Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals
The Anthropocene is the era of urbanization. The accelerating expansion of cities occurs at the expense of natural reservoirs of biodiversity and presents animals with challenges for which their evolutionary past might not have prepared them. Cognitive and behavioral adjustments to novelty could pro...
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ftdatacite:10.25932/publishup-54386 2023-05-15T17:12:34+02:00 Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals Mazza, Valeria Czyperreck, Inken Eccard, Jana A. Dammhahn, Melanie 2022 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.25932/publishup-54386 https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/54386 en eng Universität Potsdam Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie article-journal ScholarlyArticle Text 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-54386 2022-04-01T16:21:26Z The Anthropocene is the era of urbanization. The accelerating expansion of cities occurs at the expense of natural reservoirs of biodiversity and presents animals with challenges for which their evolutionary past might not have prepared them. Cognitive and behavioral adjustments to novelty could promote animals’ persistence under these altered conditions. We investigated the structure of, and covariance between, different aspects of responses to novelty in rural and urban small mammals of two non-commensal rodent species. We ran replicated experiments testing responses to three novelty types (object, food, or space) of 47 individual common voles (Microtus arvalis) and 41 individual striped field mice (Apodemus agrarius). We found partial support for the hypothesis that responses to novelty are structured, clustering (i) speed of responses, (ii) intensity of responses, and (iii) responses to food into separate dimensions. Rural and urban small mammals did not differ in most responses to novelty, suggesting that urban habitats do not reduce neophobia in these species. Further studies investigating whether comparable response patters are found throughout different stages of colonization, and along synurbanization processes of different duration, will help illuminate the dynamics of animals’ cognitive adjustments to urban life. : Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1226 Text Microtus arvalis DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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The Anthropocene is the era of urbanization. The accelerating expansion of cities occurs at the expense of natural reservoirs of biodiversity and presents animals with challenges for which their evolutionary past might not have prepared them. Cognitive and behavioral adjustments to novelty could promote animals’ persistence under these altered conditions. We investigated the structure of, and covariance between, different aspects of responses to novelty in rural and urban small mammals of two non-commensal rodent species. We ran replicated experiments testing responses to three novelty types (object, food, or space) of 47 individual common voles (Microtus arvalis) and 41 individual striped field mice (Apodemus agrarius). We found partial support for the hypothesis that responses to novelty are structured, clustering (i) speed of responses, (ii) intensity of responses, and (iii) responses to food into separate dimensions. Rural and urban small mammals did not differ in most responses to novelty, suggesting that urban habitats do not reduce neophobia in these species. Further studies investigating whether comparable response patters are found throughout different stages of colonization, and along synurbanization processes of different duration, will help illuminate the dynamics of animals’ cognitive adjustments to urban life. : Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1226 |
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Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals |
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Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals |
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Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals |
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Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals |
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cross-context responses to novelty in rural and urban small mammals |
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