Using dose–response functions to improve calculations of the impact of anthropogenic noise

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How behavioural studies contribute to the species problem: a piscine perspective

During the ascendency of ethology, the study of animal behaviour contributed to taxonomic and phyletic issues, but the approach faded in parallel with the waning of systematic studies in general. Systematics and particularly phylogeny has experienced a resurgence with the advent of molecular tools. The understanding of behavioural evolution has benefited from molecular phylogenies. Behaviour's reciprocal contribution, however, currently lies chiefly in resolving the validity of species designation of allopatric species and in potentially helping in the overall classification of species. I review and evaluate the experimental methods favoured in seeking behavioural isolating mechanisms, and the challenge to the species concept when gene trees and species trees disagree. The dynamic situation in the Great Lakes of Africa offers under‐exploited opportunities to test whether behavioural isolating mechanisms evolve in the absence of secondary contact. Given that behaviour is more immediately responsive to changes in the physical and biological environment, behaviour may be the single most salient adaptive feature in speciation events. The species concept is viewed as a fuzzy but nonetheless useful set.     

华山松大小蠹对9种植物挥发物的EAG和行为反应

选取5种非寄主挥发性化合物水杨醛、壬醛、三氯乙烯、二氯甲基甲醚和顺-3-己烯-1醇,4种寄主挥发性化合物β-蒎烯、(+)-3-蒈烯、β-石竹烯和(+)-α-蒎烯,应用触角电位仪和Y型嗅觉仪初步研究了华山松大小蠹成虫对这9种化合物的EAG反应和趋向反应。结果表明:雌虫对三氯乙烯、(+)-3-蒈烯和β-石竹烯,雄虫对壬醛、二氯甲基甲醚、(+)-3-蒈烯和(+)-α-蒎烯有明显的EAG反应;β-蒎烯、(+)-3-蒈烯和(+)-α-蒎烯对华山松大小蠹雌成虫有较强的引诱作用;三氯乙烯对雄成虫有较高的引诱率,且显著高于对雌成虫的引诱率。试验结果可为华山松大小蠹的行为控制技术研究提供借鉴。     

Dusky dolphin foraging habitat: overlap with aquaculture in New Zealand

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Stream spawning of Arctic charr in Scotland

Abstract –  Scotland is a stronghold for Arctic charr, with about 200 freshwater, wholly loch-resident populations, most of which have yet to be studied. To date, no anadromous populations or individual sea-run charr, have been reported. In Scotland, most Arctic charr spawn in stillwater, during autumn and early winter (September to January), with only one population spawning in spring. Spawning in running water does occur, but has been regarded as rare. This paper examines the status of stream spawning of charr in Scotland, describing instances from 10 populations, although two of these are now extinct. Most stream-spawning charr migrate relatively short distances to running water and construct redds in gently flowing water. The longest recorded migration occurs in Loch Insh, Speyside, with fish travelling 15 km within the River Spey. Information on the extent of stream spawning is essential to help conserve the rich phenotypic and genetic diversity of our remaining charr populations.     

Effect of Inside-cage and Outside-cage Environment on Behaviour Test Performance of Blue Foxes (Alopex lagopus)

Abstract

In-cage reaction tests, the open field test and daily activity in the home cage were used to assess the effect of the internal design and location of cages on the behaviour of juvenile blue foxes (Alopex lagopus) during the growing season. The inclusion of nest boxes or resting platforms affected the behaviour of farmed blue foxes, but to a lesser extent than did the location of the animal in the cage row, i.e. the environment outside the cage itself. This study demonstrated that the actual environment in which the farm foxes live may be far larger than the cage interior itself, and that attempts to improve housing design should take into consideration the environment outside the cage to a greater extent than has heretofore been the case.     

Effects of midazolam before or after alfaxalone for co-induction of anaesthesia in healthy dogs

Objective

To study the effect of alternating the order of midazolam and alfaxalone administration on the incidence of behavioural changes, alfaxalone induction dose and some cardiorespiratory variables in healthy dogs.

The impact of fisheries management practices on the survival of the Yangtze finless porpoise in China

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Inter‐ and intra‐specific interactions affecting crustacean trap fisheries—Implications for management

The UK coastal trap fisheries target two key species, European lobster Homarus gammarus (L.) and brown crab Cancer pagurus L. Their stock status is assessed periodically using size‐based, yield‐per‐recruit analysis. Fishery trends are described using landings and, where available, effort data to estimate catch per unit of effort (CPUE), nominally proportional to abundance. Despite being caught together, assessments assume that concurrent capture of these species does not distort their individual CPUE estimates. Here, an in situ experiment tested impacts of inter‐specific and intra‐specific interactions by pre‐loading baited traps with different species and observing subsequent catches. Pre‐loaded European lobster significantly reduced brown crab catches, whereas, other species produced no such effects. The findings highlight the likely inconsistency of using CPUE as an index of abundance if landings data originate from a mixed‐species fishery in which species interactions and targeting behaviour of fishers are unknown or un‐quantified.