Animal behavior: an essential component of invasion biology

Holway, David A.; Suarez, Andrew V.

doi:10.1016/s0169-5347(99)01636-5

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“…Invasive social insects, especially vespids, can deeply affect their environments (Beggs et al., 2011; Bradshaw et al., 2016), and their impact is obviously related to foraging range. How animals use their environment and their movements is key parameters in biological invasion (Holway & Suarez, 1999), and such parameters should be implanted in future impact models. The development of the RFID techniques to study hornets will provide a very useful tool for comparing activity ranges of workers in different ecological conditions.…”

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Activity rhythm and action range of workers of the invasive hornet predator of honeybees Vespa velutina, measured by radio frequency identification tags

Poidatz

Monceau

Bonnard

et al. 2018

Ecology and Evolution

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In social insects, the activity rhythm of foragers and their action range determinate the activity of the colony. In vespids, which are mostly predators, the foraging range of workers determines their maximum predation pressure round the nest. One of these species, Vespa velutina, a recently invasive species introduced into Europe, exerts a strong predation on honeybees at the hive. Therefore, the definition of its activity rhythm and spatial range of predation is of primary importance. Using radio frequency identification tags (RFID), two experiments were carried out to (a) determine their return ability (called homing) in releasing 318 individuals at different distance from their colony and (b) monitor their foraging activity rhythm and the duration of their flights based on 71 individuals followed 24 hr/24 during 2 months. The homing ability of V. velutina was evaluated to be up to 5,000 m and was not affected by the cardinal orientation of release point. The lag time to return to the nest increased with the distance of release. Most of the flight activity took place between 07:00 a.m. and 08:00 p.m., hornets doing principally short flights of less than an hour. Foraging range was thus estimated ca. 1,000 m around the nest. This study of V. velutina assisted by RFID tags provides for the first time a baseline for its potential foraging distance that increase our knowledge of this species to (a) refine more accurately models for risk assessment and (b) define security perimeter for early detection of predation on invasion front.

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confidence: 99%

“…To date, the action range of V. velutina is still unknown, while it is of first importance for the monitoring and the potential management of invasive species (Holway & Suarez, 1999). This information could help finding colonies and give a scale for potential control methods application.…”

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confidence: 99%

Activity rhythm and action range of workers of the invasive hornet predator of honeybees Vespa velutina, measured by radio frequency identification tags

Poidatz

Monceau

Bonnard

et al. 2018

Ecology and Evolution

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“…Body size shifts were nevertheless shown to occur rapidly (that is, from a few decades up to several thousands of years) following colonisation in mammals (Millien, 2006), birds (Mathys and Lockwood, 2011) and reptiles (Aubret and Shine, 2007;Herrel et al, 2008). Further, although many forms of plastic responses, including altered behaviours, feeding strategies and defence mechanisms, were invoked in the successful colonisation of new environments (including islands; Ehrlich, 1989;Stearns, 1989;Via et al, 1995;Holway and Suarez, 1999;Pigliucci and Murren, 2003;West-Eberhard, 2003;Aubret et al, 2004a, b;Yeh and Price, 2004;Fitzpatrick, 2012), the idea that adaptive plasticity may also alter rates of evolution remains very much debated, perhaps because empirical support is scarce (Hinton and Nowlan, 1987;Ancel, 2000;Price et al, 2003;Yeh and Price, 2004;Borenstein et al, 2006;Anderson et al, 2012).…”

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Island colonisation and the evolutionary rates of body size in insular neonate snakes

Aubret

2014

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Island colonisation by animal populations is often associated with dramatic shifts in body size. However, little is known about the rates at which these evolutionary shifts occur, under what precise selective pressures and the putative role played by adaptive plasticity on driving such changes. Isolation time played a significant role in the evolution of body size in island Tiger snake populations, where adaptive phenotypic plasticity followed by genetic assimilation fine-tuned neonate body and head size (hence swallowing performance) to prey size. Here I show that in long isolated islands (46000 years old) and mainland populations, neonate body mass and snout-vent length are tightly correlated with the average prey body mass available at each site. Regression line equations were used to calculate body size values to match prey size in four recently isolated populations of Tiger snakes. Rates of evolution in body mass and snout-vent length, calculated for seven island snake populations, were significantly correlated with isolation time. Finally, rates of evolution in body mass per generation were significantly correlated with levels of plasticity in head growth rates. This study shows that body size evolution occurs at a faster pace in recently isolated populations and suggests that the level of adaptive plasticity for swallowing abilities may correlate with rates of body mass evolution. I hypothesise that, in the early stages of colonisation, adaptive plasticity and directional selection may combine and generate accelerated evolution towards an 'optimal' phenotype.

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“…boldness, aggression, response to novelty) may be especially important in novel environments [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Different selection pressures along a range expansion could select for different levels of these traits between the site of introduction and the edge of the range.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Exploratory behaviour and stressor hyper-responsiveness facilitate range expansion of an introduced songbird

2012

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Global anthropogenic changes are occurring at an unprecedented rate; one change, human-facilitated introduction of species outside their native range, has had significant ecological and economic impacts. Surprisingly, what traits facilitate range expansions post-introduction is relatively unknown. This information could help predict future expansions of introduced species as well as native species shifting their ranges as climate conditions change. Here, we asked whether specific behavioural and physiological traits were important in the ongoing expansion of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) across Kenya. We predicted that birds at the site of initial introduction (Mombasa, introduced approx. 1950) would behave and regulate corticosterone, a stress hormone, differently than birds at the range edge (Kakamega, approx. 885 km from Mombasa; colonized within the last 5 years). Specifically, we predicted greater exploratory behaviour and stronger corticosterone response to stressors in birds at the range edge, which may facilitate the identification, resolution and memory of stressors. Indeed, we found that distance from Mombasa (a proxy for population age) was a strong predictor of both exploratory behaviour and corticosterone release in response to restraint (but only while birds were breeding). These results suggest that certain behavioural and neuroendocrine traits may influence the ability of species to colonize novel habitats.

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Animal behavior: an essential component of invasion biology

Cited by 381 publications

References 36 publications

Activity rhythm and action range of workers of the invasive hornet predator of honeybees Vespa velutina, measured by radio frequency identification tags

Activity rhythm and action range of workers of the invasive hornet predator of honeybees Vespa velutina, measured by radio frequency identification tags

Island colonisation and the evolutionary rates of body size in insular neonate snakes

Exploratory behaviour and stressor hyper-responsiveness facilitate range expansion of an introduced songbird

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