Coping with continuous human disturbance in the wild: insights from penguin heart rate response to various stressors
International audience A central question for ecologists is the extent to which anthropogenic disturbances (e.g. tourism) might impact wildlife and affect the systems under study. From a research perspective, identifying the effects of human disturbance caused by research-related activities is cruci...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-00718988v1 2024-02-11T10:08:54+01:00 Coping with continuous human disturbance in the wild: insights from penguin heart rate response to various stressors Viblanc, Vincent A. D. Smith, Andrew Gineste, Benoît Groscolas, René Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC) Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Ecology and Evolution Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL) IPEV 2012-07-11 https://hal.science/hal-00718988 https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-12-10 en eng HAL CCSD BioMed Central info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1186/1472-6785-12-10 hal-00718988 https://hal.science/hal-00718988 doi:10.1186/1472-6785-12-10 PUBMEDCENTRAL: PMC3543187 ISSN: 1472-6785 BMC Ecology https://hal.science/hal-00718988 BMC Ecology, 2012, in press. ⟨10.1186/1472-6785-12-10⟩ Stress Heart rate Habituation Selection Seabird Human disturbance Long-term monitoring [SDE]Environmental Sciences [SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2012 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-12-10 2024-01-27T23:38:32Z International audience A central question for ecologists is the extent to which anthropogenic disturbances (e.g. tourism) might impact wildlife and affect the systems under study. From a research perspective, identifying the effects of human disturbance caused by research-related activities is crucial in order to understand and account for potential biases and derive appropriate conclusions from the data. Here, we document a case of biological adjustment to chronic human disturbance in a colonial seabird, the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), breeding on remote and protected islands of the Southern ocean. Using heart rate (HR) as a measure of the stress response, we show that, in a colony with areas exposed to the continuous presence of humans (including scientists) for over 50 years, penguins have adjusted to human disturbance and habituated to certain, but not all, types of stressors. When compared to birds breeding in relatively undisturbed areas, birds in areas of high chronic human disturbance were found to exhibit attenuated HR responses to acute anthropogenic stressors of low-intensity (i.e. sounds or human approaches) to which they had been subjected intensely over the years. However, such attenuation was not apparent for high-intensity stressors (i.e. captures for scientific research) which only a few individuals experience each year. Habituation to anthropogenic sounds/approaches could be an adaptation to deal with chronic innocuous stressors, and beneficial from a research perspective. Alternately, whether penguins have actually habituated to anthropogenic disturbances over time or whether human presence has driven the directional selection of human-tolerant phenotypes, remains an open question with profound ecological and conservation implications, and emphasizes the need for more knowledge on the effects of human disturbance on long-term studied populations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Southern Ocean BMC Ecology 12 1 10 |
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Stress Heart rate Habituation Selection Seabird Human disturbance Long-term monitoring [SDE]Environmental Sciences [SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE] Viblanc, Vincent A. D. Smith, Andrew Gineste, Benoît Groscolas, René Coping with continuous human disturbance in the wild: insights from penguin heart rate response to various stressors |
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International audience A central question for ecologists is the extent to which anthropogenic disturbances (e.g. tourism) might impact wildlife and affect the systems under study. From a research perspective, identifying the effects of human disturbance caused by research-related activities is crucial in order to understand and account for potential biases and derive appropriate conclusions from the data. Here, we document a case of biological adjustment to chronic human disturbance in a colonial seabird, the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), breeding on remote and protected islands of the Southern ocean. Using heart rate (HR) as a measure of the stress response, we show that, in a colony with areas exposed to the continuous presence of humans (including scientists) for over 50 years, penguins have adjusted to human disturbance and habituated to certain, but not all, types of stressors. When compared to birds breeding in relatively undisturbed areas, birds in areas of high chronic human disturbance were found to exhibit attenuated HR responses to acute anthropogenic stressors of low-intensity (i.e. sounds or human approaches) to which they had been subjected intensely over the years. However, such attenuation was not apparent for high-intensity stressors (i.e. captures for scientific research) which only a few individuals experience each year. Habituation to anthropogenic sounds/approaches could be an adaptation to deal with chronic innocuous stressors, and beneficial from a research perspective. Alternately, whether penguins have actually habituated to anthropogenic disturbances over time or whether human presence has driven the directional selection of human-tolerant phenotypes, remains an open question with profound ecological and conservation implications, and emphasizes the need for more knowledge on the effects of human disturbance on long-term studied populations. |
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Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC) Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Ecology and Evolution Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL) IPEV |
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Coping with continuous human disturbance in the wild: insights from penguin heart rate response to various stressors |
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Coping with continuous human disturbance in the wild: insights from penguin heart rate response to various stressors |
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Coping with continuous human disturbance in the wild: insights from penguin heart rate response to various stressors |
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coping with continuous human disturbance in the wild: insights from penguin heart rate response to various stressors |
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