animal societies, often manifesting as dominance hie...
In studies of animal behaviour investigators correlate dominance with all kinds of behavioural varia...
Among studies of social species, it is common practice to rank individuals using dyadic social domin...
The development of numerical methods for inferring social ranks has resulted in an overwhelming arra...
The strength of dominance hierarchy in a group of animals needs to be quantitatively measured since ...
A plethora of indices have been proposed and used to construct dominance hierarchies in a variety of...
In the analysis of social dominance in groups of animals, linearity has been used by many researcher...
In this thesis I review some of methods used in research on dominance hierarchy in animals. I will f...
Measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy is important for classifying a social system in a c...
Animals that live in groups commonly form themselves into dominance hierarchies which are used to al...
Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) are gregarious primates that form despotic societies characterized ...
Although social hierarchies are recognized as dynamic systems, they are typically treated as static ...
Version of record of R package to calculate dominance hierarchy steepness (EloSteepness) and accompa...