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Competition for food in 2 populations of a wild-caught fish

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Current Zoology 2018年第5期64卷 615-622页

作者： Pierre J.C. CHUARD grant e. BROWN James W.A. grant Research School of Biology The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Departmentof Biology Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal Quebec Canada H4B 1R6

Aggressive behavior when competing for resources is expected to increase as the ratio of competitors-to-resource ratio （CRR） units increases. Females are expected to be more aggressive than males when competing for food when body size is more strongly related to reproductive suc- cess in females than in males, whereas aggression is predicted to decrease under high ambient predation risk by natural selection. Under the risk allocation model, however, individuals under high ambient predation risk are expected to be more aggressive, and forage more in the absence of imminent risk than their low risk counterparts. An interaction between adult sex ratio （i.e., adult males/females）, ambient predation risk （high vs. low）, and sex on intrasexual competition for mates in Trinidadian guppies Poecilia reticulata has been shown. The interaction suggested an increase in aggression rates as CRR increased, except for males from the high predation population. To compare the patterns of competition for food versus mates, we replicated this study by using food patches. We allowed 4 male or 4 female guppies from high and low predation populations to com- pete for 5, 3, or 1 food patches. The foraging rate was higher in a high rather than low ambient pre- dation risk population. Surprisingly, CRR, sex, and population of origin had no effect on aggression rates. Despite other environmental differences between the 2 populations, the effect of ambient predation risk may be a likely explanation for differences in foraging rates. These results highlight the importance for individuals to secure food despite the cost of competition and predation.

关键词： aggression competitor-to-resource ratio foraging Poecifia reticulata population differences predation risk sex

Olfaction and reaction: The role of olfactory and hypothalamic investment in the antipredator responses to chemical alarm cues by northern redbelly dace

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Current Zoology 2023年第6期69卷 738-746页

作者： Brendan J.Joyce grant e.Brown Department of Biology Concordia UniversityMontrealQuebecCanada

Neuroplasticity enables teleosts to promote or downregulate the growth of their brains *** compensate for the effects of predation pressure,teleosts may alter their brain morphology and behavioral responses to mitigate its impact on individual ***-predation environ-ments often promote specific patterns of brain growth and produce bolder and more proactive *** to the expense of maintaining neural tissue,relative size indicates the regions most relied *** northern redbelly dace Chrosomus eos,as little as 2 weeks of elevated predation pressure,resulted in increased investment in their olfactory bulbs and optic tecta,while the imposition of captivity produced smaller,less symmetric *** together,these results suggest that an individual could potentially become better able to detect a threat,and simultaneously less inclined to react to it,making the impact of either change in isolation is difficult to ***,we compared interindividual variation in gross brain morphology,risk-taking tactics in a novel arena(shy-bold personality),and responding to olfactory cues(proactive/reac-tive stress-coping style).We hypothesized that olfactory investment would positively correlate with response intensity to predator cue concen-tration and respond across a wider range of cue concentrations,while hypothalamus size would correlate with shyness and *** to heightened risk produced more bold/proactive individuals,with larger olfactory bulbs and smaller ***,the direction of the correlation between hypothalamus size and behavior varied by treatment,and olfactory investment only corresponded with response intensity amongst proactive *** findings illustrate the potential pitfalls of relating gross brain morphology to complex behavior and suggest that stress-coping style is a relevant consideration in future studies.

关键词： boldness brainmorphology neuroplasticity predation proactivity stress-coping style

Disturbance cue communication is shaped by emitter diet and receiver background risk in Trinidadian guppies

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Current Zoology 2022年第4期68卷 433-440页

作者： Jack A Goldman Adam L Crane Laurence e A Feyten emily Collins grant e Brown Department of Biology Concordia University7141 Sherbrooke Street WestMontrealQCCanada H4B 1R6

In animal communication systems,individuals that detect a cue(i.e.,“receivers”)are often influenced by characteristics of the cue *** instance,in many species,receivers avoid chemical cues that are released by emitters experiencing *** chemical“disturbance cues”appear to benefit receivers by warning them about nearby danger,such as a predator’s *** the active ingredients in disturbance cues have been largely unexplored,by-products of metabolized protein are thought to play a role for some *** so,the content(quality)and volume(quantity)of the emitter’s diet should affect their disturbance cues,thus altering how receivers perceive the cues and *** Poecilia reticulata are a species known to discriminate among disturbance cues from different types of donors,but dietary variation has yet to be *** this study,we found evidence that diet quality and quantity can affect disturbance cues released by guppy emitters(i.e.,experimental“donors”).Receivers discriminated between donor cue treatments,responding more strongly to cues from donors fed a protein-rich bloodworm diet(experiment 1),as well as an overall larger diet(experiment 2).We also found that receivers exposed to higher background risk were more sensitive to disturbance cue variation,with the strongest avoidance responses displayed by high-risk receivers toward disturbance cues from donors fed the high-quality ***,diet,and perhaps protein specifically,affects either the concentration or composition of disturbance cues released by *** variation may be important in information signaling in social species like the guppy.

关键词： alarm cues chemical cues diet quality diet quantity protein

Compensatory foraging in Trinidadian guppies： effects of acute and chronic predation threats

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Current Zoology 2014年第3期60卷 323-332页

作者： Chris K. eLVIDGe Indar RAMNARINe grant e. BROWN Department of Biology Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke St West Montreal QC H4B 1R6 Canada Department of Life Sciences University of the West Indies St Augustine Trinidad and Tobago

In response to acute predation threats, prey may sacrifice foraging opportunities in favour of increased predator avoidance. Under conditions of high or frequent predation risk, such tradeoffs may lead to reduced fitness. Here, we test the pre diction that prey reduce the costs associated with lost opportunities following acute predation threats by exhibiting shortterm compensatory foraging responses. Under seminatural conditions, we exposed female guppies Poecilia reticulate from high and low predation risk sites to one of three levels of acute predation threat （high, intermediate or low concentrations of conspecific alarm cues）. Our results confirm previous reports, demonstrating that guppies from a high predation site were consistently ＇bolder＇（shorter escape latencies） and exhibited graded threatsensitive responses to different simulated threat levels while those from the low predation site were ＇shyer＇ and exhibited nongraded responses. Most importantly, we found that when guppies from low predation sites resumed foraging, they did so at rates significantly lower than baseline rates. However, guppies from high preda tion sites resumed foraging either at rates equal to baseline （in response to low or intemaediate risk stimuli） or significantly in creased relative to baseline rates （in response to high risk stimuli）. Together, these results highlight a complex compensatory be havioral mechanism that may allow prey to reduce the longterm costs associated with predator avoidance [Current Zoology 60 （3）： 323-332, 2014 ].

关键词： Compensatory behaviour Predator-prey interactions Personality Threat-sensitivity Trade-offs

Interactive effects of reproductive assets and ambient predation risk on the threat-sensitive decisions of Trinidadian guppies

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Current Zoology 2016年第3期62卷 221-226页

作者： Jemma KATWAROO-ANDeRSeN Chris K. eLVIDGe Indar RAMNARINe grant e. BROWN Department of Biology Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal QC H4B 1R6 Canada Department of Life Sciences University of the West Indies St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago

Threat-sensitive behavioral trade-offs allow prey animals to balance the conflicting demands of successful predator detection and avoidance and a suite of fitness-related activities such as forag- ing, mating, and territorial defense. Here, we test the hypothesis that background predation level and reproductive status interact to determine the form and intensity of threat-sensitive behavioral decisions of wild-caught female Trinidadian guppies Poecilia reticulata. Gravid and nongravid gup- pies collected from high- and low-predation pressure populations were exposed to serial dilutions of conspecific chemical alarm cues. Our results demonstrate that there was ＇no effect of reproduct- ive status on the response of females originating from a low-predation population, with both gravid and nongravid guppies exhibiting strong anti-predator responses to the lowest concentration of alarm cues tested. Increasing cue concentrations did not result in increases in response intensity. Conversely, we found a significant effect of reproductive status among guppies from a high- predation population. Nongravid females from the high-predation population exhibited a strong graded （proportional） response to increasing concentrations of alarm cue. Gravid females from the same high-predation population, however, shifted to a nongraded response. Together, these re- sults demonstrate that accrued reproductive assets influence the threat-sensitive behavioral deci- sions of prey, but only under conditions of high-ambient predation risk.

关键词： asset protection antipredator behavior fitness trade-offs ecological uncertainty chemical alarm cues.

Local predation risk shapes spatial and foraging neophobia patterns in Trinidadian guppies

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Current Zoology 2016年第5期62卷 457-462页

作者： Chris K. eLVIDGe Pierre J.C. CHUARD grant e. BROWN Department of Biology Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal QC H4B 1R6 Canada

The ＂dangerous niche＂ hypothesis posits that neophobia functions to reduce the cost of habitat use among animals exposed to unknown risks. For example, more dangerous foraging or higher competi- tion may lead to increased spatial neophobia. Likewise, elevated ambient predation threats have been shown to induce phenotypically plastic neophobic predator avoidance. In both cases, neophobia is argued to reduce the cost of living associated with ecological uncertainty. Here, we test the hypothesis that ambient predation shapes both neophobic predator avoidance and spatial and foraging neophobia in Trinidadian guppies. Guppies were exposed to a novel foraging arena paired with a known cue （conspecific alarm cue）, a novel cue （lemon odor）, or a stream water control in three streams differing in ambient predation risk. We demonstrate that guppies from a high-predation-risk stream exhibited risk-averse foraging patterns regardless of the chemical stimulus presented （high spatial neophobia） and that those from a low-predation-risk stream were only risk-averse when the foraging arenas were paired with conspecific alarm cue （lower spatial neophobia）. Those tested in the intermediate- predation-risk stream were consistently intermediate to the high-risk vs. low-risk populations. Our study suggests that ambient predation risk shapes both neophobic predator avoidance and space-use pat- terns and that neophobia may function as a ＂generalized＂ response to ecological uncertainty.

关键词： phenotypic plasticity predator recognition foraging predator recognition predator-prey interactions Trinidadian guppies.

Sender and receiver experience alters the response of fish to disturbance cues

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Current Zoology 2020年第3期66卷 255-261页

作者： Jack A.GOLDMAN Laurence e.A.FeYTeN Indar W.RAMNARINe grant e.BROWN Department of Biology Concordia University7141 Sherbrooke St.WestMontrealQCH4B 1R6Canada Department of Lifte Sciences University of the West IndiesSt.AugustineTrinidad and Tobago

Predation is a pervasive selection pressure,shaping morphological,physiological,and behavioral phenotypes of prey *** studies have begun to examine how the effects of individual experience with predation risk shapes the use of publicly available risk assessment ***,we investigated the effects of prior predation risk experience on disturbance cue production and use by Trinidadian guppies Poecilia reticulata under laboratory *** our first experiment,we demonstrate that the response of guppies from a high predation population(Lopinot River)was dependent upon the source of disturbance cue senders(high *** predation populations).However,guppies collected from a low predation site(Upper Aripo River)exhibited similar responses to disturbance cues,regardless of the sender *** our second experiment,we used laboratory strain guppies exposed to high versus low background risk *** results show an analogous response patterns as shown for our first *** exposed to high background risk conditions exhibited stronger responses to the disturbance cues collected from senders exposed to high(***)risk conditions and guppies exposed to low risk conditions were not influenced by sender ***,our results suggest that experience with background predation risk significantly impacts both the production of and response to disturbance cues in guppies.

关键词： disturbance cues ecology of information perceived risk predator-prey interactions Trinidadian guppy

Predation risk assessment based on uncertain information: interacting effects of known and unknown cues

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Current Zoology 2019年第1期65卷 75-76页

作者： Laurence e. A. Feyten ebony e. M. Demers Indar W. Ramnarine grant e. Brown Department of Biology Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke Streeet West Montreal Quebec Canada H4B 1R6 Department of Life Sciences University of the West Indies St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago

Prey use reliable public information in order to assess local habitat condirions such as predation risks, competitive interactions, and foraging opportunities (Dall et al. 2005), allowing for context appropriate behavioral decisions. However, public information can often differ widely in reliability (Feyten and Brown 2018), increasing the potential costs associated with behavioral decision making (Dall et al. 2005). The reliability of public information is expected to decrease with in creased un certainty of environmental conditio ns (Koops 2004;Dall et al. 2005), where ecological uncertainty is the ambiguity about the current state of the environment due to imperfect or incomplete information (Dall et al. 2005;Munoz and Blumstein 2012;Feyten and Brown 2018).

关键词： Prey environmental conditio

Disturbance cues in freshwater prey fishes： Does urea function as an ＇early warning cue＇ in juvenile convict cichlids and rainbow trout？

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Current Zoology 2012年第2期58卷 250-259页

作者： grant e. BROWN Christopher D. JACKSON Patrick H. MALKA elisa JACQUeS Marc-Andre COUTURIeR Department of Biology Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal Quebec H4B 1R6 CANADA

Freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate prey species commonly rely on chemosensory information, including non-injury released disturbance cues, to assess local predation threats. We conducted laboratory studies to （1） determine if urea can function as a disturbance cue in juvenile convict cichlids and rainbow trout and （2） determine if the background level of urea influences the behavioral response to a subsequent pulse of urea （＇background noise＇ hypothesis）. In the first series of trials, juve- nile cichlids and trout were exposed to urea at varying concentrations （0 to 0.5 mg L-1 for cichlids and 0 to 1.0 mg L1 for trout）. Our results suggest that both cichilds and trout exhibited functionally similar responses to urea and conspecific disturbance cues and that increasing the concentration of urea results in an increase intensity of antipredator behaviour. In the second series of trials, we pre-exposed cichlids or trout to intermediate or high concentrations of urea （or a distilled water control） and then tested for the response to a second pulse of urea at at intermediate or high concentrations （versus a distilled water control）. Our results demon- strate that pre-exposure to urea reduces or eliminates the response to a second pulse of urea, supporting the background noise hy- pothesis. Together, our results suggest that pulses of urea, released by disturbed or stressed individuals, may function as an early warning signal in freshwater prey species

关键词： Disturbance cue Metabolic wastes Chemosensory risk assessment Predator-prey interactions Convict cichlids Rainbow trout