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Valdez Ovallez FM, Erostarbe AV, Cocilio RN, Gómez Alés R, Fernández R, Acosta R, Blanco G, Acosta JC, Corrales L. Microhabitat use and selection by Pristidactylus scapulatus (Squamata Leiosauridae) in the Puna region of the Central Andes in Argentina. ETHOL ECOL EVOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2022.2120085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Franco M. Valdez Ovallez
- Gabinete de Diversidad y Biología de Vertebrados del Árido (DIBIOVA), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590 (O) CPA: J5402DCS Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Av. Libertador Gral. José San Martín 1109 (O) CP: 5400, San Juan, Argentina
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- Gabinete de Diversidad y Biología de Vertebrados del Árido (DIBIOVA), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590 (O) CPA: J5402DCS Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Av. Libertador Gral. José San Martín 1109 (O) CP: 5400, San Juan, Argentina
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- Gabinete de Diversidad y Biología de Vertebrados del Árido (DIBIOVA), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590 (O) CPA: J5402DCS Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Av. Libertador Gral. José San Martín 1109 (O) CP: 5400, San Juan, Argentina
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- Gabinete de Diversidad y Biología de Vertebrados del Árido (DIBIOVA), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590 (O) CPA: J5402DCS Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Av. Libertador Gral. José San Martín 1109 (O) CP: 5400, San Juan, Argentina
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- Gabinete de Diversidad y Biología de Vertebrados del Árido (DIBIOVA), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590 (O) CPA: J5402DCS Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Av. Libertador Gral. José San Martín 1109 (O) CP: 5400, San Juan, Argentina
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- Gabinete de Diversidad y Biología de Vertebrados del Árido (DIBIOVA), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590 (O) CPA: J5402DCS Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina
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- Gabinete de Diversidad y Biología de Vertebrados del Árido (DIBIOVA), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590 (O) CPA: J5402DCS Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina
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- Gabinete de Diversidad y Biología de Vertebrados del Árido (DIBIOVA), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590 (O) CPA: J5402DCS Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina
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- Gabinete de Diversidad y Biología de Vertebrados del Árido (DIBIOVA), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590 (O) CPA: J5402DCS Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Av. Libertador Gral. José San Martín 1109 (O) CP: 5400, San Juan, Argentina
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Hammond TT, Swaisgood RR, Jacobs LE, Curtis MJ, McCormick BA, Hornfeldt JA, Trotman EM, Shier DM. Age‐dependent effects of developmental experience on morphology, performance, dispersal and survival in a translocated, endangered species. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Escondido CA USA
- Department of Biology University of Florida Gainesville FL USA
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- San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Escondido CA USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Los Angeles CA USA
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Hatchery enrichment accelerates use of land mark cue in route learning behaviour of climbing perch (Anabas testudineus Bloch 1792). LEARNING AND MOTIVATION 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2021.101732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Piao Y, Yao G, Jiang H, Huang S, Huang F, Tang Y, Liu Y, Chen Q. Do pit vipers assess their venom? Defensive tactics of Deinagkistrodon acutus shift with changed venom reserve. Toxicon 2021; 199:101-108. [PMID: 34107276 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2021.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/02/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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To maximize survival probability, animals must assess predation risks and adopt flexible defensive strategies based on specific conditions. Pit vipers utilize venom for predation and self-defense, and venom status significantly influences its effectiveness. Thus, pit vipers may evaluate their venom reserve and adopt corresponding defensive tactics. Twenty-three sharp-snouted pit vipers (Deinagkistrodon acutus) were grouped by different venom status and were subjected to eight behavior trials. Subjects' defensive behaviors were recorded and analyzed. Results showed that the normal venom group displayed stable responses across the trials. The low venom group showed fewer strikes and more fleeing behaviors at the end of experiments. After given prolonged intervals for replenishing the venom, significant increases of strike behaviors were observed in the replenishing venom group. These results demonstrated the capability of adopting flexible defensive tactics based on varied venom reserve and provided new evidence for venom-status-recognition.
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- Yige Piao
- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, 102205, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, 102205, China.
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- Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241000, Anhui, China; Huangshan Noah Biodiversity Institute, Huangshan, 245000, Anhui, China.
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- Huangshan Institute of Snake, Huangshan, 245000, Anhui, China.
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
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Bonini‐Campos B, Lofeu L, Brandt R, Kohlsdorf T. Different developmental environments reveal multitrait plastic responses in South American Anostomidae fish. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2019; 332:238-244. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2019] [Revised: 07/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Bianca Bonini‐Campos
- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão PretoUniversidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão PretoUniversidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão PretoUniversidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
- Science Communication Program, School of the EnvironmentLaurentian University Ontario Canada
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- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão PretoUniversidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
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Snell-Rood EC, Steck MK. Behaviour shapes environmental variation and selection on learning and plasticity: review of mechanisms and implications. Anim Behav 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Captive-reared juvenile box turtles innately prefer naturalistic habitat: Implications for translocation. Appl Anim Behav Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2018.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Langenhof MR, Komdeur J. Why and how the early-life environment affects development of coping behaviours. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2018; 72:34. [PMID: 29449757 PMCID: PMC5805793 DOI: 10.1007/s00265-018-2452-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Revised: 01/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Understanding the ways in which individuals cope with threats, respond to challenges, make use of opportunities and mediate the harmful effects of their surroundings is important for predicting their ability to function in a rapidly changing world. Perhaps one of the most essential drivers of coping behaviour of adults is the environment experienced during their early-life development. Although the study of coping, defined as behaviours displayed in response to environmental challenges, has a long and rich research history in biology, recent literature has repeatedly pointed out that the processes through which coping behaviours develop in individuals are still largely unknown. In this review, we make a move towards integrating ultimate and proximate lines of coping behaviour research. After broadly defining coping behaviours (1), we review why, from an evolutionary perspective, the development of coping has become tightly linked to the early-life environment (2), which relevant developmental processes are most important in creating coping behaviours adjusted to the early-life environment (3), which influences have been shown to impact those developmental processes (4) and what the adaptive significance of intergenerational transmission of coping behaviours is, in the context of behavioural adaptations to a fast changing world (5). Important concepts such as effects of parents, habitat, nutrition, social group and stress are discussed using examples from empirical studies on mammals, fish, birds and other animals. In the discussion, we address important problems that arise when studying the development of coping behaviours and suggest solutions.
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- M. Rohaa Langenhof
- Behavioural Physiology and Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Behavioural Physiology and Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Delaney DM, Warner DA. Adult Male Density Influences Juvenile Microhabitat Use in a Territorial Lizard. Ethology 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- David M. Delaney
- Department of Biology; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham AL USA
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- Department of Biology; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham AL USA
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Aslan CE, Bronstein JL, Rogers HS, Gedan KB, Brodie J, Palmer TM, Young TP. Leveraging nature's backup plans to incorporate interspecific interactions and resilience into restoration. Restor Ecol 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.12346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Clare E. Aslan
- Landscape Conservation Initiative; Northern Arizona University; Flagstaff AZ 86005 U.S.A
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of Arizona; Tucson AZ 85721 U.S.A
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology; Iowa State University; Ames IA 50010 U.S.A
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- Department of Biology; University of Maryland; College Park MD 20740 U.S.A
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- Department of Zoology; University of British Columbia; Vancouver Canada
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- Department of Biology; University of Florida; Gainesville FL 32611 U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Sciences; University of California; Davis CA 95616 U.S.A
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Berner D, Thibert-Plante X. How mechanisms of habitat preference evolve and promote divergence with gene flow. J Evol Biol 2015; 28:1641-55. [PMID: 26119841 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2015] [Revised: 06/13/2015] [Accepted: 06/19/2015] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Habitat preference may promote adaptive divergence and speciation, yet the conditions under which this is likely are insufficiently explored. We use individual-based simulations to study the evolution and consequence of habitat preference during divergence with gene flow, considering four different underlying genetically based behavioural mechanisms: natal habitat imprinting, phenotype-dependent, competition-dependent and direct genetic habitat preference. We find that the evolution of habitat preference generally requires initially high dispersal, is facilitated by asymmetry in population sizes between habitats, and is hindered by an increasing number of underlying genetic loci. Moreover, the probability of habitat preference to emerge and promote divergence differs greatly among the underlying mechanisms. Natal habitat imprinting evolves most easily and can allow full divergence in parameter ranges where no divergence is possible in the absence of habitat preference. The reason is that imprinting represents a one-allele mechanism of assortative mating linking dispersal behaviour very effectively to local selection. At the other extreme, direct genetic habitat preference, a two-allele mechanism, evolves under restricted conditions only, and even then facilitates divergence weakly. Overall, our results indicate that habitat preference can be a strong reproductive barrier promoting divergence with gene flow, but that this is highly contingent on the underlying preference mechanism.
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- D Berner
- Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.,Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.,Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, and IceLab, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Wang S, Lillywhite HB, Tu MC. Locomotor performance of three sympatric species of sea kraits (Laticauda spp.) from Orchid Island, Taiwan. Zool Stud 2013. [DOI: 10.1186/1810-522x-52-43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Background
Assuming that locomotion has a strong influence on animals’ fitness, we hypothesized that better locomotor performance would be associated with the most frequently utilized habitat. Laticauda colubrina, Laticauda laticaudata, and Laticauda semifasciata have different amphibious habits and microhabitat preferences at Orchid Island, Taiwan. We investigated the morphology and locomotor performance of the three sympatric species of sea krait. The measurements of body size, tail area, and body shape were compared in our study. Data on crawling and swimming speeds were gathered to investigate locomotor performance in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Results
We found significant differences in the locomotor performances among the three species. L. colubrina was the most terrestrial species in habits and sprinted significantly faster than the others during terrestrial locomotion. On the other hand, L. semifasciata was the most aquatic species, and it swam significantly faster than the other two species. These results are consistent with our hypothesis that sea kraits move well in their respective primary environments. With respect to the highly aquatic L. semifasciata, its laterally compressed body form, large body size, and large area of compressed tail are considered to be beneficial to swimming in an aquatic environment.
Conclusions
More data are required to understand the superior terrestrial locomotion of L. colubrina, but this species may benefit from its more-cylindrical body form compared to L. semifasciata and from its greater muscle mass compared to L. laticaudata. L. laticaudata was intermediate in habits but exhibited the poorest performance in both swimming and terrestrial locomotion. The reasons for this remain unclear.
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Goodman BA, Schwarzkopf L, Krockenberger AK. Phenotypic Integration in Response to Incubation Environment Adaptively Influences Habitat Choice in a Tropical Lizard. Am Nat 2013; 182:666-73. [DOI: 10.1086/673299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Dixson DL, Jones GP, Munday PL, Planes S, Pratchett MS, Thorrold SR. Experimental evaluation of imprinting and the role innate preference plays in habitat selection in a coral reef fish. Oecologia 2013; 174:99-107. [PMID: 23996231 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2755-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 08/17/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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When facing decisions about where to live, juveniles have a strong tendency to choose habitats similar to where their parents successfully bred. Developing larval fishes can imprint on the chemical cues from their natal habitat. However, to demonstrate that imprinting is ecologically important, it must be shown that settlers respond and distinguish among different imprinted cues, and use imprinting for decisions in natural environments. In addition, the potential role innate preferences play compared to imprinted choices also needs to be examined. As environmental variability increases due to anthropogenic causes these two recognition mechanisms, innate and imprinting, could provide conflicting information. Here we used laboratory rearing and chemical choice experiments to test imprinting in larval anemonefish (Amphiprion percula). Individuals exposed to a variety of benthic habitat or novel olfactory cues as larvae either developed a preference for (spent >50% of their time in the cue) or increased their attraction to (increased preference but did not spend >50% of their time in the cue) the cue when re-exposed as settlers. Results indicate not only the capacity for imprinting but also the ability to adjust innate preferences after early exposure to a chemical cue. To test ecological relevance in the natural system, recruits were collected from anemones and related to their parents, using genetic parentage analysis, providing information on the natal anemone species and the species chosen at settlement. Results demonstrated that recruits did not preferentially return to their natal species, conflicting with laboratory results indicating the importance imprinting might have in habitat recognition.
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- Danielle L Dixson
- School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, 4811, Townsville, QLD, Australia,
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Non-random gene flow: an underappreciated force in evolution and ecology. Trends Ecol Evol 2012; 27:659-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2012] [Revised: 06/28/2012] [Accepted: 07/18/2012] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Aubret F. Body-Size Evolution on Islands: Are Adult Size Variations in Tiger Snakes a Nonadaptive Consequence of Selection on Birth Size? Am Nat 2012; 179:756-67. [DOI: 10.1086/665653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Huijbers CM, Nagelkerken I, Lössbroek PAC, Schulten IE, Siegenthaler A, Holderied MW, Simpson SD. A test of the senses: fish select novel habitats by responding to multiple cues. Ecology 2012; 93:46-55. [PMID: 22486086 DOI: 10.1890/10-2236.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Habitat-specific cues play an important role in orientation for animals that move through a mosaic of habitats. Environmental cues can be imprinted upon during early life stages to guide later return to adult habitats, yet many species must orient toward suitable habitats without previous experience of the habitat. It is hypothesized that multiple sensory cues may enable animals to differentiate between habitats in a sequential order relevant to the spatial scales over which the different types of information are conveyed, but previous research, especially for marine organisms, has mainly focused on the use of single cues in isolation. In this study, we investigated novel habitat selection through the use of three different sensory modalities (hearing, vision, and olfaction). Our model species, the French grunt, Haemulon flavolineatum, is a mangrove/seagrass-associated reef fish species that makes several habitat transitions during early life. Using several in situ and ex situ experiments, we tested the response of fish toward auditory, olfactory, and visual cues from four different habitats (seagrass beds, mangroves, rubble, and coral reef). We identified receptivity to multiple sensory cues during the same life phase, and found that different cues induced different reactions toward the same habitat. For example, early-juvenile fish only responded to sound from coral reefs and to chemical cues from mangroves/seagrass beds, while visual cues of conspecifics overruled olfactory cues from mangrove/seagrass water. Mapping these preferences to the ecology of ontogenetic movements, our results suggest sequential cue use would indeed aid successful orientation to novel key habitats in early life.
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- Chantal M Huijbers
- Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology, Mailbox 31, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Miller CW, Fletcher RJ, Anderson BD, Nguyen LD. Natal social environment influences habitat selection later in life. Anim Behav 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Roe JH, Frank MR, Gibson SE, Attum O, Kingsbury BA. No place like home: an experimental comparison of reintroduction strategies using snakes. J Appl Ecol 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01886.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Aubret F, Shine R. Thermal plasticity in young snakes: how will climate change affect the thermoregulatory tactics of ectotherms? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 213:242-8. [PMID: 20038657 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.035931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Climate change will result in some areas becoming warmer and others cooler, and will amplify the magnitude of year-to-year thermal variation in many areas. How will such changes affect animals that rely on ambient thermal heterogeneity to behaviourally regulate their body temperatures? To explore this question, we raised 43 captive-born tiger snakes Notechis scutatus in enclosures that provided cold (19-22 degrees C), intermediate (19-26 degrees C) or hot (19-37 degrees C) thermal gradients. The snakes adjusted their diel timing of thermoregulatory behaviour so effectively that when tested 14 months later, body temperatures (mean and maximum), locomotor speeds and anti-predator behaviours did not differ among treatment groups. Thus, the young snakes modified their behaviour to compensate for restricted thermal opportunities. Then, we suddenly shifted ambient conditions to mimic year-to-year variation. In contrast to the earlier plasticity, snakes failed to adjust to this change, e.g. snakes raised at cooler treatments but then shifted to hot conditions showed a higher mean body temperature for at least two months after the onset of the new thermal regime. Hence, thermal conditions experienced early in life influenced subsequent thermoregulatory tactics; the mean selected temperature of a snake depended more upon its prior raising conditions than upon its current thermoregulatory opportunities. Behavioural plasticity thus allows snakes to adjust to suboptimal thermal conditions but this plasticity is limited. The major thermoregulatory challenge from global climate change may not be the shift in mean values (to which our young snakes adjusted) but the increased year-to-year variation (with which our snakes proved less able to deal).
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- F Aubret
- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Expérimentale, CNRS à Moulis, 09200 Moulis, France.
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Chapman BB, Morrell LJ, Tosh CR, Krause J. Behavioural consequences of sensory plasticity in guppies. Proc Biol Sci 2010; 277:1395-401. [PMID: 20053643 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Sensory plasticity, whereby individuals compensate for sensory deprivation in one sense by an improvement in the performance of an alternative sense, is a well-documented phenomenon in nature. Despite this, the behavioural and ecological consequences of sensory plasticity have not been addressed. Here we show experimentally that some components (vision and chemoreception) of the sensory system of guppies are developmentally plastic, and that this plasticity has important consequences for foraging behaviour. Guppies reared under low light conditions had a significantly stronger response to chemical food cues encountered in isolation than fish reared at higher light levels. Conversely, they exhibited a weaker response to visual-only cues. When visual and olfactory/gustatory cues were presented together, no difference between the strength of response for fish reared at different light intensities was evident. Our data suggest that guppies can compensate for experience of a visually poor, low light environment via a sensory switch from vision to olfaction/gustation. This switch from sight to chemoreception may allow individuals to carry out the foraging behaviour that is essential to their survival in a visually poor environment. These considerations are especially important given the increasing frequency of anthropogenic changes to ecosystems. Compensatory phenotypic plasticity as demonstrated by our study may provide a hitherto unconsidered buffer that could allow animals to perform fundamental behaviours in the face of considerable change to the sensory environment.
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- Ben B Chapman
- Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, University of Leeds, , Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
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Stamps JA, Krishnan VV, Willits NH. How different types of natal experience affect habitat preference. Am Nat 2009; 174:623-30. [PMID: 19775241 DOI: 10.1086/644526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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In many animals, exposure to cues in a natal habitat increases disperser preferences for those cues (natal habitat preference induction [NHPI]), but the proximate and ultimate bases for this phenomenon are obscure. We developed a Bayesian model to study how different types of experience in the natal habitat and survival to the age/stage of dispersal interact to affect a disperser's estimate of the quality of new natal-type habitats. The model predicts that the types of experience a disperser had before leaving its natal habitat will affect the attractiveness of cues from new natal-type habitats and that favorable experiences will increase the level of preference for natal-type habitats more than unfavorable experiences will decrease it. An experimental study of NHPI in Drosophila melanogaster provided with "good" and "bad" experiences in their natal habitats supports these predictions while also indicating that the effects of different types of natal experience on NHPI vary across genotypes. If habitat preferences are modulated by an individual's experience before dispersal as described in this study, then NHPI may have stronger effects on sympatric speciation, metapopulation dynamics, conservation biology, and pest management than previously supposed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Judy A Stamps
- Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
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Bolnick DI, Snowberg LK, Patenia C, Stutz WE, Ingram T, Lau OL. Phenotype-dependent native habitat preference facilitates divergence between parapatric lake and stream stickleback. Evolution 2009; 63:2004-16. [PMID: 19473386 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00699.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Adaptive divergence between adjoining populations reflects a balance between the diversifying effect of divergent selection and the potentially homogenizing effect of gene flow. In most models of migration-selection balance, gene flow is assumed to reflect individuals' inherent capacity to disperse, without regard to the match between individuals' phenotypes and the available habitats. However, habitat preferences can reduce dispersal between contrasting habitats, thereby alleviating migration load and facilitating adaptive divergence. We tested whether habitat preferences contribute to adaptive divergence in a classic example of migration-selection balance: parapatric lake and stream populations of three-spine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Using a mark-transplant-recapture experiment on morphologically divergent parapatric populations, we showed that 90% of lake and stream stickleback returned to their native habitat, reducing migration between habitats by 76%. Furthermore, we found that dispersal into a nonnative habitat was phenotype dependent. Stream fish moving into the lake were morphologically more lake-like than those returning to the stream (and the converse for lake fish entering the stream). The strong native habitat preference documented here increases the extent of adaptive divergence between populations two- to fivefold relative to expectations with random movement. These results illustrate the potential importance of adaptive habitat choice in driving parapatric divergence.
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- Daniel I Bolnick
- Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
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