Variation in the antipredator responses of three sympatric plethodontid salamanders to predator-diet cues

Herpetologica

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 401-408

  Sullivan, Aaron M ^a   Madison, Dale M ^a   Rohr, Jason R ^a,b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical cues; Desmognathus ochrophaeus; Eurycea bislineata; Plethodon cinereus; Predator diet; Predator prey

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CHEMICAL CUE; DIET; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; DESMOGNATHUS; DESMOGNATHUS OCHROPHAEUS; EURYCEA; EURYCEA BISLINEATA; PLETHODON; PLETHODON CINEREUS; SERPENTES; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS;

EID: 10644252901     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/03-71     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. BELDEN, L. K., E. L. WILDY, A. C. HATCH, AND A. R. BLAUSTEIN. 2000. Juvenile western toads, Bufo boreas, avoid chemical cues of snakes fed juvenile, but not larval, conspecifics. Animal Behaviour 59:871-875.
2. BRADBURY, J. W., AND S. L. VEHRENCAMP. 1998. Principles of Animal Communication. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
3. BRODIE, E. D., JR. 1981. Phenological relationships of model and mimic salamanders. Evolution 35:988-994.
4. BRODIE, E. D., JR., J. A. JOHNSON, AND C. K. DODD, JR. 1974. Immobility as a defensive behavior in salamanders. Herpetologica 30:79-85.
5. BRÖNMARK, C., AND L. B. PETTERSSON. 1994. Chemical cues from piscivores induce a change in morphology in a crucian carp. Oikos 70:396-402.
6. BROWN, G. E., D. P. CHIVERS, AND R. J. F. SMITH. 1995. Localized defecation by pike - a response to labeling by cyprinid alarm pheromone. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 36:105-110.
7. BROWN, G. E., J. C. ADRIAN, E. SMYTH, H. LEET, AND S. BRENNAN. 2000. Ostariophysan alarm pheromones: laboratory and field tests of the functional significance of nitrogen oxides. Journal of Chemical Ecology 26:139-154.
8. CHIVERS, D. P., AND R. J. F. SMITH. 1998. Chemical alarm signalling in aquatic predator-prey systems: a review and prospectus. Écoscience 5:338-352.
9. CHIVERS, D. P., AND R. H. MIRZA. 2001a. Predator diet cues and the assessment of predation risk by aquatic vertebrates: a review and prospectus. Pp. 277-284. In A. Marchlewska-Koj, J. Lepri, and D. Müller-Schwarze (Eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates IX. Klewer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
10. _. 2001b. Importance of predator diet cues in responses of larval wood frogs to fish and invertebrate predators. Journal of Chemical Ecology 27:45-51.
11. CHIVERS, D. P., J. M. KIESECKER, E. L. WILDY, M. T. ANDERSON, AND A. R. BLAUSTEIN. 1997. Chemical alarm signalling in terrestrial salamanders: intra- and interspecific responses. Ethology 103:599-613.
12. CUPP, P. V. 1994. Salamanders avoid chemical cues from predators. Animal Behaviour 48:232-235.
13. HAMILTON, W. J. J. 1951. The food and feeding behavior of the garter snake in New York State. American Midland Naturalist 46:385-390.
14. HILEMAN, K. S., AND E. D. BRODIE, JR. 1994. Survival strategies of the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus: interaction of predator-avoidance and antipredator mechanisms. Animal Behaviour 47:1-6.
15. KATS, L. B., AND L. M. DILL. 1998. The scent of death: chemosensory assessment of predation by prey animals. Écoscience 5:361-394.
16. LAURILA, A., J. KUJASALO, AND E. RANTA. 1997. Different antipredator behaviors in two anuran tadpoles: effects of predator diet. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 40:329-336.
17. LUTTERSCHMIDT, W. I., G. MARVIN, AND V. H. HUTCHISON. 1994. Alarm response by a plethodontid salamander (Desmognathus ochrophaeus): conspecific and heterospecific "schreckstoff". Journal of Chemical Ecology 20:2751-2759.
18. MACCULLOCH, R. D., AND J. R. BIDER. 1975. Phenology, migrations, circadian rhythm and the effect of precipitation of the activity of Eurycea b. bislineata in Quebec. Herpetologica 31:433-439.
19. MADISON, D. M., J. C. MAERZ, AND J. D. MCDARBY. 1999a. Chemosensory avoidance of snake odors by salamanders: freeze and flight contingencies. Pp. 508-516. In R. E. Johnston, D. Müller-Schwarze, and P. Sorensen (Eds.), Advances in Chemical Communication in Vertebrates. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
20. _. 1999b. Optimization of predator avoidance by salamanders using chemical cues: diet and diel effects. Ethology 105:1073-1086.
21. MADISON, D. M., A. M. SULLIVAN, J. C. MAERZ, J. H. MCDARBY, AND J. R. ROHR. 2002. A complex, cross-taxon, chemical releaser of anti-predator behavior in amphibians. Journal of Chemical Ecology 28:2271-2282.
22. MAERZ, J. C., N. L. PANEBIANCO, AND D. M. MADISON. 2001. The effects of predator chemical cues and behavioral biorhythms on the foraging activity of terrestrial salamanders. Journal of Chemical Ecology 27:1333-1344.
23. MATHIS, A., AND R. J. F. SMITH. 1993. Fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, learn to recognize northern pike, Esox lucius, as predators on the basis of chemical stimuli from minnows in the pike's diet. Animal Behaviour 46:645-656.
24. MCDARBY, J. D., D. M. MADISON, AND J. C. MAERZ. 1999. Chemosensory avoidance of predators by the red-backed salamander, Plethodon cinereus. Pp. 489-495. In R. E. Johnston, D. Müller-Schwarze, and P. Sorensen (Eds.), Advances in Chemical Communication in Vertebrates. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
25. MURRAY, D. L., AND C. L. JENKINS. 1999. Perceived predation risk as a function of predator dietary cues in terrestrial salamanders. Animal Behaviour 57:33-39.
26. PERSONS, M. H., S. E. WALKER, A. L. RYPSTRA, AND S. D. MARSHALL. 2001. Wolf spider predator avoidance tactics and survival in the presence of diet-associated predator cues (Araneae: Lycosidae). Animal Behaviour 61:43-51.
27. ROHR, J. R., D. M. MADISON, AND A. M. SULLIVAN. 2003. On temporal variation and conflicting selection pressures: a test of theory using newts. Ecology 84:1816-1826.
28. ROSSMAN, D. A., N. B. FORD, AND R. A. SEIGEL. 1996. The Garter Snakes: Evolution and Ecology. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
29. SMITH, R. J. F. 1992. Alarm signals in fishes. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 2:33-63.
30. SOKAL, R. R., AND F. J. ROHLF. 1995. Biometry. Freeman, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
31. SULLIVAN, A. M., J. C. MAERZ, AND D. M. MADISON. 2002. Anti-predator response of red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) to chemical cues from garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis): laboratory and field experiments. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51:227-233.
32. SULLIVAN, A. M., J. R. ROHR, AND D. M. MADISON. 2003. Behavioural responses by red-backed salamanders to conspecific and heterospecific cues. Behaviour 140:553-564.
33. SULLIVAN, A. M., D. M. MADISON, AND J. C. MAERZ. 2004. Nocturnal shift in the antipredator response to predator chemical cues: laboratory and field trials. In Press. In R. T. Mason, M. P. LeMaster, and D. Müller-Schwarze (Eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates X. Kluwer/Academic/Plenum Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
34. VENZON, M., A. JANSSEN, A. PALLINI, AND M. W. SABELIS. 2000. Diet of a polyphagus arthropod predator affects refuge seeking of its thrips prey. Animal Behaviour 60:369-375.
35. WELDON, P. J. 1990. Responses of vertebrates to chemicals from predators. Pp. 500-521. In D. W. Macdonald, D. Müller-Schwarze, and R. M. Silverstein (Eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates V. Plenum Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
36. WILDY, E. L., D. P. CHIVERS, AND A. R. BLAUSTEIN. 1999. Shifts in life history traits as a response to cannibalism in long-toed salamanders (Ambystoma macrodactylum). Journal of Chemical Ecology 25:2337-2346.
37. WILSON, D. J., AND H. LEFCOURT. 1993. The effect of predator diet on the alarm response of red-legged frog, Rana aurora, tadpoles. Animal Behaviour 46:1017-1019.
38. WILSON, E. O. 1975. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusettes, U.S.A.