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OpinionBolder Takes All? The Behavioral Dimension of Biogeography
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Animal Personality as a Pacemaker of Evolutionary Processes
The role that behavior plays in actively promoting evolutionary change has long been recognized 1, 2, 3. More recently, the realization that animals possess individual personalities (see Glossary) with a heritable, physiological, and epigenetically regulated basis has deeply impacted on several areas of ecology and evolution [4], and has strengthened this view up to the hypothesis that behavioral variation can ‘act as a ‘pacemaker’ of evolution for non-behavioral traits’ through various
Why Should Biogeographers Care About Animal Personality?
Biogeography is, by definition, the study of the present and past distribution of biological diversity and their causal processes. Many new perspectives and technical advances have deeply reshuffled historical biogeography in the past decades to become ‘prototypic of integrative science’ 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Accordingly, research around long-recognized key processes in biogeography, such as dispersal, has also changed its ‘physiognomy’.
Dispersal (including departure, transience, and
Toward an Integration of Animal Personality and Biogeographic Research
From a historical biogeographic perspective, dispersal events of special interest are diffusion and long-distance dispersal, given their immediate link to contiguous range expansions and colonizations 22, 24. Recent technological progress has allowed extensive documentation of genetic and biogeochemical imprints of these long-controversial events 19, 22, 34, and deep reappraisal of their role in the shaping of biogeographic patterns. In fact, diffusion and long-distance dispersal were once
Concluding Remarks
Trait-based approaches allowing a direct link between ecological and evolutionary processes with biogeographic patterns have proven powerful to ‘opening the black-box of biogeographic processes’ [58]. However, previous research has focused predominantly on morphological characters. We have considered here how behavioral traits (which might also influence morphological trait changes [6]) are involved in the processes that promote range variation over time, because these processes have direct and
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Paul Craze, Dave Jenkins, and Kees van Oers for their very helpful and constructive comments on earlier versions of this manuscript. We thank Kelsey Horvath and Editage for their English revisions. R.B. was supported by a post-doctoral grant from the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research (PRIN project 2012FRHYRA). C.C. is supported by the European Commission (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014-659106).
Glossary
- Behavioral polymorphism
- the occurrence of more than one behavioral phenotype within a population.
- Bio-logging
- the use of miniaturized electronic tags attached to free-ranging animals, and which record or remotely relay data about an animal's behavior, physiology, and environment.
- Density-dependent processes
- a heterogeneous set of processes that are regulated by the demographic density of a population. They include, but are not limited to, allele effects, competition, predation, and, in behavioral
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