Fighting isn’t sexy in lekking Greater Sage-grouse: A relational event model approach for mating interactions|动物行为数据集|生态学数据集

The relationship between aggression and mate choice in mating systems is critical for understanding the evolution and diversification of sexual organisms, and yet remains the subject of vigorous debate. A key challenge is that traditional correlational approaches cannot distinguish underlying mechanisms of social interaction and can indicate misleading positive associations between aggression and mating events. We implement a novel Relational Event Model (REM) incorporating temporal dependencies of events in a social network to study natural reproductive behavior in a lek-breeding system where males gather to display and females visit to evaluate mates, often observing both male courtship displays and fights. We find that fighting is not attractive to females. Indeed, males are less likely to start and more likely to leave fights with females present, plausibly to avoid entanglement in protracted combat cycles arising from emergent social processes that reduce availability to mate. Howe..., , , # Fighting isn’t sexy in lekking Greater Sage-grouse: A relational event model approach for mating interactions

This repository contains all the data and code necessary to reproduce the results presented in Snow et al., Fighting isn't sexy in lekking Greater Sage-grouse: a relation event model approach for mating interactions

## Setup

Follow these steps to set up the project:

### Download project repository

1. Download the project repository `Snow_et_al_data_code_ESM.zip` from [Zenodo](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14957319).
2. Unzip

### Download data

The two datasets archived here on Dryad must be downloaded in order to reproduce the summary tables from the raw simulation data in Section 6.7 (Simulation Experiments; refer to that section for a detailed explanation of the materials contained).

1. Download data 'simplified_sim_experiment_results_sd_7days.zip' and 'simplified_sim_experiment_results_sd_7days_rec.zip'
2. Unzip the downloaded .zip files and move them both into the ...,