A review of conspecific attraction for habitat selection across taxa.

ABSTRACT: Many species across taxa select habitat based on conspecific presence, known as conspecific attraction. Studies that document conspecific attraction typically provide social information (i.e., cues that indicate the presence of a given species) and then determine if a given species is more likely to settle at locations where the social information is provided compared to those locations that do not. Although the number of studies examining conspecific attraction has grown in recent years, a comprehensive review has not yet been undertaken. Here, we conducted a review of the literature and found 151 studies investigating conspecific attraction across eight taxa. We found that conspecific attraction is widespread with between 80% and 100% of studies, depending on taxa, documenting positive a

SUBMITTER: Buxton VL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713925 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature