Behaviour shapes environmental variation and selection on learning and plasticity: review of mechanisms and implications

Snell‐Rood, Emilie C.; Steck, Meredith

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.08.007

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“…The same genotype may also generate different movement behaviors either across individuals, depending on how they develop (developmental plasticity [110]) or within the same individual over time (activational plasticity [110]). Environmental variation in particular is viewed as major driver of behavioral plasticity, yet behavior itself can 'construct' how environmental variation is perceived by an individual [111]. Thus, movement itself feeds back to influence the degree of variation experienced by an individual (Fig.…”

Section: Maintenance: What Preserves Movement Variation?mentioning

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Causes and consequences of individual variation in animal movement

2020

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Animal movement comes in a variety of ‘types’ including small foraging movements, larger one-way dispersive movements, seasonally-predictable round-trip migratory movements, and erratic nomadic movements. Although most individuals move at some point throughout their lives, movement patterns can vary widely across individuals within the same species: differing within an individual over time (intra-individual), among individuals in the same population (inter-individual), or among populations (inter-population). Yet, studies of movement (theoretical and empirical alike) more often focus on understanding ‘typical’ movement patterns than understanding variation in movement. Here, I synthesize current knowledge of movement variation (drawing parallels across species and movement types), describing the causes (what factors contribute to individual variation), patterns (what movement variation looks like), consequences (why variation matters), maintenance (why variation persists), implications (for management and conservation), and finally gaps (what pieces we are currently missing). By synthesizing across scales of variation, I span across work on plasticity, personality, and geographic variation. Individual movement can be driven by factors that act at the individual, population, community and ecosystem level and have ramifications at each of these levels. Generally the consequences of movement are less well understood than the causes, in part because the effects of movement variation are often nested, with variation manifesting at the population level, which in turn affects communities and ecosystems. Understanding both cause and consequence is particularly important for predicting when variation begets variation in a positive feedback loop, versus when a negative feedback causes variation to be dampened successively. Finally, maintaining standing variation in movement may be important for facilitating species’ ability to respond to future environmental change.

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Section: Maintenance: What Preserves Movement Variation?mentioning

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“…1, arrows), making disentangling sources of variation a key challenge in understanding movement variation maintenance. Genetic variation in any 'construction' trait (such as movement) is also expected to lead to maintenance of plasticity [111].…”

Section: Maintenance: What Preserves Movement Variation?mentioning

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Causes and consequences of individual variation in animal movement

2020

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“…Nowadays, environmental problems have become a significant problem caused by humans because almost all environmental changes are motivated by human behavior. Namely that unfriendly behavior in the environment extends to the community, to gain personal benefits or pleasures for many members of the community who damage the environment, even though they know the consequences of their actions (Lee, Kim, Kim, & Choi, 2014;Meyer, 2015;Rood & Steck, 2019). Many environmental changes occur due to human behavior that does not manage the environment properly (Byerly et al, 2018;Farrow, Grolleau, & Ibanez, 2017).…”

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The effect of intention to act and knowledge of environmental issues on environmental behavior

Iman

Miarsyah

Sigit

2019

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Intention to act and environmental issues knowledge has been assumed as the two variables which affect people’s environmental behavior. This study aimed at determining the correlations between variables (i.e. intention to act, environmental issues knowledge, and environmental behavior) on biology teachers in State High Schools of Pandeglang Regency. This survey research used quantitative approach. The sample was 51 teachers chosen using simple random sampling. Meanwhile, the population was 61 teachers in State High Schools of Pandeglang Regency. The data gained were analyzed using path analysis. The results showed that environmental knowledge gives direct impact on environmental behavior with coefficient value was 0.472. The same phenomena were also occurred in the intention to act towards the teachers’ environmental behavior (0.508). In addition, the intention to act was directly influenced by environmental knowledge (0.364), while the environmental behavior was indirectly affected by environmental knowledge (0.185). Thus, the findings of this study can be basic information to determine the most proper strategy to cultivate a good environmental behavior.

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“…Numerous variables can cause shifts and divergences in species’ phenotypes. Among these differences, some morphological variations result from adaptation to specific habitats and behaviours [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]; others are the results of indirect pressures, such as competition and niche segregation [ 5 , 6 , 7 ], especially in areas of sympatry [ 8 , 9 ]. Some other morphological variations are the results of non-directional drift, as illustrated in some cases of the island effect [ 10 , 11 , 12 ].…”

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Disentangling the Impacts of Speciation, Sympatry and the Island Effect on the Morphology of Seven Hynobius sp. Salamanders

Borzée

Min

2021

Animals

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Closely related individuals from different areas can see their morphologies change based on differences between clades, but also ecological variables such as the island effect or sympatry. This is the case of salamanders, which have adapted to a broad range of ecological niches, ranging from underground dwellers in xeric landscape to tropical arboreal habitats. On the Korean Peninsula, salamanders from the Hynobius clade are widespread on the mainland and islands, with several partially sympatric clades and candidate species. Currently, seven lineages have been identified based on mtDNA, four of them matching named species and three others for which the species status remains untested. While the morphology of Korean Hynobius is known to be variable between genetically segregated clades, we hypothesise that (1) the candidate species are morphologically different, and that (2) the island effect and (3) the sympatric status have significant impacts on the morphology of individuals within the genus. Here we measured 329 Hynobius salamanders from all seven clades, in areas of sympatry and allopatry, and on islands and on the mainland (Graphical Abstract A). We determined that the island effect had a significant impact on the morphology of the genus, with mainland individuals generally displaying a broader range of morphology than islandic individuals (Graphical Abstract B). We also determined that sympatry had an impact on morphology, with the sizes of individuals from clades in sympatric areas diverging from each other (Graphical Abstract C). Finally, we demonstrated that all seven clades have significantly different morphologies, and we described the three candidate species that had already been isolated based on mtDNA and microsatellite data: Hynobius notialis sp. nov., Hynobius geojeensis sp. nov. and Hynobius perplicatus sp. nov. We conclude that looking at morphology alone would be misleading about the true diversity of Hynobius species, and species in general, because of the island and patry effects.

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Behaviour shapes environmental variation and selection on learning and plasticity: review of mechanisms and implications

Cited by 29 publications

References 165 publications

Causes and consequences of individual variation in animal movement

Causes and consequences of individual variation in animal movement

The effect of intention to act and knowledge of environmental issues on environmental behavior

Disentangling the Impacts of Speciation, Sympatry and the Island Effect on the Morphology of Seven Hynobius sp. Salamanders

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