ArticleBioscience2022
The Olfactory Landscape Concept: A Key Source of Past, Present, and Future Information Driving Animal Movement and Decision-making.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The study of social animal migrations: a synthesis of the past and guidelines for future research.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Pooled it
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- Wind conditions do not consistently affect large-scale movement decisions of large savanna herbivores.Oecologia · 2026Article
- Enhanced environmental acclimation of cats using an innovative passive diffuser of the facial-marking pheromone (F3).Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Spatiotemporal scavenging dynamics of introduced red foxes across distinct Australian ecosystems.Journal of mammalogy · 2026Article
- Family Breakup Dynamics in a Promiscuous Solitary Mammal.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Differences in Olfactory Discrimination, but Not Sensitivity, Between African Savanna and Asian Elephants.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Carrion Increases Landscape-Scale Scavenger Activity and Interactions.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Comparing Durations of Different Countermeasure Efficacies Against Wild Boar (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- How can we apply decision-making theories to wild animal behavior? Predictions arising from dual process theory and Bayesian decision theory.American journal of primatology · 2025Review
- Fine-scale associational effects: Single plant neighbours can alter susceptibility of focal plants to herbivores.PloS one · 2025Article
- Olfactory misinformation provides refuge to palatable plants from mammalian browsing.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Legacies of salient environmental experiences-insights from chemosensation.Chemical senses · 2024Article
- The deterrent effects of individual monoterpene odours on the dietary decisions of African elephants.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- A new conceptual and quantitative approach to exploring and defining potential open-access olfactory information.The New phytologist · 2022Article
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Abstract
Odor is everywhere, emitted across the landscape from predators, prey, decaying carcasses, conspecifics, vegetation, surface water, and smoke. Many animals exploit odor to find food, avoid threats, and attract or judge potential mates. Here, we focus on odor in terrestrial ecosystems to introduce the concept of an olfactory landscape: real-time dynamic olfactory contours reflecting the patchy distribution of resources and risks, providing a key source of information used by many animals in their movement and decision-making. Incorporating the olfactory landscape into current frameworks of movement ecology and animal behavior will provide a mechanistic link to help answer significant questions about where, why, and when many animals move, and how they do so efficiently in both space and time. By understanding how animals use the olfactory landscape to make crucial decisions affecting their fitness, we can then manipulate the landscape to modify ecological interactions and, ultimately, ecosystem consequences of these interactions.
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