Shuttle-box systems for studying preferred environmental ranges by aquatic animals.

Autor: Christensen EAF; Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK., Andersen LEJ; Marine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Strandpromenaden 5, 3000 Elsinore, Denmark., Bergsson H; Marine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Strandpromenaden 5, 3000 Elsinore, Denmark., Steffensen JF; Marine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Strandpromenaden 5, 3000 Elsinore, Denmark., Killen SS; Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Conservation physiology [Conserv Physiol] 2021 May 17; Vol. 9 (1), pp. coab028. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 May 17 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coab028
Abstrakt: Animals' selection of environments within a preferred range is key to understanding their habitat selection, tolerance to stressors and responses to environmental change. For aquatic animals, preferred environmental ranges can be studied in so-called shuttle-boxes, where an animal can choose its ambient environment by shuttling between separate choice chambers with differences in an environmental variable. Over time, researchers have refined the shuttle-box technology and applied them in many different research contexts, and we here review the use of shuttle-boxes as a research tool with aquatic animals over the past 50 years. Most studies on the methodology have been published in the latest decade, probably due to an increasing research interest in the effects of environmental change, which underlines the current popularity of the system. The shuttle-box has been applied to a wide range of research topics with regards to preferred ranges of temperature, CO 2 , salinity and O 2   in a vast diversity of species, showing broad applicability for the system. We have synthesized the current state-of-the-art of the methodology and provided best practice guidelines with regards to setup, data analyses, experimental design and study reporting. We have also identified a series of knowledge gaps, which can and should be addressed in future studies. We conclude with highlighting directions for research using shuttle-boxes within evolutionary biology and behavioural and physiological ecology.
(© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press and the Society for Experimental Biology.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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