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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Monika Sysiak, Barbara Pietrzak, Matylda Kubiak, Anna Bednarska, Andrzej Mikulski
Summary: By perceiving conspecific chemical cues, damselfly larvae are able to recognize the presence of other cannibals, which provides additional benefits for hunting and defense. However, it is unclear whether these cues inform individuals of danger or food availability in cannibalistic interactions. This study aimed to investigate the response of Ischnura elegans larvae to chemical cues from older conspecific larvae, and found that they exhibit anti-predator defense mechanisms in response to these cues, balancing prey-catching with staying safe.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
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Behavioral Sciences
Corinna Adrian, Simon C. Griffith, Marc Naguib, Wiebke Schuett
Summary: This study experimentally tested the use of acoustic cues in wild zebra finches to locate conspecifics and access social information. The results indicate that zebra finches were more likely to land near the sound source when vocalizations from foraging conspecific groups were broadcast. This suggests that they use acoustic cues as a source of social information for grouping decisions.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Xiaomei Chi, Fangyuan Hu, Chuanxin Qin, Xiyuan Huang, Jiangnan Sun, Zhouping Cui, Jingyun Ding, Mingfang Yang, Yaqing Chang, Chong Zhao
Summary: The experiment found that alarm cues can effectively prevent foraging and feeding behaviors of sea urchins Mesocentrotus nudus under static seawater conditions. Alarm cues may act as a barrier to prevent sea urchins from foraging, and significantly affect their feeding behavior. Moreover, alarm cues have the potential to stop sea urchins from feeding, though they do not affect Aristotle's lantern reflex of the sea urchins.
MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Melissa Ardila-Villamizar, Gustavo Alarcon-Nieto, Adriana A. A. Maldonado-Chaparro
Summary: Human-induced disturbances affect the escape responses of birds in urban environments, with birds in cities exhibiting shorter flight initiation distances. This study in Bogota, Colombia, examined the flight initiation distances of 15 bird species in different locations within the city and found variations in their responses. The study also suggests that social strategies may play a role in adapting to human-induced disturbances in urban tropical environments.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2022)
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Behavioral Sciences
Suzanne T. S. van Beeck Calkoen, Rebekka Kreikenbohm, Dries P. J. Kuijper, Marco Heurich
Summary: Red deer reduced their visitation duration and browsing intensity on plots with large carnivore scent. However, the presence of large carnivore scent did not change selectivity towards different tree species. Contrary to expectations, the effects of cursorial predator wolf were more pronounced compared to ambush predator lynx.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Jared C. Wilson, Dalon P. White, Thomas M. Detmer, David H. Wahl
Summary: The study evaluated the fright response of juvenile bighead and silver carps when exposed to alarm cues from conspecific and heterospecific fishes. Results showed that both species were unable to recognize chemical alarm cues from North American cypriniforms, but were able to recognize conspecific alarm cues. Bighead carp and silver carp responded differently to conspecific alarm cues, with silver carp increasing distance among individuals and bighead carp reducing distance between individuals. Both species showed a reduction in activity after chemical application.
BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS
(2021)
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Food Science & Technology
Jarina Gabrielle Aquino Oliveira, Adriana Conceicao Soares Sampaio, Olivia Morgan Lapenta
Summary: This study evaluated the impact of sanitary cues in food videos during the COVID-19 pandemic on food appraisal and desire to eat. It found priming effects, as well as associations between mood symptoms and smell evaluations.
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Forestry
Hermine Annette Lisa van Ginkel, Marcin Churski, Dries Pieter Jan Kuijper, Christian Smit
Summary: Impediments such as tree logs can influence deer foraging decisions by blocking access to saplings and increasing perceived predation risk. Our study in Bialowieza forest, Poland, showed that the presence of impediments reduced deer visitation rates and browsing intensity, leading to increased growth of tree saplings, particularly for preferred tree species like Acer platanoides. This suggests that natural impediments can play a role in promoting forest diversity by allowing browsing intolerant tree species to escape browsing pressure.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
Ian Nicholas Best, Pei-Jen Lee Shaner, Kurtis Jai-Chyi Pei, Chi-Chien Kuo
Summary: The study in northwestern Taiwan found that wild murid rodents exhibited different behavioral responses to predation risk cues based on their body size and species. These responses were influenced by microhabitat characteristics and predator odors, and smaller and faster species showed more boldness.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2023)
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Behavioral Sciences
Fiona G. Shogren, Eileen A. Hebets, John P. DeLong
Summary: Many prey species can assess predation risk through different sensory systems, such as visual and chemical cues. It is unclear whether information from multiple sensory systems is redundant or interchangeable when the message is the same.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
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Biochemical Research Methods
Chang Xu, Yuxiang Wang, Gregory J. Gerling
Summary: This study explores an illusion phenomenon in discriminating material compliances, revealing the interplay between cutaneous responses and proprioceptive feedback in perception of softness. By computationally evaluating stimulus elasticity and curvature and conducting empirical experiments, the research sheds light on the informatics of softness perception at skin contact.
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
Thomas Crouchet, Philipp Heeb, Alexis S. Chaine
Summary: Foraging decisions are influenced by predation risk and individual characteristics, and can have important implications for population dynamics.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Jennifer L. Kelley, Anna-Lee Jessop, Laura A. Kelley, Jolyon Troscianko
Summary: Self-shadows produced across the surface of an object are potentially important for visual systems, and animal patterns may use these self-shadows for camouflage. This study found that patterned targets with self-shadows had a higher survival probability, but visual metrics did not explain the variation in survival. Predator learning might have overridden the benefits of camouflaging coloration.
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
(2023)
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Biochemical Research Methods
Nathan Tardiff, Lalitta Suriya-Arunroj, Yale E. Cohen, Joshua Gold
Summary: Different types of expectations, such as those based on learned rules or recent stimulus regularities, can bias auditory perception in diverse ways. These biases depend on the source of the expectations and involve different computational and physiological mechanisms. Rule-based cues consistently bias choices and response times, while stimulus-based cues have a complex combination of effects on choices and response times.
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Yi Li, Jun Yao, Joseph Chen
Summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers perceive scarce hospitality businesses as less safe to consume, leading to lower purchase intentions and preferences. However, more diagnostic external information or consumption context can attenuate the negative impact of scarcity cues on consumer decisions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Oriol Lapiedra, Daniel Sol, Anna Traveset, Montserrat Vila
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2015)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Oriol Lapiedra, Zachary Chejanovski, Jason J. Kolbe
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ferran Sayol, Joan Maspons, Oriol Lapiedra, Andrew N. Iwaniuk, Tamas Szekely, Daniel Sol
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2016)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Zachary A. Chejanovski, Kevin J. Aviles-Rodriguez, Oriol Lapiedra, Evan L. Preisser, Jason J. Kolbe
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Oriol Lapiedra, Thomas W. Schoener, Manuel Leal, Jonathan B. Losos, Jason J. Kolbe
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Oriol Lapiedra, Anna Ponjoan, Anna Gamero, Gerard Bota, Santi Manosa
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2011)
Article
Zoology
Oriol Lapiedra
INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Ecology
Ferran Sayol, Oriol Lapiedra, Simon Ducatez, Daniel Sol
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jason J. Kolbe, Haley A. Moniz, Oriol Lapiedra, Christopher J. Thawley
Summary: The study found that brown anoles experienced higher short-term costs than benefits during initial exposure to artificial light at night, as they were more easily roused from sleep at night and had decreased daytime locomotor endurance.
Article
Biology
Oriol Lapiedra, Ferran Sayol, Joan Garcia-Porta, Daniel Sol
Summary: This study examines how ecological niche shifts on islands shaped biological diversification on continents, using the evolutionary radiation of Columbiformes. It found that colonization of islands by continental, terrestrial-foraging lineages led to the exploitation of a new ecological niche, associated with new morphological adaptations and increased speciation rates on islands. Results challenge the view of islands as mere sinks of evolutionary diversity and highlight the importance of studying diversification processes on islands for a full understanding of diversification on continents.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dan G. Bock, Simon Baeckens, Jessica N. Pita-Aquino, Zachary A. Chejanovski, Sozos N. Michaelides, Pavitra Muralidhar, Oriol Lapiedra, Sungdae Park, Douglas B. Menke, Anthony J. Geneva, Jonathan B. Losos, Jason J. Kolbe
Summary: Our study showed that hybridization in invasive populations is influenced by changes in natural selection, with stable genetic structure over time suggesting limited gene flow among invasive populations. The persistence of hybrids in invasive populations is attributed to changes in natural selection during invasion. Additionally, a large-effect X chromosome locus associated with limb length variation plays a role in hybrid adaptation.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Aina Garcia-Raventos, Antonio Munoz-Merida, Oriol Lapiedra, Mar Unzeta, Mariona Ferrandiz-Rovira, Daniel Sol
Summary: This study developed a novel method for molecular sexing of birds based on the detection of unique Z- and W-linked SNP markers. The method accurately assigned the sex of individuals in a species with reduced sexual dimorphism and different maturity stages, with high reliability and accuracy.
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Oriol Lapiedra, Nina Morales, Louie H. Yang, Dario Fernandez-Bellon, Sozos N. Michaelides, Sean T. Giery, Jonah Piovia-Scott, Thomas W. Schoener, Jason J. Kolbe, Jonathan B. Losos
Summary: Foraging decisions have a significant impact on the structure of food webs, as a behavioral shift in a single species can potentially modify resource-flow dynamics of entire ecosystems. Through a field experiment, this study found that semi-arboreal brown anole lizards drastically increased their perch height and reduced consumption of marine-derived food resources in the presence of predatory ground-dwelling curly-tailed lizards. This shift in foraging niche altered the dynamics of resource flow between the oceanic and terrestrial ecosystems, and persisted in the diets of the first-generation offspring. Additionally, female lizards with more risk-taking behaviors consumed more marine prey when predators were present on the islands.