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SUBMITTER: Stockermans BC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3730650 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stockermans Bernard C BC Hardy Ian C W IC
Biology letters 20130522 4
Two major categories of factors are predicted to influence behaviour in dyadic contests; differences in the abilities of the contestants to acquire and retain resources (resource holding potential), and the value of the contested resource (resource value, RV; which comprises objective and subjective components). Recent studies indicate that subjective components affect contest behaviour in several animal taxa but few have simultaneously investigated objective RV components. We find that both an ...[more]