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Human activities that impose novel challenges on a wide range of species, which can negatively influence individuals, populations, and communities as well as ecosystems
Social systems where individuals have flexibility in their social behaviors and group membership rather than being obligately social
tendency of an organism to stay in or habitually return to a particular area
The degree to which individuals can be discriminated from one another based on their vocalizations, quantified using information theory
Directed aggression toward conspecifics, increasing spatial distancing from or decreasing huddling with unfamiliar conspecifics
Mating system where males compete with one another over access to matelines consisting of groups of related females
Reduced fitness in inbred individuals compared to outbred individuals due to expression of deleterious recessive alleles