Integrating animal behaviour into research on multiple environmental stressors: a conceptual framework

Laura K. Lopez; Michael A. Gil; Philip H. Crowley; Pete C. Trimmer; Amelia Munson; Isaac Y. Ligocki; Marcus Michelangeli; Andrew Sih

doi:10.1111/brv.12956

journal article Apr 02, 2023

Integrating animal behaviour into research on multiple environmental stressors: a conceptual framework

Laura K. Lopez

Michael A. Gil

Philip H. Crowley Pete C. Trimmer Amelia Munson Isaac Y. Ligocki Marcus Michelangeli

Andrew Sih

Biological Reviews Vol. 98 No. 4 pp. 1345-1364 · Wiley

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Abstract

ABSTRACTWhile a large body of research has focused on the physiological effects of multiple environmental stressors, how behavioural and life‐history plasticity mediate multiple‐stressor effects remains underexplored. Behavioural plasticity can not only drive organism‐level responses to stressors directly but can also mediate physiological responses. Here, we provide a conceptual framework incorporating four fundamental trade‐offs that explicitly link animal behaviour to life‐history‐based pathways for energy allocation, shaping the impact of multiple stressors on fitness. We first address how small‐scale behavioural changes can either mediate or drive conflicts between the effects of multiple stressors and alternative physiological responses. We then discuss how animal behaviour gives rise to three additional understudied and interrelated trade‐offs: balancing the benefits and risks of obtaining the energy needed to cope with stressors, allocation of energy between life‐history traits and stressor responses, and larger‐scale escape from stressors in space or time via large‐scale movement or dormancy. Finally, we outline how these trade‐offs interactively affect fitness and qualitative ecological outcomes resulting from multiple stressors. Our framework suggests that explicitly considering animal behaviour should enrich our mechanistic understanding of stressor effects, help explain extensive context dependence observed in these effects, and highlight promising avenues for future empirical and theoretical research.

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Published: Apr 02, 2023
Vol/Issue: 98(4)
Pages: 1345-1364
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Laura K. Lopez

Department of Environmental Science & Policy University of California 2132 Wickson Hall, One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA; National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, Kids Research Sydney Children's Hospitals Network Corner Hawkesbury Road & Hainsworth Street Westmead New South Wales 2145 Australia

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Michael A. Gil

Department of Environmental Science & Policy University of California 2132 Wickson Hall, One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Ramaley N122/Campus Box 334 Boulder CO 80309‐0334 USA

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Philip H. Crowley

Department of Biology University of Kentucky 195 Huguelet Drive, 101 Thomas Hunt Morgan Building Lexington KY 40506‐0225 USA

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Pete C. Trimmer

Department of Environmental Science & Policy University of California 2132 Wickson Hall, One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA; Department of Psychology University of Warwick University Road Coventry CV4 7AL UK

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Amelia Munson

Department of Environmental Science & Policy University of California 2132 Wickson Hall, One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA

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Isaac Y. Ligocki

Department of Biology Millersville University of Pennsylvania Roddy Science Hall, PO Box 1002 Millersville PA 17551 USA; Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology Ohio State University 318 W. 12th Avenue Columbus OH 43210 USA

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Marcus Michelangeli

Department of Environmental Science & Policy University of California 2132 Wickson Hall, One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA; Department of Wildlife, Fish & Environmental Studies Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Skogsmarksgränd Umeå SE‐907 36 Sweden

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Andrew Sih

Department of Environmental Science & Policy University of California 2132 Wickson Hall, One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA

Funding

National Science Foundation Award: 1557836

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Award: SFB TRR 212

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Laura K. Lopez, Michael A. Gil, Philip H. Crowley, et al. (2023). Integrating animal behaviour into research on multiple environmental stressors: a conceptual framework. Biological Reviews, 98(4), 1345-1364. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12956

Integrating animal behaviour into research on multiple environmental stressors: a conceptual framework

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