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Craig?A.?WallingEmail author Nick?Dawnay Anahita?J.?N.?Kazem Jonathan?Wright 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2004,56(2):164-170
The apparently maladaptive tendency of fish to approach and inspect potential predators has been explained in terms of useful information gathering or as a signal to the predator that it has been seen. We examined this behaviour in 16 populations of wild-caught stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from ponds with and without predatory perch (Perca fluviatilis). Three large and three small individuals per population were each exposed to three model predators differing in realism. A final cooperative treatment entailed pairing subjects with a second individual from the same population, but of the alternative size class, during predator presentation. As might be expected, predator inspection behaviour was much greater in the predator-sympatric populations, and only these fish increased their level of inspection as the models became incrementally more realistic. This suggests that reductions occur in the level of costly inspection behaviour in populations without predators. Subject body size had no effect on inspection effort, which suggests a limited role for experience (we assumed larger fish to be older than smaller fish), at least over the relative age differences utilized. However, small predator-sympatric fish were the only subjects to increase inspection significantly when in a cooperative context, perhaps reflecting the inherent value of a relatively larger partner in this context. These results confirm that levels of predator inspection are both population- and situation-dependent, suggesting a trade-off in the potential costs and benefits of this behaviour.Communicated by C. St. Mary 相似文献
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Maria Klavarioti Konstantinos Kostarelos Anahita Pourjabbar Masoud Ghandehari 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2014,21(9):5849-5860
There is an imperative need for a chemical sensor capable of remote, in situ, long-term monitoring of chemical species at sites containing toxic chemical spills, specifically at chemical waste dumps, landfills, and locations with underground storage tanks. In the current research, a series of experiments were conducted measuring the near-infrared optical absorption of alkanes, aromatics, and chlorinated hydrocarbons. A spectral library was then developed to characterize the optical spectra of liquid hydrocarbons. Near-infrared analysis was chosen due to compatibility with optical fibers. The goal was to differentiate between classes of hydrocarbons and to also discriminate between compounds within a class of similar molecular structures. It was observed that unique absorption spectra can be obtained for each hydrocarbon, and this uniqueness can be used to discriminate between hydrocarbons from different families. Statistical analyses, namely, principal component analysis (PCA) and correlation coefficient (Spearman and Pearson methods), were attempted to match absorption spectra from an unknown hydrocarbon with the database with limited success. An algorithm was subsequently written to identify the characteristic peaks of each hydrocarbon that could be used to match data from an unknown chemical species with the database. 相似文献
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Paul G. McDonald Anahita J. N. Kazem Jonathan Wright 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(10):1623-1635
‘False feeding,’ where helpers arrive at nests with food but fail to provision the young, has been reported in several cooperative
species. This and other potentially ‘deceptive’ behavior has been interpreted as indicating that helping may operate as a
signal within such social groups. We critically examine these phenomena in the provisioning behavior of the bell miner Manorina melanophrys. Excessively close observation distances can artificially elevate the rate of false feeding in this (and other) species,
but once this had been accounted for, there was little evidence for any ‘deceptive’ behavior by helpers or breeders. Natural
and experimentally induced variation in the presence of a potential conspecific audience at the nest did not have any consistent
influence upon the rate of false feeds, which was low at 7.94% of 6,880 nest visits. Instead, encountering unexpectedly low
levels of brood demand provided a more parsimonious explanation for those visits where helpers failed to feed nestlings or
ate the food themselves. Failure to completely transfer a load to nestlings was more likely when the load contained a high
proportion of sticky lerp, indicating a simple prey-transfer problem. Finally, individuals that arrived at nests without prey
were often members of neighboring breeding pairs, suggesting that these few non-feeding visits may instead involve an information-gathering
function. We, therefore, suggest that future studies explicitly exclude the possibility of observer disturbance and all aspects of normal provisioning behavior before applying the terms ‘false feeding’ or ‘deceptive’ and inferring anything more
than straightforward helping at the nest. 相似文献
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Heidari Serve Mostafaei Shayan Razazian Nazanin Rajati Mojgan Saeedi Anahita Rajati Fatemeh 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2021,28(32):43064-43073
Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Lead exposure as a toxic material especially in children can be recognized as a harmful factor for cognitive function system. This meta-analysis was... 相似文献
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