{"id":6133,"date":"2018-06-20T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2018-07-10T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:37:51","slug":"who-takes-the-most-risks-and-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/who-takes-the-most-risks-and-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Who takes the most risks, and when?\u00a0<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new mathematical model shows organisms in good condition take the most risks when their condition gives them higher probabilities of success, higher gains from success, or higher buffering against failure. Conversely, organisms in poor condition take the most risks when poor condition causes desperation. Under specific conditions, the riskiest individuals are those in intermediate condition, or extremely good and bad condition.<\/p>\n<p><em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0June 20,\u00a02018<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/press.royalsociety.org\/thePressRelease.aspx?id=16804\" target=\"_blank\">Brief<\/a> from Royal Society)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2018.0180\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>URL after publication<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Lead author:<\/strong> Pat Barclay University of Guelph &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:barclayp@uoguelph.ca\" target=\"_blank\">barclayp@uoguelph.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new mathematical model shows organisms in good condition take the most risks when their condition gives them higher probabilities of success, higher gains from success, or higher buffering against failure. Conversely, organisms in poor condition take the most risks when poor condition causes desperation. Under specific conditions, the riskiest individuals are those in intermediate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1AV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6166,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions\/6166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}