SynthesisCommunications biology2022
Physiology can predict animal activity, exploration, and dispersal.
Synthesis in Communications biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- Physiology can predict animal activity, exploration, and dispersal.Communications biology · 2022Pooled it
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- Linking physiological state to movement dynamics in an open ocean predator, the blue shark (Prionace glauca).PloS one · 2026Article
- Plasticity of Dispersal-Related Larval Traits in the Clown AnemonefishEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Physiological Traits for Predicting Poleward Extensions in Tropical Fishes: From Lab to Management.Global change biology · 2025Review
- Integrating animal tracking and trait data to facilitate global ecological discoveries.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Developmental plasticity to pond drying has carryover costs on metamorph performance.Conservation physiology · 2025Article
- Selection for greater dispersal in early life increases rate of age-dependent decline in locomotor activity and shortens lifespan.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2024Article
- Behavioral syndromes in paper wasps: Links between social and non-social personality inCurrent zoology · 2024Article
- A fast fish swimming protocol that provides similar insights to critical swimming speed.Biology open · 2024Article
- Traits Underlying Experimentally Evolved Dispersal Behavior inJournal of insect behavior · 2024Article
- No effect of a widespread pharmaceutical pollutant on behavior, physiology, or morphology in guppies.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Physiology can underlie movement, including short-term activity, exploration of unfamiliar environments, and larger scale dispersal, and thereby influence species distributions in an environmentally sensitive manner. We conducted meta-analyses of the literature to establish, firstly, whether physiological traits underlie activity, exploration, and dispersal by individuals (88 studies), and secondly whether physiological characteristics differed between range core and edges of distributions (43 studies). We show that locomotor performance and metabolism influenced individual movement with varying levels of confidence. Range edges differed from cores in traits that may be associated with dispersal success, including metabolism, locomotor performance, corticosterone levels, and immunity, and differences increased with increasing time since separation. Physiological effects were particularly pronounced in birds and amphibians, but taxon-specific differences may reflect biased sampling in the literature, which also focussed primarily on North America, Europe, and Australia. Hence, physiology can influence movement, but undersampling and bias currently limits general conclusions.
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