Does the match between individual and group behavior matter in shoaling sticklebacks?
Abstract In animals living in groups, the social environment is fundamental to shaping the behaviors and life histories of an individual. A mismatch between individual and group behavior patterns may have disadvantages if the individual is incapable of flexibly changing its state in response to the...
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| author | Sin‐Yeon Kim Náyade Álvarez‐Quintero Neil B. Metcalfe |
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| description | Abstract In animals living in groups, the social environment is fundamental to shaping the behaviors and life histories of an individual. A mismatch between individual and group behavior patterns may have disadvantages if the individual is incapable of flexibly changing its state in response to the social environment that influences its energy gain and expenditure. We used different social groups of juvenile three‐spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with experimentally manipulated compositions of individual sociability to study the feedback between individual and group behaviors and to test how the social environment shapes behavior, metabolic rate, and growth. Experimentally created unsociable groups, containing a high proportion of less sociable fish, showed bolder collective behaviors during feeding than did corresponding sociable groups. Fish within groups where the majority of members had a level of sociability similar to their own gained more mass than did those within mismatched groups. Less sociable individuals within sociable groups tended to have a relatively low mass but a high standard metabolic rate. A mismatch between the sociability of an individual and that of the majority of the group in which it is living confers a growth disadvantage probably due to the expression of nonadaptive behaviors that increase energetic costs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7b2e598e27ef4feeb8c2c93f94628cbe2022-12-22T03:02:30ZengWileyEcology and Evolution2045-77582022-02-01122n/an/a10.1002/ece3.8581Does the match between individual and group behavior matter in shoaling sticklebacks?Sin‐Yeon Kim0Náyade Álvarez‐Quintero1Neil B. Metcalfe2Grupo Ecoloxía Animal Torre CACTI Centro de Investigación Mariña Universidade de Vigo Vigo SpainGrupo Ecoloxía Animal Torre CACTI Centro de Investigación Mariña Universidade de Vigo Vigo SpainInstitute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine University of Glasgow Glasgow UKAbstract In animals living in groups, the social environment is fundamental to shaping the behaviors and life histories of an individual. A mismatch between individual and group behavior patterns may have disadvantages if the individual is incapable of flexibly changing its state in response to the social environment that influences its energy gain and expenditure. We used different social groups of juvenile three‐spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with experimentally manipulated compositions of individual sociability to study the feedback between individual and group behaviors and to test how the social environment shapes behavior, metabolic rate, and growth. Experimentally created unsociable groups, containing a high proportion of less sociable fish, showed bolder collective behaviors during feeding than did corresponding sociable groups. Fish within groups where the majority of members had a level of sociability similar to their own gained more mass than did those within mismatched groups. Less sociable individuals within sociable groups tended to have a relatively low mass but a high standard metabolic rate. A mismatch between the sociability of an individual and that of the majority of the group in which it is living confers a growth disadvantage probably due to the expression of nonadaptive behaviors that increase energetic costs.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8581collective behaviorGasterosteus aculeatusgroup livinggrowthmetabolic ratesociability |
| spellingShingle | Sin‐Yeon Kim Náyade Álvarez‐Quintero Neil B. Metcalfe Does the match between individual and group behavior matter in shoaling sticklebacks? Ecology and Evolution collective behavior Gasterosteus aculeatus group living growth metabolic rate sociability |
| title | Does the match between individual and group behavior matter in shoaling sticklebacks? |
| title_full | Does the match between individual and group behavior matter in shoaling sticklebacks? |
| title_fullStr | Does the match between individual and group behavior matter in shoaling sticklebacks? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does the match between individual and group behavior matter in shoaling sticklebacks? |
| title_short | Does the match between individual and group behavior matter in shoaling sticklebacks? |
| title_sort | does the match between individual and group behavior matter in shoaling sticklebacks |
| topic | collective behavior Gasterosteus aculeatus group living growth metabolic rate sociability |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8581 |
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