Chemical cues facilitate foraging across the water-land interface in a resident predatory fish.

ABSTRACT: Transitional ecosystems, such as the land-sea interface, propagate nutrient flow and species interactions. Organisms spanning these boundaries act as important models for understanding the evolution of sensory modalities that promote movement between physically distinct media, and the ecological consequences of ecosystem connectivity. Behavior is fundamentally guided by sensory processing; yet how sensory information is transmitted and collected is heavily dependent on the physical environmental medium. The flow of stimuli across the land-sea interface and the behavioral responses to stimuli are understudied. Vertebrates that span the land-sea boundary offer the opportunity to document how stimuli can be used to complete complex behaviors across transitional ecosystems. We determined that

SUBMITTER: McElfish MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12797313 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature