Behavioral flexibility and novel environments: integrating current perspectives for future directions
Author(s)
Šlipogor, Vedrana
Date Issued
2024
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article
Volume
70
Journal
Abstract
The aim of this Special Column is, therefore, to bring together different pieces of research that investigate the role of behavioral flexibility, in its broadest sense, when facing novel environments. This introduction to the topical collection of Current Zoology on Behavioral Flexibility and Novel
Environments clarifies our operational definitions of environmental novelty and behavioral flexibility, and places the empirical contributions in context. The 10 articles that make
up this Special Column collection highlight the role of behavioural flexibility in: i) dispersing into novel environments, ii) coping with human-altered, native, and non-native “natural” environments, and iii) the interplay with consistent interindividual behavioral variation. Here, we aimed to provide a framework to integrate behavioral ecology and comparative cognition perspectives for future studies. By summarizing the contributions to the topical collection, we aimed to extract and integrate the main lessons that could be learned from the most recent work in this field.
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