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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The Royal Society's flagship biological research journal, dedicated to the fast publication and worldwide dissemination of high-quality research. This is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.
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Behavioural responses to mammalian grazing expose insect herbivores to elevated risk of avian predation

Large mammalian herbivores (LMH) are important functional components and drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in grasslands. Yet their role in regulating food-web dynamics and trophic cascades remains poorly understood. In the temperate ...Read more
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Overcoming the pitfalls of categorizing continuous variables in ecology, evolution and behaviour

Many variables in biological research—from body size to life-history timing to environmental characteristics—are measured continuously (e.g. body mass in kilograms) but analysed as categories (e.g. large versus small), which can lower statistical power ...Read more
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Physically stressed bees expect less reward in an active choice judgement bias test

Emotion-like states in animals are commonly assessed using judgment bias tests that measure judgements of ambiguous cues. Some studies have used these tests to argue for emotion-like states in insects. However, most of these results could have other ...Read more
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Long-term anti-predator learning and memory differ across populations and sexes in an intertidal snail

Anti-predator behaviours in response to predator cues can be innate, or they can be learned through prior experience and remembered over time. The duration and strength of continued anti-predator behaviour after predator cues are no longer present, and ...Read more

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Proceedings B is the Royal Society’s flagship biological research journal, accepting original articles and reviews of outstanding scientific importance and broad general interest. The main criteria for acceptance are that a study is novel, and has general significance to biologists. Articles published cover a wide range of areas within the biological sciences, many have relevance.

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