Ontogenetic variation in site fidelity and homing behaviour of a temperate reef fish

Shima, Jeffrey S.; McNaughtan, Daniel; Geange, Shane W.; Wilkinson, Shaun P.

doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2012.02.020

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“…Previous studies have also shown that site fidelity and homing behavior of fishes can vary with ontogeny (Yoshiyama et al 1992;Shima et al 2012;White and Brown 2013); older fish are more likely to risk the return to a home site across unfamiliar waters, although this is not always the case for all fishes (White and Brown 2013). Our homing results appear to be consistent with this view, but additional studies are needed to empirically test whether larger S. tubifer are actually more successful at homing than smaller fish.…”

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Host preference, site fidelity, and homing behavior of the symbiotically luminous cardinalfish, Siphamia tubifer (Perciformes: Apogonidae)

2014

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Host preference, site fidelity, and homing behavior of the symbiotically luminous cardinalfish, Siphamia tubifer (Perciformes: Apogonidae)

2014

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“…Translocation experiments have been used extensively to improve our understanding of how behavioral processes influence movements of a wide range of species, including mammals (Bowman and Fahrig 2002, Bakker 2006, Smith et al 2011, Lawes et al 2013, temperate and tropical birds (Gobeil and Villard 2002, Ibarra-Macias et al 2011, Vergara et al 2013, reptiles (Stanley 1998, Gruber andHenle 2004), amphibians (Mazerolle andDesrochers 2005, Nowakowski et al 2013), fish (Turgeon et al 2010, Shima et al 2012, and insects (Berggren et al 2002, Soderstrom andHedblom 2007). These experiments involve capturing individuals and releasing them across gradients in habitat loss and/or fragmentation.…”

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Functional connectivity experiments reflect routine movement behavior of a tropical hummingbird species

Volpe

Hadley

Robinson

et al. 2014

Ecological Applications

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Translocation experiments, in which researchers displace animals and then monitor their movements to return home, are commonly used as tools to assess functional connectivity of fragmented landscapes. Such experiments are purported to have important advantages of being time efficient and of standardizing “motivation” to move across individuals. Yet, we lack tests of whether movement behavior of translocated birds reflects natural behavior of unmanipulated birds. We compared the routine movement behavior of a tropical hummingbird, the Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy), to that of experimentally translocated individuals. We tested for differences in site selection patterns during movement at two spatial scales (point and path levels). We also compared movement rates between treatments. Behaviors documented during translocation experiments reflected those observed during routine movements. At the point level, both translocated and non‐translocated birds showed similar levels of preference for mature tropical forest. At the path level, step selection functions showed both translocated and non‐translocated hummingbirds avoiding movement across non‐forested matrix and selecting streams as movement corridors. Movement rates were generally higher during translocation experiments. However, the negative influence of forest cover on movement rates was proportionately similar in translocation and routine movement treatments. We report the first evidence showing that movement behavior of birds during translocation experiments is similar to their natural movement behavior. Therefore, translocation experiments may be reliable tools to address effects of landscape structure on animal movement. We observed consistent selection of landscape elements between translocated and non‐translocated birds, indicating that both routine and translocation movement studies lead to similar conclusions regarding the effect of landscape structure and forest composition on functional connectivity. Our observation that hummingbirds avoid non‐forest matrix and select riparian corridors also provides a potential mechanism for pollen limitation in fragmented tropical forest.

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“…The immigration of individuals to previously occupied habitat patches during the wet‐to‐dry transition—as observed for a single flood cycle here and over multiple flood cycles by Crook et al ()—could potentially also act as a rescue effect (sensu Brown & Kodric‐Brown, ) at the metacommunity level by dampening species turn‐over rates and inter‐annual variation in species abundance, compared to random dispersal (see Figure ). We note, however, that homing behaviour is not exhibited by all fish species and expression of this behaviour can vary across ontogeny and among individuals within a species (Bélangerz & Rodriguez, ; Crook, ; Shima, McNaughtan, Geange, & Wilkinson, ). The spatial scales over which fish move also varies among taxa, with a general tendency for large‐bodied fishes to exhibit higher levels of vagility than small‐bodied fishes (Griffiths, ; Minns, ).…”

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Tracking the resource pulse: Movement responses of fish to dynamic floodplain habitat in a tropical river

Crook

Buckle

Morrongiello

et al. 2019

Journal of Animal Ecology

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Natural river floodplains are among the Earth's most biologically diverse and productive ecosystems but face a range of critical threats due to human disturbance. Understanding the ecological processes that support biodiversity and productivity in floodplain rivers is essential for their future protection and rehabilitation. Fish assemblage structure on tropical river floodplains is widely considered to be driven by dispersal limitation during the wet season and by environmental filtering and interspecific interactions during the dry season. However, the individual‐level movement behaviours (e.g. site attachment, nomadism, homing) that regulate dispersal of fish on floodplains are poorly understood. We combined radiotelemetry and remote sensing to examine the movement behaviour of two large‐bodied fishes (barramundi Lates calcarifer, forktail catfish Neoarius leptaspis) over the flood cycle in a tropical river‐floodplain system in northern Australia to: (a) quantify movement responses in relation to dynamic habitat resources at a landscape scale; and (b) determine the extent of spatial ‘reshuffling’ of individual fish following the wet season. Both species altered their behaviour rapidly in response to changes in the availability and distribution of aquatic habitat, with most individuals undertaking extensive movements (up to ~27 km from the tagging location) on the inundated floodplain during the wet season. Although there was considerable individual variation in movement patterns, overall barramundi distributions closely tracked the extent of floodplain primary productivity, whereas catfish distributions were most closely associated with the extent of flooded area. Most individuals of both species exhibited homing back to previously occupied dry season refugia during the wet‐to‐dry transition, even though other potential refugia were available in closer proximity to wet season activity areas. We postulate that homing behaviour modulates temporal variation in fish assemblage composition and abundance and limits the transfer of aquatic‐derived energy and nutrients into terrestrial food webs by reducing fish mortality on drying floodplains. Our study demonstrates the importance of quantifying individual‐level behaviour across the three stages of dispersal (emigration, inter‐patch movement, immigration) for our understanding of how animal movement influences energetic subsidies and other large‐scale ecosystem processes.

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Ontogenetic variation in site fidelity and homing behaviour of a temperate reef fish

Cited by 27 publications

References 28 publications

Host preference, site fidelity, and homing behavior of the symbiotically luminous cardinalfish, Siphamia tubifer (Perciformes: Apogonidae)

Host preference, site fidelity, and homing behavior of the symbiotically luminous cardinalfish, Siphamia tubifer (Perciformes: Apogonidae)

Functional connectivity experiments reflect routine movement behavior of a tropical hummingbird species

Tracking the resource pulse: Movement responses of fish to dynamic floodplain habitat in a tropical river

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