Open Research Exeter (ORE): Recent submissions
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Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification
(Springer, 19 May 2022)Transitions towards more sustainable agricultural systems are often characterised by ‘lock-ins’, understood as self-reinforcing mechanisms that reproduce the status quo and impede change. While socioeconomic, technological ... -
From symmetric networks to heteroclinic dynamics and chaos in coupled phase oscillators with higher-order interactions
(Springer Nature, 27 April 2022)We highlight some results from normal form theory for symmetric bifurcations that give a rational way to organize higher-order interactions between phase oscillators in networks with fully symmetric coupling. For systems ... -
Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 27 May 2022)The rate of adaptive evolution, the contribution of selection to genetic changes that increase mean fitness, is determined by the additive genetic variance in individual relative fitness. To date, there are few robust ... -
Cooperative nest building in wild jackdaw pairs
(Elsevier, 6 July 2021)Animals create diverse structures, both individually and cooperatively, using materials from their environment. One striking example is the nests birds build for reproduction, which protect the offspring from external ... -
Vocally mediated consensus decisions govern mass departures from jackdaw roosts.
(Elsevier, 23 May 2022)In the early morning, large groups of up to hundreds or even thousands of roosting birds, sometimes comprising the entire roost population, often take off together in sudden mass departures. These departures commonly occur ...