ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2016
Disrupted learning: habitat degradation impairs crucial antipredator responses in naive prey.
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- Habitat degradation alters trait-based survival in a coral reef fish.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Coral-reef fishes can become more risk-averse at their poleward range limits.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Microplastic exposure interacts with habitat degradation to affect behaviour and survival of juvenile fish in the field.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Habitat degradation and predators have independent trait-mediated effects on prey.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Loss of live coral compromises predator-avoidance behaviour in coral reef damselfish.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Boat noise impacts risk assessment in a coral reef fish but effects depend on engine type.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Algae associated with coral degradation affects risk assessment in coral reef fishes.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Not equal in the face of habitat change: closely related fishes differ in their ability to use predation-related information in degraded coral.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Interspecific differences in how habitat degradation affects escape response.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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- Risk assessment and predator learning in a changing world: understanding the impacts of coral reef degradation.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
Habitat degradation is a global problem and one of the main causes of biodiversity loss. Though widespread, the mechanisms that underlie faunal changes are poorly understood. In tropical marine systems, corals play a crucial role in forming habitat, but coral cover on many reefs is declining sharply. Coral degradation affects the olfactory cues that provide reliable information on the presence and intensity of threat. Here, we show for the first time that the ability of a habitat generalist to learn predators using an efficient and widespread method of predator learning is compromised in degraded coral habitats. Results indicate that chemical alarm cues are no longer indicative of a local threat for the habitat generalist (the damselfish, Pomacentrus amboinensis), and these cues can no longer be used to learn the identity of novel predators in degraded habitats. By contrast, a rubble specialist and congeneric (Pomacentrus coelestis) responded to olfactory threat cues regardless of background environment and could learn the identity of a novel predator using chemical alarm cues. Understanding how some species can cope with or acclimate to the detrimental impacts of habitat degradation on risk assessment abilities will be crucial to defining the scope of resilience in threatened communities.
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