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As with other features of animal societies, relatedness, competitiveness and ecological constraints (e.g. habitat saturation and risks of dispersal) have been proposed as key factors explaining variation in cooperation and conflict. However, the exact causes remain unclear. We used the humbug damselfish (Dascyllus aruanus)\u2014a small coral reef fish that occupies coral heads\u2014to experimentally test the prediction from Emlen's ecological constraints model that relaxed constraints increase conflict and decrease cooperation within social groups. We manipulated ecological constraints by providing a vacant coral near groups and examined changes in social interactions. We also assessed how variation in social context (e.g. individual size, group size and size ratios) and ecological context (e.g. territory size, habitat availability and local group density) modulated these effects. Relaxing ecological constraints led to increased conflict in groups occupying larger corals, in areas with greater habitat availability and in larger groups, whereas it led to decreased conflict by larger individuals and in areas with higher local group density. No effect on cooperative behaviours was observed. 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