From interference to predation: type and effects of direct interspecific interactions of small mammals

Liesenjohann, Monique; Liesenjohann, Thilo; Trebatická, Lenka; Haapakoski, Marko; Sundell, Janne; Ylönen, Hannu; Eccard, Jana A.

doi:10.1007/s00265-011-1217-z

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“…The mechanisms whereby invasive species impact or replace indigenous species are many and varied and the outcome may be subtle (King et al 2011). There may be direct interspecific competition for limited resources or interference competition (Probert and Litvaitis 1996, Bohn et al 2008, Stokes et al 2009Leisenjohann et al 2011). For example, it is possible that similarity in diet provides a basis for competition for food resources between the bank vole and wood mouse, and the greater white-toothed shrew and pygmy shrew (Watts 1968;Hansson 1971;Fons 1972;Grainger and Fairley 1978;Holisova and Obrtel 1980;Bever 1983;Meharg et al 1990).…”

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“…More pertinently, with reference to invasional meltdown, the literature provides no indication whether the presence of the bank vole and greater white-toothed shrew together should have any greater impact on the wood mouse and/or pygmy shrew than either in isolation. However, Leisenjohann et al (2011) presented evidence from experimental manipulations in which the common shrew Sorex araneus Linnaeus 1758 effected changes in the behaviour of the bank vole through predation of pups and competitive interference dependent on environmental conditions.…”

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‘Invasional meltdown’: evidence for unexpected consequences and cumulative impacts of multispecies invasions

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Empirical support for 'invasional meltdown', where the presence of one invading species facilitates another and compounds negative impacts on indigenous species, is equivocal with few convincing studies. In Ireland, the bank vole was introduced 80 years ago and now occupies a third of the island. The greater white-toothed shrew arrived more recently within the invasive range of the bank vole. We surveyed the abundance of both invasive species and two indigenous species, the wood mouse and pygmy shrew, throughout their respective ranges. The negative effects of invasive on indigenous species were strong and cumulative bringing about species replacement. The greater white-toothed shrew, the second invader, had a positive and synergistic effect on the abundance of the bank vole, the first invader, but a negative and compounding effect on the abundance of the wood mouse and occurrence of the pygmy shrew. The gradual replacement of the wood mouse by the bank vole decreased with distance from the point of the bank vole's introduction whilst no pygmy shrews were captured where both invasive species were present. Such interactions may not be unique to invasions but characteristic of all multispecies communities. Small mammals are central in terrestrial food webs and compositional changes to this community in Ireland are likely to reverberate throughout the ecosystem. Vegetation composition and structure, invertebrate communities and the productivity of avian and mammalian predators are likely to be affected. Control of these invasive species may only be effected through landscape and habitat management.

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‘Invasional meltdown’: evidence for unexpected consequences and cumulative impacts of multispecies invasions

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“…In the absence of interference, the smaller species, which can forage more efficiently at lower resource levels, would be expected to drive the larger species extinct [60,61]. In general, avoidance of aggressive interactions is common in mammal communities and might help stabilize them [5,62,63].Interspecific Communication and Competitive Mimicry Behavioral interference can shape signal evolution and signaling behavior in many ways. At a community level, signal design and the timing of signal production can be partitioned to reduce interference, such as when the acoustic mating signals and responses of anurans are differentiated to avoid interactions between heterospecifics [64,65].…”

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Causes and Consequences of Behavioral Interference between Species

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Peiman

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Behavioral interference between species, such as territorial aggression, courtship, and mating, is widespread in animals. While aggressive and reproductive forms of interspecific interference have generally been studied separately, their many parallels and connections warrant a unified conceptual approach. Substantial evidence exists that aggressive and reproductive interference have pervasive effects on species coexistence, range limits, and evolutionary processes, including divergent and convergent forms of character displacement. Alien species invasions and climate change-induced range shifts result in novel interspecific interactions, heightening the importance of predicting the consequences of species interactions, and behavioral interference is a fundamental but neglected part of the equation. Here, we outline priorities for further theoretical and empirical research on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of behavioral interference. Interspecific Aggression and Reproductive InterferenceFew subjects in animal behavior have attracted more attention than aggression and sex, yet research tends to stop at species boundaries even when the behaviors themselves do not. Aggressive and sexual interactions between species are surprisingly common and share many parallels in their causes and ecological and evolutionary effects [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Both types of behavioral interference (Box 1) have been hypothesized to: (i) arise as a byproduct of intraspecific interactions (Box 2); (ii) cause local extinction as well as temporal and spatial habitat partitioning; (iii) prevent species from coexisting that otherwise would be expected to coexist; (iv) enable coexistence between species that otherwise would not be expected to coexist; (v) promote or prevent species range shifts and the spread of invasive species; (vi) cause sympatric species to diverge or converge through character displacement processes; (vii) cause populations within a species to diverge from each other due to character displacement in areas of sympatry; and (viii) contribute to reproductive isolation and speciation ( Figure 1).Despite their connections, aggressive interference and reproductive interference (see Glossary) have largely been studied by different researchers in relation to different theoretical frameworks [2,4,7] and in different study systems [3], even though many closely related species interfere with each other in both ways (see Table S1 in [8]). We do not believe that these two categories of interspecific interactions should be synonymized, because this would obscure important differences between them. Instead, we propose that their similarities and interrelationships merit a common conceptual framework, which we introduce here ( Figure 1). TrendsAggressive and reproductive forms of behavioral interference between species are widespread in animals and share many parallels in their underlying causes and their ecological and evolutionary effects.Behavioral interference can determine whether species coexist and, thus, affects speci...

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“…The presence of conspecifics or heterospecifics can both reduce home 213,301 . For example, Bank voles changed their home range size and activity as a response to the presence of Common shrews (Sorex araneus) 302 . Depending on the situation, the presence of competitors can be as important determining home range size as the availability of food 303 .…”

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From interference to predation: type and effects of direct interspecific interactions of small mammals

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‘Invasional meltdown’: evidence for unexpected consequences and cumulative impacts of multispecies invasions

‘Invasional meltdown’: evidence for unexpected consequences and cumulative impacts of multispecies invasions

Causes and Consequences of Behavioral Interference between Species

The wild life of tick-borne pathogens

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