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Social interactions and information use by foraging seabirds
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 May 2. doi: 10.1111/brv.13089. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhat do seabirds perceive about the world? How do they do so? And how do they use the information available to them to make foraging decisions? Social cues provide seabirds with information about the location of prey. This can, of course, be passive and not involve higher-order cognitive processes (e.g. simple conspecific or heterospecific attraction). However, seabirds display many behaviours that promote learning and the transmission of information between individuals: the vast majority of seabirds are colonial living, have an ext...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - May 2, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Samantha Anne Monier Source Type: research

Quantifying farm sustainability through the lens of ecological theory
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 May 2. doi: 10.1111/brv.13088. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe achievements of the Green Revolution in meeting the nutritional needs of a growing global population have been won at the expense of unintended consequences for the environment. Some of these negative impacts are now threatening the sustainability of food production through the loss of pollinators and natural enemies of crop pests, the evolution of pesticide resistance, declining soil health and vulnerability to climate change. In the search for farming systems that are sustainable both agronomically and environmentally, alterna...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - May 2, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Jonathan Storkey Chloe Maclaren James M Bullock Lisa R Norton John W Redhead Richard F Pywell Source Type: research

Lead poisoning of raptors: state of the science and cross-discipline mitigation options for a global problem
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 May 2. doi: 10.1111/brv.13087. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLead poisoning is an important global conservation problem for many species of wildlife, especially raptors. Despite the increasing number of individual studies and regional reviews of lead poisoning of raptors, it has been over a decade since this information has been compiled into a comprehensive global review. Here, we summarize the state of knowledge of lead poisoning of raptors, we review developments in manufacturing of non-lead ammunition, the use of which can reduce the most pervasive source of lead these birds encounter, an...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - May 2, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Todd E Katzner Deborah J Pain Michael McTee Leland Brown Sandra Cuadros Mark Pokras Vincent A Slabe Richard T Watson Guillermo Wiemeyer Bryan Bedrosian Jordan O Hampton Chris N Parish James M Pay Keisuke Saito John H Schulz Source Type: research

Evolutionary formation of melatonin and vitamin D in early life forms: insects take centre stage
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 30. doi: 10.1111/brv.13091. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMelatonin, a product of tryptophan metabolism via serotonin, is a molecule with an indole backbone that is widely produced by bacteria, unicellular eukaryotic organisms, plants, fungi and all animal taxa. Aside from its role in the regulation of circadian rhythms, it has diverse biological actions including regulation of cytoprotective responses and other functions crucial for survival across different species. The latter properties are also shared by its metabolites including kynuric products generated by reactive oxygen species o...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 30, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Tae-Kang Kim Radomir M Slominski Elzbieta Pyza Konrad Kleszczynski Robert C Tuckey Russel J Reiter Michael F Holick Andrzej T Slominski Source Type: research

Is self-awareness necessary to have a theory of mind?
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 27. doi: 10.1111/brv.13090. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTForty years ago, Gallup proposed that theory of mind presupposes self-awareness. Following Humphrey, his hypothesis was that individuals can infer the mental states of others thanks to the ability to monitor their own mental states in similar circumstances. Since then, advances in several disciplines, such as comparative and developmental psychology, have provided empirical evidence to test Gallup's hypothesis. Herein, we review and discuss this evidence.PMID:38676546 | DOI:10.1111/brv.13090 (Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambr...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 27, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Tony Calmette H élène Meunier Source Type: research

The forgotten adaptive social benefits of social learning in animals
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 26. doi: 10.1111/brv.13086. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTheoretical and empirical scholars of cultural evolution have traditionally studied social learning strategies, such as conformity, as adaptive strategies to obtain accurate information about the environment, whereas within social psychology there has been a greater focus upon the social consequences of such strategies. Although these two approaches are often used in concert when studying human social learning, we believe the potential social benefits of conformity, and of social learning more broadly, have been overlooked in studi...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 26, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Rachel A Harrison Pooja Dongre Carel P van Schaik Erica van de Waal Source Type: research

Fungal endophytes can modulate plant invasion
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 17. doi: 10.1111/brv.13085. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSymbiotic organisms may contribute to a host plant's success or failure to grow, its ability to maintain viable populations, and potentially, its probability of establishment and spread outside its native range. Intercellular and intracellular microbial symbionts that are asymptomatic in their plant host during some or all of their life cycle - endophytes - can form mutualistic, commensal, or pathogenic relationships, and sometimes novel associations with alien plants. Fungal endophytes are likely the most common endosymbiont infec...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 17, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Nicholas W Bard Quentin C B Cronk T Jonathan Davies Source Type: research

A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 17. doi: 10.1111/brv.13082. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMigrating animals perform astonishing seasonal movements by orienting and navigating over thousands of kilometres with great precision. Many migratory species use cues from the sun, stars, landmarks, olfaction and the Earth's magnetic field for this task. Among vertebrates, songbirds are the most studied taxon in magnetic-cue-related research. Despite multiple studies, we still lack a clear understanding of when, where and how magnetic cues affect the decision-making process of birds and hence, their realised migratory behaviour in...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 17, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Thiemo Karwinkel Annika Peter Richard A Holland Kasper Thorup Franz Bairlein Heiko Schmaljohann Source Type: research