Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution.

ABSTRACT: Animal behaviour is remarkably sensitive to disruption by chemical pollution, with widespread implications for ecological and evolutionary processes in contaminated wildlife populations. However, conventional approaches applied to study the impacts of chemical pollutants on wildlife behaviour seldom address the complexity of natural environments in which contamination occurs. The aim of this review is to guide the rapidly developing field of behavioural ecotoxicology towards increased environmental realism, ecological complexity, and mechanistic understanding. We identify research areas in ecology that to date have been largely overlooked within behavioural ecotoxicology but which promise to yield valuable insights, including within- and among-individual variation, social networks and coll

SUBMITTER: Bertram MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9543409 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature