The effect of natal experience on habitat preferences

Davis, Jeremy M.

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2004.04.006

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“…Likewise, in species with sex‐biased natal dispersal, our framework would predict that the dispersing sex should have a higher threshold to respond to maternal stress compared to the philopatric sex, given the reliability of the information about the future environment is lower in the dispersing sex (de Fraipont et al., 2000; Meylan & Clobert, 2005). This idea can be expanded to species with natal dispersal in general, and interestingly, to natal habitat preference induction, where dispersing individuals will select habitats that are most similar to their natal habitat (Davis & Stamps, 2004). This phenomenon would increase the match between the maternal and offspring environment and potentially reduce the cost of errors in offspring phenotype response.…”

Section: Predicting the Relative Strength Of Vertebrate Maternal‐strementioning

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Error management theory and the adaptive significance of transgenerational maternal‐stress effects on offspring phenotype

Sheriff

Dantzer

Love

et al. 2018

Ecology and Evolution

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It is well established that circulating maternal stress hormones (glucocorticoids, GCs) can alter offspring phenotype. There is also a growing body of empirical work, within ecology and evolution, indicating that maternal GCs link the environment experienced by the mother during gestation with changes in offspring phenotype. These changes are considered to be adaptive if the maternal environment matches the offspring's environment and maladaptive if it does not. While these ideas are conceptually sound, we lack a testable framework that can be used to investigate the fitness costs and benefits of altered offspring phenotypes across relevant future environments. We present error management theory as the foundation for a framework that can be used to assess the adaptive potential of maternal stress hormones on offspring phenotype across relevant postnatal scenarios. To encourage rigorous testing of our framework, we provide field‐testable hypotheses regarding the potential adaptive role of maternal stress across a diverse array of taxa and life histories, as well as suggestions regarding how our framework might provide insight into past, present, and future research. This perspective provides an informed lens through which to design and interpret experiments on the effects of maternal stress, provides a framework for predicting and testing variation in maternal stress across and within taxa, and also highlights how rapid environmental change that induces maternal stress may lead to evolutionary traps.

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Section: Predicting the Relative Strength Of Vertebrate Maternal‐strementioning

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Error management theory and the adaptive significance of transgenerational maternal‐stress effects on offspring phenotype

Sheriff

Dantzer

Love

et al. 2018

Ecology and Evolution

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“…Experimental and empirical studies on a diverse array of animals support natal habitat-based differentiation (Stamps 2001;Davis & Stamps 2004), and some observations support natal habitat-based dispersal, differentiation and fragmentation also in coyotes, a close relative of the grey wolf (Sacks et al 2005). Whereas random dispersal between different types of habitat will produce gene flow that limits local adaptation (Lenormand 2002), the combination of reduced gene flow and local adaptation facilitated by natal habitat-based dispersal might lead eventually to speciation (Sorenson et al 2003).…”

Section: Prey-mediated Differentiation Of Tundra/taiga and Boreal Conmentioning

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Differentiation of tundra/taiga and boreal coniferous forest wolves: genetics, coat colour and association with migratory caribou

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The grey wolf has one of the largest historic distributions of any terrestrial mammal and can disperse over great distances across imposing topographic barriers. As a result, geographical distance and physical obstacles to dispersal may not be consequential factors in the evolutionary divergence of wolf populations. However, recent studies suggest ecological features can constrain gene flow. We tested whether wolf-prey associations in uninterrupted tundra and forested regions of Canada explained differences in migratory behaviour, genetics, and coat colour of wolves. Satellite-telemetry data demonstrated that tundra wolves (n = 19) migrate annually with caribou (« = 19) from denning areas in the tundra to wintering areas south of the treeline. In contrast, nearby boreal coniferous forest wolves are territorial and associated year round with resident prey. Spatially explicit analysis of 14 autosomal microsatellite loci (n = 404 individuals) found two genetic clusters corresponding to tundra vs. boreal coniferous forest wolves. A sex bias in gene flow was inferred based on higher levels of mtDNA divergence (Fg^ = 0.282, 0.028 and 0.033; P < 0.0001 for mitochondrial, nuclear autosomal and Y-chromosome markers, respectively). Phenotypic differentiation was substantial as 93% of wolves from tundra populations exhibited light colouration whereas only 38% of boreal coniferous forest wolves did (y} = 64.52, P < 0.0001). The sharp boundary representing this discontinuity was the southern limit of the caribou migration. These findings show that substantial genetic and phenotypic differentiation in highly mobile mammals can be caused by prey-habitat specialization rather than distance or topographic barriers. The presence of a distinct wolf ecotype in the tundra of North America highlights the need to preserve migratory populations.

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“…Despite the considerable interest in the broader implications of NHPI, the vast majority of empirical studies of this phenomenon have been conducted in the laboratory and used insects as the experimental subjects (Davis & Stamps 2004;Davis 2006;Stamps & Davis 2006), although a few field studies have reported a population genetic structure consistent with NHPI (Sacks et al 2005;Tonnis et al 2005;Pilot et al 2006). Recently, Haughland & Larsen (2004) found that red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) born in either logged or intact coniferous forests were likely to recruit to new sites that were structurally similar to their natal site.…”

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Dispersing brush mice prefer habitat like home

Mabry

Stamps

2007

Proc. R. Soc. B.

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During natal dispersal, young animals leave their natal area and search for a new area to live. In species in which individuals inhabit different types of habitat, experience with a natal habitat may increase the probability that a disperser will select the same type of habitat post-dispersal (natal habitat preference induction or NHPI ). Despite considerable interest in the ecological and the evolutionary implications of NHPI, we lack empirical evidence that it occurs in nature. Here we show that dispersing brush mice (Peromyscus boylii ) are more likely to search and settle within their natal habitat type than expected based on habitat availability. These results document the occurrence of NHPI in nature and highlight the relevance of experience-generated habitat preferences for ecological and evolutionary processes.

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The effect of natal experience on habitat preferences

Cited by 443 publications

References 52 publications

Error management theory and the adaptive significance of transgenerational maternal‐stress effects on offspring phenotype

Error management theory and the adaptive significance of transgenerational maternal‐stress effects on offspring phenotype

Differentiation of tundra/taiga and boreal coniferous forest wolves: genetics, coat colour and association with migratory caribou

Dispersing brush mice prefer habitat like home

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