The inevitability of plant behavior

Cahill, James F.

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“…At a workshop we organized in 2018 in Montreal, behaviour and pluralism were discussed at many different levels of biological organization, from plants and mollusks up to humans and collectives. Whereas behaviour tends to be attributed to organisms that have neuronal systems, the study of plants has recently uncovered ways in which "brainless organisms" may indeed display peculiar forms of behaviours when interacting with their environment, including other plants (Cahill 2019), thereby raising the question whether one or several concepts of behaviour are needed to capture the range of natural phenomena usually labeled "behaviour." Interestingly also, the study of organisms that have some of the simplest neuronal systems now tends to show that behaviour can be understood in extremely detailed ways, even at the level of specific molecular inducers (Farah et al 2017), providing a possible glimpse into reductive explanations of behaviour.…”

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A roadmap to explanatory pluralism: introduction to the topical collection The Biology of Behaviour

Muszynski

Malaterre

2020

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Pluralism is widely appealed to in many areas of philosophy of science, though what is meant by 'pluralism' may profoundly vary. Because explanations of behaviour have been a favoured target for pluralistic theses, the sciences of behaviour offer a rich context in which to further investigate pluralism. This is what the topical collection The Biology of Behaviour: Explanatory pluralism across the life sciences is about. In the present introduction, we briefly review major strands of pluralist theses and their motivations. We highlight three distinct types of pluralisms-type pluralism, fragmentation pluralism and insular pluralism-and introduce the articles of the topical collection.

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A roadmap to explanatory pluralism: introduction to the topical collection The Biology of Behaviour

Muszynski

Malaterre

2020

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“…Many, if not all, of those mechanisms share dependence on tradeoffs associated with animals' adaptive behaviors, and on similar responses by plants (Cahill, 2019; Trewavas, 2009) and other organisms. Joel Brown's classic paper on desert rodent coexistence (Brown, 1989) illustrates the point.…”

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Do animal personalities promote species coexistence?Atest with sympatric boreal rodents

Morris

Palmer

2022

Ecology

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The coexistence of competing species requires density feedbacks that have a larger effect on their own species' population growth than they do on others in the assembly. The feedbacks are often associated with behavioral tradeoffs that enable species to differentially exploit underlying axes of heterogeneity.Conjoining theories of species coexistence with foraging behavior and density-dependent habitat selection reveals that such tradeoffs impinge on invasion probabilities and equilibrium dynamics emerging from species' differences in habitat use. The resulting habitat separation promotes coexistence by reducing the overall interaction among species. Differential habitat selection depends on the behavioral abilities of organisms to identify and exploit the most profitable habitats and resource patches. One might thus expect that each species will evolve behavioral types distinct from those of other potential competitors. Accordingly, we exposed four coexisting species in four genera of boreal rodents to open-field tests. We used principal components (PC) to summarize their behaviors along three independent axes corresponding with clines of exploratory, vigilant, and apprehensive personalities. We confirmed that the axes represented repeatable behaviors (personalities) and assessed differences among species with a general linear model (GLM). The GLM revealed highly distinct differences among species, and between pairs of species, on each PC. Even so, it is difficult to infer the adaptive advantages of personality to the habitat segregation that reduces otherwise high interactions among species. Rather, personalities are best interpreted as co-adaptive behaviors reflecting the complex of morphological, physiological and behavioral attributes that dictate tradeoffs and enable coexistence.

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From dark to darkness, negative phototropism influences the support-tree location of the massive woody climberHydrangea serratifolia(Hydrangeaceae) in a Chilean temperate rainforest

Rodriguez-Quintero

Moreno-Chacón

Carrasco-Urra

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Plant Signaling & Behavior

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The inevitability of plant behavior

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

A roadmap to explanatory pluralism: introduction to the topical collection The Biology of Behaviour

A roadmap to explanatory pluralism: introduction to the topical collection The Biology of Behaviour

Do animal personalities promote species coexistence?Atest with sympatric boreal rodents

From dark to darkness, negative phototropism influences the support-tree location of the massive woody climberHydrangea serratifolia(Hydrangeaceae) in a Chilean temperate rainforest

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