[{"id":617,"title":"Solitary Ecological Dominance Consensus","sha":"3c146a83ef7dbf87f8eb4eae6a9e278e","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Is it possible to model the distributed dominance hierarchy of solitary species via a modified Byzantine fault problem? Traditionally used in distributed computing where the network consists of some unreliable actors, meanwhile a concerted strategy must be agreed upon, the Byzantine fault problem allows for erroneous communication of some global consensus under sparse pairwise communication. Under the assumption that solitary species individuals have some internal understanding of their own place in a dominance hierarchy (e.g., they know how aggressive they are compared to others), could we use the framework presented by the Byzantine fault problem to find a consensus of the hierarchy itself? In the traditional model, the Byzantine general must agree upon whether to attack a city or not -- under the solitary ecological dominance consensus this binary attack choice could be replaced with another binary choice such as entering another individual's range or not.\r\n\r\nThe genesis of this idea was in attempting to find some manner to determine the dominance hierarchy of the elusive, solitary Aye-aye of Madagascar. We can slice tracking and nesting data in a variety of binary manners, but the lack of clear contests between individuals led to a failure to construct a ecological dominance hierarchy by known methods.","created_at":"2019-09-05T01:24:45.699Z","updated_at":"2019-11-20T05:50:13.912Z","zenodo_id":3445547,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3445547","subject":null,"tags":["ecology","distributed","aye-aye","sparse"],"vote_count":2,"view_count":1,"score":2.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":554,"title":"Towards a unified framework for studying the impact of linear infrastructures","sha":"dccdc384e08088258406f10565ba060e","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Linear infrastructures such as roads, railways and power lines have considerable negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems ([van der Ree et al. 2015](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118568170); [Borda-de-Água et al. 2017](https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319574950); [D’Amico et al. 2018](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-018-1025-z)). All these impacts, including among others non-natural mortality and fragmentation, have been traditionally studied by focusing on single infrastructures (e.g. 1: bird collisions with power lines, [Barrientos et al. 2011](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01699.x); e.g. 2: road-avoidance responses by ungulates, [D’Amico et al. 2016](https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.12572)). Nevertheless, most species can simultaneously suffer from negative impacts due to different infrastructures (e.g. 1: both roads and power lines determine high mortality rates for the little bustard *Tetrax tetrax*, [Marcelino et al. 2018](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bird-conservation-international/article/tracking-data-of-the-little-bustard-tetrax-tetrax-in-iberia-shows-high-anthropogenic-mortality/643D8349348F42F1962CB0188A4B886A); e.g. 2: the reindeer *Rangifer tarandus* generally avoid both roads and power lines, [Nellemann et al. 2001](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320701000829)). As a consequence, we claim that considering at the same time all linear infrastructures would substantially improve our understanding of related impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, thus providing more robust outcomes for planning both mitigation measures and more sustainable human developments.","created_at":"2019-01-08T17:13:03.501Z","updated_at":"2019-03-02T17:59:16.959Z","zenodo_id":2548952,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2548952","subject":null,"tags":["ecology","conservation biology","road ecology","biodiversity","railway ecology","landscape ecology","wildlife"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]