ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2019
Mate choice in a polluted world: consequences for individuals, populations and communities.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Hybridization in the Anthropocene - how pollution and climate change disrupt mate selection in freshwater fish.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Pooled it
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- Early Oxidative Stress May Prevent a Red Ornament From Signaling Longevity.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2025Article
- Multiple stressors lead to complex responses in reproductive behaviors in an African cichlid.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Starving infecund widow spiders maintain sexual attractiveness and trade off safety for enhanced prey capture.iScience · 2024Article
- Pesticide exposure triggers sex-specific inter- and transgenerational effects conditioned by past sexual selection.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Plants buffer some of the effects of a pair of cadmium-exposed zebrafish on the un-exposed majority.Environmental toxicology and pharmacology · 2024Article
- Turbidity drives plasticity in the eyes and brains of an African cichlid.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Vibroscape analysis reveals acoustic niche overlap and plastic alteration of vibratory courtship signals in ground-dwelling wolf spiders.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Multiple stressors disrupt sex hormones and fitness outcomes: effects of hypoxia and turbidity on an African cichlid fish.Conservation physiology · 2024Article
- A Pair of Cadmium-exposed Zebrafish Affect Boldness and Landmark use in the Un-exposed Majority.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- A multidimensional framework to quantify the effects of urbanization on avian breeding fitness.Ecology and evolution · 2023Review
- A pair of cadmium-exposed zebrafish affect social behavior of the un-exposed majority.Environmental toxicology and pharmacology · 2023Article
- A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Review
- How urbanization affects sexual communication.Ecology and evolution · 2021Review
- Against the Odds: Hybrid Zones between Mangrove Killifish Species with Different Mating Systems.Genes · 2021Article
- The Role of Behavioral Ecotoxicology in Environmental Protection.Environmental science & technology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Pollution (e.g. by chemicals, noise, light, heat) is an insidious consequence of anthropogenic activity that affects environments worldwide. Exposure of wildlife to pollutants has the capacity to adversely affect animal communication and behaviour across a wide range of sensory modalities-by not only impacting the signalling environment, but also the way in which animals produce, perceive and interpret signals and cues. Such disturbances, particularly when it comes to sex, can drastically alter fitness. Here, we consider how pollutants disrupt communication and behaviour during mate choice, and the ecological and evolutionary changes such disturbances can engender. We explain how the different stages of mate choice can be affected by pollution, from encountering mates to the final choice, and how changes to these stages can influence individual fitness, population dynamics and community structure. We end with discussing how an understanding of these disturbances can help inform better conservation and management practices and highlight important considerations and avenues for future research. This article is part of the theme issue 'Linking behaviour to dynamics of populations and communities: application of novel approaches in behavioural ecology to conservation'.
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