ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Structural manipulations of a shelter resource reveal underlying preference functions in a shell-dwelling cichlid fish.
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- Jump now, pay later: saltatory behavior trades off with body mass and facilitates shelter repair in a seed-dwelling insect.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2026Article
- Comparative spatial cognition in wild Tanganyikan cichlids: navigation performance varies with home range and shelter availability.Animal cognition · 2026Article
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- How can we measure resource quality when resources differ in many ways? Deconstructing shelter quality in a social fish.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Patterns of sex-biased dispersal are consistent with social and ecological constraints in a group-living cichlid fish.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Structural manipulations of a shelter resource reveal underlying preference functions in a shell-dwelling cichlid fish.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Social and seasonal variation in dwarf mongoose home-range size, daily movements, and burrow use.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Social and spatial conflict drive resident aggression toward outsiders in a group-living fish.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Many animals can modify the environments in which they live, thereby changing the selection pressures they experience. A common example of such niche construction is the use, creation or modification of environmental resources for use as nests or shelters. Because these resources often have correlated structural elements, it can be difficult to disentangle the relative contribution of these elements to resource choice, and the preference functions underlying niche-construction behaviour remain hidden. Here, we present an experimental paradigm that uses 3D scanning, modelling and printing to create replicas of structures that differ with respect to key structural attributes. We show that a niche-constructing, shell-dwelling cichlid fish,
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