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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Harnessing natural selection to tackle the problem of prey naïveté |
Other Titles: | Harnessing natural selection to tackle the problem of prey naivete |
Author: | Moseby, K.E. Blumstein, D.T. Letnic, M. |
Citation: | Evolutionary Applications: evolutionary approaches to environmental, biomedical and socio-economic issues, 2016; 9(2):334-343 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
ISSN: | 1752-4563 1752-4571 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Katherine E. Moseby, Daniel T. Blumstein, Mike Letnic |
Abstract: | Many populations are threatened or endangered because of excessive predation resulting from individuals' inability to recognize, avoid, or escape alien predators. Such prey naivete is often attributed to the absence of prior experience and co-evolution between native prey and introduced predators. Many reintroduction programs focus on reducing predation rate by excluding introduced predators, a focus which ignores, and indeed exacerbates, the problem of prey naivete. We argue for a new paradigm in reintroduction biology that expands the focus from predator control to kick-starting learning and evolutionary processes between alien predators and reintroduced prey. By exposing reintroduced prey to carefully controlled levels of alien predators, in situ predation could enhance reintroduction success by facilitating acquisition of learned antipredator responses and through natural selection for appropriate antipredator traits. This in situ predator exposure should be viewed as a long-term process but is likely to be the most efficient and expedient way to improve prey responses and assist in broadscale recovery of threatened species. |
Keywords: | exotic predators naïveté natural selection predator learning prey reintroduction |
Rights: | © 2015 The Authors. Evolutionary App lications published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Cre ativeCommons Attribution License, which pe rmits use, di stribution and reproduction in any medium, providedthe original work is properly cited.334Evolutionary Applications ISSN 1752-4571Evolutionary Applications |
DOI: | 10.1111/eva.12332 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP130100173 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.12332 |
Appears in Collections: | Ecology, Evolution and Landscape Science publications |
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