Behavioral interactions between salamanders and centipedes: Competition in divergent taxa

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 679-685

  Hickerson, Cari Ann M ^a,b   Anthony, Carl D ^a   Wicknick, Jill A ^a,c  

^a JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Centipede; Plethodon cinereus; Salamander; Scolopocryptops sexspinosus; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRITORIALITY;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; CHILOPODA; CRYPTOPIDAE; ENTEROBACTER; INVERTEBRATA; PLETHODON; PLETHODON CINEREUS; REPTILIA; SCOLOPOCRYPTOPS SEXSPINOSUS;

EID: 3042783335     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh064     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Anthony CD, Wicknick JA, Jaeger RG, 1997. Social interactions in two sympatric salamanders: effectiveness of a highly aggressive strategy. Behaviour 134:71-88.
2. Anthony CD, Wicknick JA, Jaeger RG, 2002. Site tenacity and homing in the Rich Mountain salamander, Plethodon ouachitae (Caudata: Plethodontidae). Southwest Nat 47:401-408.
3. Blower JG, 1955. Millipedes and centipedes as soil animals. Soil Zool Univ Nottingham Proc 138-151.
4. Connell JH, 1961. The influence of interspecific competition and other factors on distribution of the barnacle Chthamalus stellatus. Ecology 42:710-723.
5. Darwin C, 1859. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life. New York: New American Library.
6. Ducey PK, Schramm K, Cambry N, 1993. Interspecific aggression between the sympatric salamanders, Ambystoma maculatum and Plethodon cinereus. Am Mid Nat 131:320-329.
7. Faragher SG, Jaeger RG, 1997. Distributions of adult and juvenile red-back salamanders: testing new hypotheses regarding territoriality. Copeia 1997:410-414.
8. Formanowicz Jr, DR, Bradley PJ, 1987. Fluctuations in prey density: effects on the foraging tactics of scolopendrid centipedes. Anim Behav 35:453-461.
9. Fraser DF, 1976. Empirical evaluation of the hypothesis of food competition in salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Ecology 57:459-471.
10. Gabor CR, 1995. Correlational test of Mathis' hypothesis that bigger salamanders have better territories. Copeia 1995:729-735.
11. Gall SB, Anthony CD, Wicknick JA, 2003. Are behavioral interactions between salamanders and beetles indicative of a guild relationship? Amer Mid Nat 149:363-374.
12. Gergits WF, 1982. Interference competition and territoriality between the terrestrial salamanders Plethodon cinereus and Plethodon shenandoah (MS thesis). Albany, New York: State University of New York at Albany.
13. Gergits WF, Jaeger RG, 1990. Site attachment by the red-backed salamander, Plethodon cinereus. J Herpetol 24:91-93.
14. Hairston NG, 1980. Evolution under interspecific competition: field experiments on terrestrial salamanders. Evolution 34:409-420.
15. Hoffman RL, 1954. Distributional records of two species of Plethodon in the southern Appalachians. Herpetologica 10:191-193.
16. Holmes RT, Bonney RE Jr, Pacala SW, 1979. Guild structure of the Hubbard Brook bird community: a multivariate approach. Ecology 62:512-520.
17. Horne EA, Jaeger RG, 1988. Territorial pheromones of female red-backed salamanders. Ethology 78:143-152.
18. Hurlbert SH, 1984. Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments. Ecol Monogr 54:187-211.
19. Jaeger RG, 1979. Seasonal spatial distributions of the territorial salamander Plethodon cinereus. Herpetologica 35:90-93.
20. Jaeger RG, 1981. Dear enemy recognition and the costs of aggression between salamanders. Am Nat 117:962-974.
21. Jaeger RG, 1984. Agonistic behavior of the red-backed salamander. Copeia 1984:309-314.
22. Jaeger RG, 1990. Territorial salamanders evaluate size and chitinous content of arthropod prey. In: Behavioural mechanisms of food selection (Hughes, RN, ed). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag; 111-126.
23. Jaeger RG, Barnard DE, 1981. Foraging tactics of a terrestrial salamander: choice of diet in a structurally simple environment. Am Nat 117:639-664.
24. Jaeger RG, Gabor CR, Wilbur HM, 1998. An assemblage of salamanders in the southern Appalachian mountains: competitive and predatory behavior. Behaviour 135:795-821.
25. Jaeger RG, Goy JM, Tarver M, Marquez CE, 1986. Salamander territoriality: pheromonal markers as advertisement by males. Anim Behav 34:860-864.
26. Jaeger RG, Kalvarsky D, Shimizu N, 1982. Territorial behavior of the red-backed salamander: expulsion of intruders. Anim Behav 30: 490-496.
27. Jaksic FM, 1981. Abuse and misuse of the term "guild" in ecological studies. Oikos 37:397-400.
28. Joern A, Lawlor LR, 1981. Guild structure in grasshopper assemblages based on food and microhabitat resources. Oikos 37:93-104.
29. Lewis JGE, 1981. The biology of centipedes. London: Cambridge University Press.
30. Littlewood PMH, Blower JG, 1987. The chemosensory behavior of Lithobius forficatus: evidence for a pheromone released by the coxal organs (Myripoda: Chilopoda). J Zool 211:65-82.
31. Lopez P, Martin J, 2001. Chemosensory predator recognition induces specific defensive behaviors in a fossorial amphisbaenian. Anim Behav 62:259-264.
32. MacMahon JA, 1976. Species and guild similarity of North American desert mammal faunas: a functional analysis of communities. Evol Desert Biota 133-148.
33. Marvin GA, 1998. Interspecific aggression and spatial relationships in the salamanders Plethodon kentucki and Plethodon glutinosus: evidence of interspecific competition. Can J Zool 76:94-103.
34. Mathis A, 1990a. Territoriality in a terrestrial salamander: the influence of resource quality and body size. Behaviour 112:162-175.
35. Mathis A, 1990b. Territorial salamanders assess sexual and competitive information using chemical signals. Anim Behav 40:953-962.
36. Mathis A, Schmidt DW, Medley KA, 2000. The influence of residency status on agonistic behavior of male and female Ozark zigzag salamanders, Plethodon angusticlavius. Am Mid Nat 143:245-249.
37. Morin PJ, Lawler SP, Johnson EA, 1988. Competition between aquatic insects and vertebrates: interaction strength and higher order interactions. Ecology 69:1401-1409.
38. Nishikawa KC, 1985. Competition and the evolution of aggressive behavior in two species of terrestrial salamander. Evolution 39:1282-1294.
39. Petranka JW, 1998. Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
40. Pfingsten RA, Downs FL, 1989. Salamanders of Ohio. Ohio Biol Surv Bull New Series 7:1-315.
41. Pianka ER, 1980. Guild structure in desert lizards. Oikos 35:194-201.
42. Quinn VS, Graves BM, 1999. Space use in response to conspecifics by the red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus, Plethodontidae, Caudata). Ethology 105:993-1002.
43. Roberts RB, 1956. An ecological study of the arthropods of a mixed beech-oak woodland, with particular reference to Lithobiidae (PhD dissertation). Highfield: University of Southampton.
44. Root RB, 1967. The niche exploitation pattern of the blue-gray gnatcatcher. Ecol Monogr 37:317-350.
45. Schoener TW, Spiller DA, 1987. Effect of lizards on spider populations: manipulative reconstruction of a natural experiment. Science 236:949-952.
46. Shelley RM, 2002. A Synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilipoda). Martinsville, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Natural History, memoir no. 5.
47. Simons RR, Jaeger RG, Felgenhauer BE, 1997. Competitor assessment and area defense by territorial salamanders. Copeia 1997:70-76.
48. Summers G, Uetz GW, 1979. Microhabitats of woodland centipedes in a streamside forest. Am Mid Nat 102:346-352.
49. Williams SR, Hefner RA, 1928. The millipedes and centipedes of Ohio. Ohio Bio Surv Bull 33:93-146.
50. Wise SE, Jaeger RG, 1998. The influence of tail autotomy on agonistic behavior in a terrestrial salamander. Anim Behav 55:1707-1716.
51. Wrobel DJ, Gergits WF, Jaeger RG, 1980. An experimental study of interference competition among terrestrial salamanders. Ecology 61:1034-1039.
52. Zar JH, 1999. Biostatistical analysis, 4th ed. Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.