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- Title
Olfactory Landscape Concept: A Key Source of Past, Present, and Future Information Driving Animal Movement and Decision-making.
- Authors
Finnerty, Patrick B; McArthur, Clare; Banks, Peter; Price, Catherine; Shrader, Adrian M
- Abstract
Odor is everywhere, emitted across the landscape from predators, prey, decaying carcasses, conspecifics, vegetation, surface water, and smoke. Many animals exploit odor to find food, avoid threats, and attract or judge potential mates. Here, we focus on odor in terrestrial ecosystems to introduce the concept of an olfactory landscape: real-time dynamic olfactory contours reflecting the patchy distribution of resources and risks, providing a key source of information used by many animals in their movement and decision-making. Incorporating the olfactory landscape into current frameworks of movement ecology and animal behavior will provide a mechanistic link to help answer significant questions about where, why, and when many animals move, and how they do so efficiently in both space and time. By understanding how animals use the olfactory landscape to make crucial decisions affecting their fitness, we can then manipulate the landscape to modify ecological interactions and, ultimately, ecosystem consequences of these interactions.
- Subjects
ODORS; ANIMAL mechanics; OLFACTORY perception; FOOD aroma; LANDSCAPES; ANIMAL ecology; ANIMAL behavior
- Publication
BioScience, 2022, Vol 72, Issue 8, p745
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/biosci/biac039