@article{SchneebergerTaborsky2020,
  author    = {Schneeberger, Karin and Taborsky, Michael},
  title     = {The role of sensory ecology and cognition in social decisions},
  series = {Functional ecology : an official journal of the British Ecological Society},
  volume    = {34},
  journal   = {Functional ecology : an official journal of the British Ecological Society},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0269-8463},
  doi       = {10.1111/1365-2435.13488},
  pages     = {302 -- 309},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {1. We generally assume that animals should maximize information acquisition about their environment to make prudent decisions. But this is a naive assumption, as gaining information typically involves costs. <br /> 2. This is especially so in the social context, where interests between interacting partners usually diverge. The arms race involved in mutual assessment is characterized by the attempt to obtain revealing information from a partner while providing only as much information by oneself as is conducive to one's own intentions. <br /> 3. If obtaining information occasions costs in terms of time, energy and risk, animals should be selected to base their decisions on a cost-benefit ratio that takes account of the trade-off between the risk of making wrong choices and the costs involved in information acquisition, processing and use. <br /> 4. In addition, there may be physiological and/or environmental constraints limiting the ability to obtaining, processing and utilizing reliable information. <br /> 5. Here, we discuss recent empirical evidence for the proposition that social decisions are to an important extent based on the costs that result from acquiring, processing, evaluating and storing information. Using examples from different taxa and ecological contexts, we aim at drawing attention to the often neglected costs of information recipience, with emphasis on the potential role of sensory ecology and cognition in social decisions.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WenzLevermannWillneretal.2020,
  author    = {Wenz, Leonie and Levermann, Anders and Willner, Sven N. and Otto, Christian and Kuhla, Kilian},
  title     = {Post-Brexit no-trade-deal scenario: short-term consumer benefit at the expense of long-term economic development},
  series = {PLoS ONE},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {PLoS ONE},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {PLOS},
  address   = {San Francisco},
  pages     = {14},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {After the United Kingdom has left the European Union it remains unclear whether the two parties can successfully negotiate and sign a trade agreement within the transition period. Ongoing negotiations, practical obstacles and resulting uncertainties make it highly unlikely that economic actors would be fully prepared to a "no-trade-deal" situation. Here we provide an economic shock simulation of the immediate aftermath of such a post-Brexit no-trade-deal scenario by computing the time evolution of more than 1.8 million interactions between more than 6,600 economic actors in the global trade network. We find an abrupt decline in the number of goods produced in the UK and the EU. This sudden output reduction is caused by drops in demand as customers on the respective other side of the Channel incorporate the new trade restriction into their decision-making. As a response, producers reduce prices in order to stimulate demand elsewhere. In the short term consumers benefit from lower prices but production value decreases with potentially severe socio-economic consequences in the longer term.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BreedveldFolkertsmaEccard2019,
  author    = {Breedveld, Merel Cathelijne and Folkertsma, Remco and Eccard, Jana},
  title     = {Rodent mothers increase vigilance behaviour when facing infanticide risk},
  series = {Scientific Reports},
  volume    = {9},
  journal   = {Scientific Reports},
  publisher = {Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {2045-2322},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41598-019-48459-9},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Infanticide, the killing of unrelated young, is widespread and frequently driven by sexual conflict. especially in mammals with exclusive maternal care, infanticide by males is common and females suffer fitness costs. Recognizing infanticide risk and adjusting offspring protection accordingly should therefore be adaptive in female mammals. Using a small mammal (Myodes glareolus) in outdoor enclosures, we investigated whether lactating mothers adjust offspring protection, and potential mate search behaviour, in response to different infanticide risk levels. We presented the scent of the litter's sire or of a stranger male near the female's nest, and observed female nest presence and movement by radiotracking. While both scents simulated a mating opportunity, they represented lower (sire) and higher (stranger) infanticide risk. compared to the sire treatment, females in the stranger treatment left their nest more often, showed increased activity and stayed closer to the nest, suggesting offspring protection from outside the nest through elevated alertness and vigilance. females with larger litters spent more time investigating scents and used more space in the sire but not in the stranger treatment. Thus, current investment size affected odour inspection and resource acquisition under higher risk. Adjusting nest protection and resource acquisition to infanticide risk could allow mothers to elicit appropriate (fitness-saving) counterstrategies, and thus, may be widespread.},
  language  = {en}
}