Consistent traffic noise impacts few fitness-related traits in a field cricket.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anthropogenic habitat change is occurring rapidly, and organisms can respond through within-generation responses that improve the match between their phenotype and the novel conditions they encounter. But, plastic responses can be adaptive or maladaptive and are most likely to be adaptive only when contemporary conditions reasonably mimic something experienced historically to which a response has already evolved. Noise pollution is a ubiquitous anthropogenic stressor that accompanies expanding urbanization. We tested whether the amplitude of traffic noise influences a suite of fitness-related traits (e.g. survival, life history, reproductive investment, immunity) and whether that depends on the life stage at which the noise is experienced (juvenile or adult). Our treatme

SUBMITTER: Welsh GT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10731782 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature