Causes and Consequences of Behavioral Interference between Species.
File(s)
Accepted version
Author(s)
Grether, GF
Peiman, KS
Tobias, JA
Robinson, BW
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Behavioral interference between species, such as territorial aggression, courtship, and mating, is widespread in animals. While aggressive and reproductive forms of interspecific interference have generally been studied separately, their many parallels and connections warrant a unified conceptual approach. Substantial evidence exists that aggressive and reproductive interference have pervasive effects on species coexistence, range limits, and evolutionary processes, including divergent and convergent forms of character displacement. Alien species invasions and climate change-induced range shifts result in novel interspecific interactions, heightening the importance of predicting the consequences of species interactions, and behavioral interference is a fundamental but neglected part of the equation. Here, we outline priorities for further theoretical and empirical research on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of behavioral interference.
Date Issued
2017-08-07
Date Acceptance
2017-07-18
Citation
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2017, 32 (10), pp.760-772
ISSN
1872-8383
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
760
End Page
772
Journal / Book Title
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volume
32
Issue
10
Copyright Statement
© 2017, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
PII: S0169-5347(17)30180-5
Subjects
character displacement
competitive exclusion
interference competition
interspecific aggression
reproductive interference
sexual exclusion
Publication Status
Published online