Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire history

Many animals survive wildfires; however, the mechanisms used to detect and respond to fire have been poorly studied. Sensory cues like sight and sound are used to recognize threats (e.g. predators) and elicit escape responses in prey. Similarly, these cues might be used to detect an approaching wild...

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Autores: Álvarez-Ruiz, Lola, Pausas, J. G., Blumstein, Daniel T., Putman, Breanna J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Palabra clave:Fire adaptation
Fire avoidance
Fire detection
Flight initiation distance
Global change
Reptile
Vigilance
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spelling Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire historyÁlvarez-Ruiz, LolaPausas, J. G.Blumstein, Daniel T.Putman, Breanna J.Fire adaptationFire avoidanceFire detectionFlight initiation distanceGlobal changeReptileVigilanceMany animals survive wildfires; however, the mechanisms used to detect and respond to fire have been poorly studied. Sensory cues like sight and sound are used to recognize threats (e.g. predators) and elicit escape responses in prey. Similarly, these cues might be used to detect an approaching wildfire. We tested whether the western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis, responds to the sound of fire as a threat. We predicted that lizards living in burned areas would be more sensitive to the sound of fire than lizards in adjacent and urban areas, where fire suppression could have induced relaxed selection on fire responsiveness. We compared the behaviours of lizards following an experimental playback where we broadcast the sound of fire along with other control sounds (a predator, a common nonpredatory bird and a novel nonpredatory bird). We conducted our playbacks in 2019 in recently burned areas (using the survivors from the 2018 Woolsey Fire, southern California, U.S.A.), unburned adjacent areas and urban areas. We found that in burned areas, lizards responded more to the sound of fire than all three controls, but in urban areas, they responded more to both the sound of a predator and the sound of fire. Our results suggest that lizard responses to fire sounds are greater in an area that has recently experienced a wildfire than in an unburned area, and that urban areas create a complex evolutionary landscape that also increased antipredator behaviour for other biologically relevant stimuli.This work was supported by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities from the Spanish Government (grant numbers CGL2015-64086-P, PGC2018-096569-B-I00 and BES-2016-078225).ElsevierMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2023202320232023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/339738reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE##PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CGL2015-64086-Pinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PGC2018-096569-B-I00http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.12.002Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3397382026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire history
title Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire history
spellingShingle Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire history
Álvarez-Ruiz, Lola
Fire adaptation
Fire avoidance
Fire detection
Flight initiation distance
Global change
Reptile
Vigilance
title_short Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire history
title_full Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire history
title_fullStr Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire history
title_full_unstemmed Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire history
title_sort Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire history
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Álvarez-Ruiz, Lola
Pausas, J. G.
Blumstein, Daniel T.
Putman, Breanna J.
author Álvarez-Ruiz, Lola
author_facet Álvarez-Ruiz, Lola
Pausas, J. G.
Blumstein, Daniel T.
Putman, Breanna J.
author_role author
author2 Pausas, J. G.
Blumstein, Daniel T.
Putman, Breanna J.
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Fire adaptation
Fire avoidance
Fire detection
Flight initiation distance
Global change
Reptile
Vigilance
topic Fire adaptation
Fire avoidance
Fire detection
Flight initiation distance
Global change
Reptile
Vigilance
description Many animals survive wildfires; however, the mechanisms used to detect and respond to fire have been poorly studied. Sensory cues like sight and sound are used to recognize threats (e.g. predators) and elicit escape responses in prey. Similarly, these cues might be used to detect an approaching wildfire. We tested whether the western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis, responds to the sound of fire as a threat. We predicted that lizards living in burned areas would be more sensitive to the sound of fire than lizards in adjacent and urban areas, where fire suppression could have induced relaxed selection on fire responsiveness. We compared the behaviours of lizards following an experimental playback where we broadcast the sound of fire along with other control sounds (a predator, a common nonpredatory bird and a novel nonpredatory bird). We conducted our playbacks in 2019 in recently burned areas (using the survivors from the 2018 Woolsey Fire, southern California, U.S.A.), unburned adjacent areas and urban areas. We found that in burned areas, lizards responded more to the sound of fire than all three controls, but in urban areas, they responded more to both the sound of a predator and the sound of fire. Our results suggest that lizard responses to fire sounds are greater in an area that has recently experienced a wildfire than in an unburned area, and that urban areas create a complex evolutionary landscape that also increased antipredator behaviour for other biologically relevant stimuli.
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