Shuttle-box systems for studying preferred environmental ranges by aquatic animals.

ABSTRACT: Animals' selection of environments within a preferred range is key to understanding their habitat selection, tolerance to stressors and responses to environmental change. For aquatic animals, preferred environmental ranges can be studied in so-called shuttle-boxes, where an animal can choose its ambient environment by shuttling between separate choice chambers with differences in an environmental variable. Over time, researchers have refined the shuttle-box technology and applied them in many different research contexts, and we here review the use of shuttle-boxes as a research tool with aquatic animals over the past 50 years. Most studies on the methodology have been published in the latest decade, probably due to an increasing research interest in the effects of environmental change, whi

SUBMITTER: Christensen EAF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8129825 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature