Environmental change alters personality in the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

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作者
Frost, Ashley J. [1 ]
Thomson, Jack S. [1 ]
Smith, Charlotte [1 ]
Burton, Hannah C. [1 ,2 ]
Davis, Ben [1 ,3 ]
Watts, Phillip C. [1 ]
Sneddon, Lynne U. [1 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Liverpool, Inst Integrat Biol, Liverpool L69 7ZB, Merseyside, England
[2] Cardiff Univ, Sch Biosci, Cardiff CF10 3AX, S Glam, Wales
[3] James Cook Univ, Sch Marine & Trop Biol, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
[4] Univ Chester, Chester, Cheshire, England
关键词
behavioural plasticity; boldness; coping style; hypoxia; Oncorhynchus mykiss; predation risk; rainbow trout; temperature; STRESS-COPING STYLES; BROWN TROUT; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; DISSOLVED-OXYGEN; PLASMA-CORTISOL; PREDATION RISK; ATLANTIC COD; STRAINS;
D O I
10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.03.006
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Boldness is a personality trait that defines how individuals respond to risky situations and has clear fitness consequences. Since the adaptive value of boldness is context dependent, the benefit of a distinct personality is less clear when the environment is unpredictable. An ability to modulate behaviour can be beneficial, although as behavioural plasticity itself may be costly this depends on the levels of environmental stability. Both boldness and its plasticity are linked with physiological stress coping mechanisms, whereby animals with reduced glucocorticoid responses to stress are bolder and less flexible in behaviour. We investigated the behavioural changes made by bold and shy rainbow trout, and the magnitude of those changes, in response to predation risk and exposure to two environmental challenges. Behavioural and physiological responses under biotic (either no, predictable or unpredictable predation risk) and abiotic (temperature increase or hypoxia) factors were measured. Boldness was determined using a standard novel object paradigm. In general, after exposure to the treatments, fish exhibited less extreme bold or shy behaviour; the greatest change was observed in fish exposed to hypoxia, or those exposed to high risk particularly in shy fish held at a lower temperature. Higher risk also resulted in increased stress, suggesting that extreme bold or shy behaviour might have been maladaptive under a potential predator threat. These results represent novel evidence that boldness is flexible depending upon particular environmental challenges, with important implications for populations facing environmental extremes caused by anthropogenic activity and climate change. (C) 2013 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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