Ecological and evolutionary traps.

By M. Schlaepfer, Michael C. Runge, Paul W. Sherman. 2002

1,425 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• Garden Bird Feeding: Insights and Prospects from a North-South Comparison of This Global Urban Phenomenon (2017, background): “Artificially increasing food availability through feeding birds in urban centers has the potential to act as an ecological trap (Schlaepfer et al., 2002).”
• The dragonfly delusion: why it is essential to sample exuviae to avoid biased surveys (2010, result): “These observations, together with our finding that odonates oviposited in all ponds irrespectively of pond quality, imply that their evolutionary cues for habitat selection encourage odonates to make what are currently poor habitat choices (Schlaepfer et al. 2002; Van Dyck 2009).”
• Socially learned foraging behaviour in wild black bears, Ursus americanus (2008, background): “We define an ecological trap as a previously adaptive behaviour that has become maladaptive in a human-altered environment (Schlaepfer et al. 2002).”
• Edge effects and the impact of non‐protected areas in carnivore conservation: leopards in the Phinda–Mkhuze Complex, South Africa (2010, background): “Therefore, besides high anthropogenic mortality, the NPAs represented suitable leopard habitat and may have functioned as an ecological trap, that is, an area with disproportionate mortality that would otherwise provide suitable resources (Delibes, Goana & Ferreras, 2001; Schlaepfer, Runge & Sherma”
• Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) in urban ecosystems: A review (2016, background): “…suitable sites or the unsuitable habitats mimic the cues that species use for selecting ideal habitats, leading species to choose unsuitable habitats over the optimal sites for roosting, feeding, and mostly reproducing (Donovan & Thompson, 2001; Schlaepfer et al., 2002; Robertson & Hutto, 2006).”
• Ecological traps for dragonflies in a cemetery: the attraction of Sympetrum species (Odonata: Libellulidae) by horizontally polarizing black gravestones (2007, background): “All these man-made substrata may constitute ecological traps sensu Schlaepfer et al. (2002) , thus reducing the insect’s individual fitness.”
• Dynamic wildlife habitat models: Seasonal foods and mortality risk predict occupancy-abundance and habitat selection in grizzly bears (2010, background): “When in the presence of maladaptive habitat selection, the management for selected habitats may even hasten population decline by adding ecological traps/attractive sinks (Schlaepfer et al., 2002; Nielsen et al., 2006, 2008).”
• Providing nest boxes for hole-nesting birds – Does habitat matter? (2005, background): “An ecological trap can arise in different ways (Kokko and Sutherland 2001; Schlaepfer et al. 2002): (1) the environment of the organism has been altered so that, although the original cue still elicits its normal behavioural response, there is no longer a match between the behaviour and environment…”
• Avian habitat evaluation: should counting birds count? (2004, background): “Remes (2003) concluded that the exotic plantation was an “ecological trap” – defined as a poor-quality area or habitat that nevertheless attracts large numbers of individuals (Schlaepfer et al. 2002).”
• Influence of habitat degradation on fish replenishment (2010, background): “As disturbance events become increasingly frequent on coral reefs, it is likely that sensory cues that were once reliable indicators of habitat quality will become less dependable, thereby ‘trapping’ animals in sub-optimal habitats ( Schlaepfer et al. 2002; McCormick 2009; Munday et al. 2009).”
• Costs of group-living for a normally solitary forager: effects of provisioning tourism on southern stingrays Dasyatis americana (2008, background): “This last phenomenon is known as an ecological trap (Schlaepfer et al. 2002).”