Competing for crevices: Interspecific conflict influences retreat-site selection in montane lizards

Oecologia

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 684-691

  Langkilde, Tracy ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Egernia; Eulamprus; Habitat; Shelter; Skink

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIZARD; REFUGE; SITE SELECTION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; LIZARD; MORPHOMETRICS; NESTING; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; LIZARDS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NEW SOUTH WALES; OBSERVATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EGERNIA; EULAMPRUS; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4544256245     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1640-1     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Adolph SC (1990) Influence of behavioral thermoregulation on microhabitat use by two Sceloporus lizards. Ecology 71:315-327
2. Akin JA (1998) Intra- and inter-sexual aggression in the ground skink (Scincella lateralis). Can J Zool 76:87-93
3. Bay LK, Jones GP, McCormick MI (2001) Habitat selection and aggression as determinants of spatial segregation among damselfish on a coral reef. Coral Reefs 20:289-298
4. Bourski OV, Forstmeier W (2000) Does interspecific competition affect territorial distribution of birds? A long-term study on Siberian Phylloscopus warblers. Oikos 88:341-350
5. Brodman R, Jaskula J (2002) Activity and microhabitat use during interactions among five species of pond-breeding salamander larvae. Herpetologica 58:346-354
6. Bretons L, Orell M, Lahti K, Koivula K (2000) Age-related microhabitat segregation in willow tit Parus montanus winter flocks. Ethology 106:993-1005
7. Brown JH (1970) Mechanisms of competitive exclusion between two species of Chipmunks. Ecology 52:305-311
8. Carpenter CC (1974) Aggression and social structure in iguanid lizards. In: Milstead WM (ed) Lizard ecology: a symposium. University of Missouri Press, Mo.
9. Case TJ, Bolger DT (1991) The role of interspecific competition in the biogeography of island lizards. Trees 6:135-139
10. Case TJ, Bolger DT, Petren K (1994) Invasions and competitive displacement among house geckos in the tropical Pacific. Ecology 75:464-477
11. Cogger HG (2000) Reptiles and amphibians of Australia. Reed, New Holland
12. Cooke R, Wallis R, White J (2002) Use of vegetative structure by powerful owls in outer urban Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: implications for management. J Raptor Res 36:294-299
13. Dow DD (1979) Agonistic and spacing behavior of the noisy miner Manorina melanocephala a communally breeding honey-eater. Ibis 121:423-436
14. Downes SJ, Bauwens D (2002) An experimental demonstration of direct behavioural interference in two Mediterranean lacertid lizard species. Anim Behav 63:1037-1046
15. Downes SJ, Shine R (1998) Heat, safety or solitude? Using habitat selection experiments to identify a lizards priorities. Anim Behav 55:1387-1396
16. Dunham AE (1980) An experimental study on interspecific competition between the iguanid lizards Sceloporus merriami and Urosaunis ornatus. Ecol Monogr 50:309-330
17. Ford HA, Barrett GW, Saunders DA, Recher HF (2001) Why have birds in the woodlands of Southern Australia declined? Biol Conserv 97:71-88
18. Franke H, Janke M (1998) Mechanisms and consequences of intra-and interspecific interference competition in Idotea baltica (Pallas) and Idotea emarginata (Fabricius) (Crustacea, Isopoda): a laboratory study of possible proximate causes of habitat segregation. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 227:1-21
19. Grant PR (1972) Interspecific competition among rodents. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 3:79-106
20. Greer AE (1989) The biology and evolution of Australian lizards. Surrey Beatty, NSW
21. Grey MJ, Clarke MF, Loyn RH (1998) Influence of the Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala on avian diversity and abundance in remnant Grey Box woodland. Pac Conserv Biol 4:55-69
22. Harwood RH (1979) The effect of temperature on the digestive efficiency of three species of lizards, Cnemidophorus tigris, Gerrhonotus multicarinatus and Sceloporus occidentalis. Comp Biochem Physiol 63A:417-433
23. Heatwole H (1977) Habitat selection in reptiles. In: Gans AC, Tinkle DW (eds) Biology of the reptilia, vol 7. Ecology and behaviour. Academic Press, New York, pp 137-155
24. Hegge O, Dervo BK, Skurdal J, Hessen DO (1989) Habitat utilization by sympatric Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus L. and brown trout Salmo trutta L. in Lake Atnsjo south-east Norway. Freshwater Biol 22:143-152
25. Hertz PE, Fleishman LJ, Armsby C (1994) The influence of light intensity and temperature on microhabitat selection in two Anolis lizards. Funct Ecol 8
26. Howard KE, Hailey A (1999) Microhabitat separation among diurnal saxicolous lizards in Zimbabwe. J Trop Ecol 15:367-378
27. Inger RF, Greenberg B (1966) Ecological and competitive relations among three species of frogs (genus Rana). Ecology 47:746-759
28. Jaeger RG (1971) Competitive exclusion as a factor influencing the distributions of two species of terrestrial salamanders. Ecology 52:632-637
29. Jenssen TA (1973) Shifts in structural habitat of Anolis opalinus due to congeneric competition. Ecology 54:863-869
30. Jenssen TA, Marcellini DL, Pague CA, Jenssen LA (1984) Competitive interference between the Puerto Rican Lizards, Anolis cooki and A. cristatellus. Copeia 1984:855-862
31. Kearney M (2002) Hot rocks and much-too-hot rocks: seasonal patterns of retreat-site selection by a nocturnal ectotherm. J Therm Biol 27:205-218
32. Kostrzewa A (1991) Interspecific interference competition in three European raptor species. Ethol Ecol Evol 3:127-144
33. Landwer AJ, Ferguson GW (2002) Long-term structural habitat use of male individuals of two native and one introduced Anolis (Iguanidae) species on the north coast of Jamaica. Tex J Sci 54:51-58
34. Langkilde T, O'Connor D, Shine R (2003) Shelter-site use by five species of montane scincid lizards in southeastern Australia. Aust J Zool 51:175-186
35. Leal M, Rodriguez-Robles JA, Loso JB (1998) An experimental study of interspecific interactions between two Puerto Rican Anolis lizards. Oecologia 1998:273-278
36. Loses JB (1994) Integrative approaches to evolutionary ecology: Anolis lizards as model systems. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 25:467-493
37. Losos JB (1995) Community evolution in Greater Antillean Anolis lizards - phylogenetic patterns and experimental tests. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 349:69-75
38. Losos JB (1996) Dynamics of range expansion by three introduced species of Anolis lizards on Bermuda. J Herpetol 30:204-210
39. Losos JB, Marks J, Schoener T (1993) Habitat use and ecological interactions of an introduced and a native species of Anolis lizard on Grand Cayman, with a review of the outcomes of anole introductions. Oecologia 95:525-532
40. Mac Nally R, Horrocks G (2002) Relative influences of patch, landscape and historical factors on birds in an Australian fragmented landscape. J Biogeogr 29:395-410
41. Mahrt LA (1998) Territorial establishment and maintenance by female tree lizards, Urosaurus ornatus. J Herpetol 32:176-182
42. Marra PP, Sherry TW, Holmes RT (1993) Territorial exclusion by a long-distance migrant warbler in Jamaica: a removal experiment with American redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla). Auk 110:565-572
43. Martin P, Bateson P (1993) Measuring behaviour: an introductory guide, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, New York
44. Marvin GA (1998) Interspecific aggression and spatial relationships in the salamanders Plethodon kentucki and Plethodon glutinosus: evidence of interspecific interference competition. Can J Zool 76:94-103
45. M'Closkey RT, Deslippe RJ, Szpak CP, Baia KA (1990) Tree lizard distribution and mating system: the influence of habitat and food resources. Can J Zool 68:2083-2089
46. Melville J (2002) Competition and character displacement in two species of scincid lizards. Ecol Lett 5:386-393
47. Milton DA, Hughes JM (1986) Habitat selection by two closely related skinks, Egernia modesta Storr and Egernia whitii Lacepede (Lacertilia, Scincidae). Aust Wildl Res 13:295-300
48. Morrison ML, Kuenzi AJ, Brown CF, Swann DE (2002) Habitat use and abundance trends of rodents in southeastern Arizona. Southwest Nat 47:519-526
49. O'Connor D, Shine R (2003) Lizards in 'nuclear families': a novel reptilian social system in Egernia saxatilis (Scincidae). Mol Ecol 12:743-752
50. Okano T, Suzuki H, Horie M (2003) Habitat use and activity patterns of three Japanese freshwater crabs of the genus Geothelphusa (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae). J Crustacean Biol 23:308-317
51. Pacala S, Roughgarden J (1982) Resource partitioning and interspecific competition in two two-species insular Anolis lizard communities. Science 217:444-446
52. Palomares F, Caro TM (1999) Interspecific killing among mammalian carnivores. Am Nat 153:492-508
53. Paulissen MA, Meyer HA (2000) The effect of toe-clipping on the gecko Hemidactylus turcicus. J Herpetol 34:282-285
54. Payer DC, Harrison DJ (2003) Influence of forest structure on habitat use by American marten in an industrial forest. For Ecol Manage 179:145-156
55. Pearson SF, Rohwer S (1999) Asymmetries in male aggression across an avian hybrid zone. Behav Ecol 11:93-101
56. Pyke GH, White AW, Bishop PJ, Waldman B (2002) Habitat-use by the Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea in Australia and New Zealand. Aust Zool 32:12-31
57. Rand AS (1969) Competitive exclusion among anoles (Sauria, Iguanidae) on small islands in the West Indies. Brevoria 319:1-16
58. Reed TM (1982) Interspecific territoriality in the chaffinch and great tit and the mainland of Scotland: playback ad removal experiments. Anim Behav 30:171-181
59. Robertson RD (1996) Interspecific competition controls abundance and habitat use of territorial Carribean Damselfishes. Ecology 77:885-899
60. Robinson SK, Terborgh J (1995) Interspecific aggression and habitat selection by Amazonian birds. J Anim Ecol 64:1-11
61. Roussel JM, Bardonnet A (2002) The habitat of juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) in small streams: preferences, movements, diel and seasonal variations. B Fr Peche Piscic 2002:435-454
62. Rummel JD, Roughgarden J (1985) Effects of reduced perch-height separation on competition between two Anolis lizards. Ecology 66:430-444
63. Schoener TW, Spiller DA, Losos JB (2002) Predation on a common Anolis lizard: can the food-web effects of a devastating predator be reversed? Ecol Monogr 72:383-407
64. Shulman MJ (1985) Coral reef fish assemblages: intra- and interspecific competition for shelter sites. Environ Biol Fish 13:81-92
65. Tannerfield M, Elmhagen B, Angerbjorn A (2002) Exclusion by interference competition? The relationship between red and arctic foxes. Oecologia 132:213-220
66. Torre I, Bosch M (1999) Effects of sex and breeding status on habitat selection by feral house mice (Mus musculus) on a small Mediterranean island. Z Saeugetierkd 64:176-186
67. Torres-Orozco RE, Jimenez-Sierra CL, Vogt RC, Benitez JV (2002) Neotropical tadpoles: spatial and temporal distribution and habitat use in a seasonal lake in Veracruz, Mexico. Phyllomedusa 1:81-91
68. Van Damme R, Bauwens D, Verheyen RF (1991) The thermal dependence of feeding behavior, food consumption and gut-passage time in the lizard Lacerta vivipara Jacquin. Funct Ecol 5:507-515
69. Vaughan RK, Dixon JR, Cooke JL (1996) Behavioral interference for perch sites in two species of introduced house geckos. J Herpetol 30:46-51
70. Whiting MJ (1996) When to be neighbourly: differential agonistic responses in the lizard Platysaurus broadleyi. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 46:210-214
71. Williams EE (1969) The ecology of colonization as seen in the zoogeography of anoline lizards on small islands. Q Rev Biol 44:345-389