The Olfactory Landscape Concept: A Key Source of Past, Present, and Future Information Driving Animal Movement and Decision-making.
| Autor: | Finnerty PB; Doctor of Philosophy student., McArthur C; University of Sydney, Australia., Banks P; University of Sydney, Australia., Price C; University of Sydney, Australia., Shrader AM; University of Pretoria, South Africa. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Bioscience [Bioscience] 2022 Jul 06; Vol. 72 (8), pp. 745-752. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 06 (Print Publication: 2022). |
| DOI: | 10.1093/biosci/biac039 |
| Abstrakt: | Odor is everywhere, emitted across the landscape from predators, prey, decaying carcasses, conspecifics, vegetation, surface water, and smoke. Many animals exploit odor to find food, avoid threats, and attract or judge potential mates. Here, we focus on odor in terrestrial ecosystems to introduce the concept of an olfactory landscape: real-time dynamic olfactory contours reflecting the patchy distribution of resources and risks, providing a key source of information used by many animals in their movement and decision-making. Incorporating the olfactory landscape into current frameworks of movement ecology and animal behavior will provide a mechanistic link to help answer significant questions about where, why, and when many animals move, and how they do so efficiently in both space and time. By understanding how animals use the olfactory landscape to make crucial decisions affecting their fitness, we can then manipulate the landscape to modify ecological interactions and, ultimately, ecosystem consequences of these interactions. (© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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