Ecological impacts of human‐induced animal behaviour change

MW Wilson, AD Ridlon, KM Gaynor, SD Gaines… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of literature has documented myriad effects of human activities on animal
behaviour, yet the ultimate ecological consequences of these behavioural shifts remain …

Mixed company: a framework for understanding the composition and organization of mixed‐species animal groups

E Goodale, H Sridhar, KE Sieving, P Bangal… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mixed‐species animal groups (MSGs) are widely acknowledged to increase predator
avoidance and foraging efficiency, among other benefits, and thereby increase participants' …

Social information links individual behavior to population and community dynamics

MA Gil, AM Hein, O Spiegel, ML Baskett… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
When individual animals make decisions, they routinely use information produced
intentionally or unintentionally by other individuals. Despite its prevalence and established …

Multiyear social stability and social information use in reef sharks with diel fission–fusion dynamics

YP Papastamatiou, TW Bodey… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animals across vertebrate taxa form social communities and often exist as fission–fusion
groups. Central place foragers (CPF) may form groups from which they will predictably …

Movement with meaning: integrating information into meta‐ecology

CJ Little, M Rizzuto, TM Luhring, JD Monk, RJ Nowicki… - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fluxes of matter, energy and information over space and time contribute to ecosystems'
functioning and stability. The meta‐ecosystem framework addresses the dynamics of …

Friendship across species borders: factors that facilitate and constrain heterospecific sociality

H Sridhar, V Guttal - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Our understanding of animal sociality is based almost entirely on single-species sociality.
Heterospecific sociality, although documented in numerous taxa and contexts, remains at …

Fast behavioral feedbacks make ecosystems sensitive to pace and not just magnitude of anthropogenic environmental change

MA Gil, ML Baskett, SB Munch… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Anthropogenic environmental change is altering the behavior of animals in ecosystems
around the world. Although behavior typically occurs on much faster timescales than …

Harnessing knowledge of animal behavior to improve habitat restoration outcomes

R Hale, DT Blumstein, R Mac Nally, SE Swearer - Ecosphere, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Restoring degraded habitat to increase biodiversity is a global challenge. While habitat
restoration for animals should lead to self‐sustaining breeding populations of target species …

Interspecific sociality alters the colonization and extinction rates of birds on subtropical reservoir islands

AE Martínez, X Si, L Zhou, D Zeng… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Island biogeography theory has proved a robust approach to predicting island biodiversity
on the assumption of species equivalency. However, species differ in their grouping …

Shared predators between primate groups and mixed species bird flocks: the potential for forest‐wide eavesdropping networks

AE Martínez, E Parra, JP Gomez, VT Vredenburg - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A basic tenet of animal behavior is that animal groupings (eg schools of fishes or flocks of
birds) are widely influenced by predators. Many studies have focused on communication …