Natural and anthropogenic sources of habitat variation influence exploration behaviour, stress response, and brain morphology in a coastal fish
Jenkins, M. R., Cummings, J. M., Cabe, A. R., Hulthen, K., Peterson, M. N., & Langerhans, R. B. (2021, July 13). JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY.
author keywords: Anthropocene; ecosystem fragmentation; human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC); microhabitat complexity; physiological ecology; Poeciliidae; predation; urbanization
MeSH headings : Animals; Brain; Cyprinodontiformes; Ecosystem; Exploratory Behavior; Predatory Behavior
TL;DR:
This work examines how habitat fragmentation and structural habitat complexity, affect disparate trait types in Bahamas mosquitofish inhabiting tidal creeks and demonstrates environmental variation, including recent anthropogenic impacts, can significantly affect complex, ecologically important traits.
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