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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 6-18Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.10.004
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [14-ACHN-0003]
- ANR-Labex Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST)
- McDonnell Foundation [220020294]
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By consuming and producing environmental resources, organisms inevitably change their habitats. The consequences of such environmental modifications can be detrimental or beneficial not only to the focal organism but also to other organisms sharing the same environment. Social evolution theory has been very influential in studying how social interactions mediated by public 'goods' or 'bads' evolve by emphasizing the role of spatial structure. The environmental dimensions driving these interactions, however, are typically abstracted away. We propose here a new, environment-mediated taxonomy of social behaviors where organisms are categorized by their production or consumption of environmental factors that can help or harm others in the environment. We discuss microbial examples of our classification and highlight the importance of environmental intermediates more generally.
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