A key issue in animal behaviour is the need to understand variation in behavioural
responses to human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC) such as habitat loss …

Humans have brought about unprecedented changes to environments worldwide. For many
species, behavioral adjustments represent the first response to altered conditions. In this …

Biological communities are shaped by complex interactions between organisms and their
environment as well as interactions with other species. Humans are rapidly changing the …

Interest in individual differences in animal behavioural plasticities has surged in recent
years, but research in this area has been hampered by semantic confusion as different …

Explaining how animals respond to an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge for
evolutionary biologists. Urban environments often present animals with novel problems that …

The alternation of light and dark periods on a daily or seasonal time scale is of utmost
importance for the synchronization of physiological and behavioral processes in the …

Highlights•Anthropogenic noise has changed acoustic landscapes around the globe.•In the
lab, we investigated how elevated noise affects feeding of two fish species.•Both …

Abstract Background Wild boars (Sus scrofa L.) are globally widely distributed, and their
populations have increased in Europe during recent decades. Encounters between humans …

Poor communication between academic researchers and wildlife managers limits
conservation progress and innovation. As a result, input from overlapping fields, such as …

Social interactions are central to most animals and have a fundamental impact upon the
phenotype of an individual. Social behavior (social interactions among conspecifics) …