24 research outputs found
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution
Animal behaviour is remarkably sensitive to disruption by chemical pollution, with widespread implications for ecological and evolutionary processes in contaminated wildlife populations. However, conventional approaches applied to study the impacts of chemical pollutants on wildlife behaviour seldom address the complexity of natural environments in which contamination occurs. The aim of this review is to guide the rapidly developing field of behavioural ecotoxicology towards increased environmental realism, ecological complexity, and mechanistic understanding. We identify research areas in ecology that to date have been largely overlooked within behavioural ecotoxicology but which promise to yield valuable insights, including within- and among-individual variation, social networks and collective behaviour, and multi-stressor interactions. Further, we feature methodological and technological innovations that enable the collection of data on pollutant-induced behavioural changes at an unprecedented resolution and scale in the laboratory and the field. In an era of rapid environmental change, there is an urgent need to advance our understanding of the real-world impacts of chemical pollution on wildlife behaviour. This review therefore provides a roadmap of the major outstanding questions in behavioural ecotoxicology and highlights the need for increased cross-talk with other disciplines in order to find the answers
A comparative assessment of potential components of partial disease resistance to <i>Fusarium</i> head blight detected in a detached leaf assay of wheat, barley and oats.
Brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) social interactions and their implications for bovine tuberculosis epidemiology
Psychometric Properties of the Foreign Language Attitudes and Perceptions Survey for College Students
Goal Directed Adaptive Behavior in Second-Order Neural Networks: The MAXSON family of architectures
Genome diversity and gene haplotypes in the grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.), as revealed by single nucleotide polymorphisms
CD4+, CD8+, and CD4- CD8- T Cells in CSF and Blood of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Tension Headache
Relations Between Social Problem Solving and Indicators of Interpersonal and Family Well-Being Among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong
emotional well-being, empathy, family functioning, indicators of quality of life, social problem solving,