Behavioural flexibility predicts species richness in birds, but not extinction risk

By Nektaria Nicolakakis, D. Sol, L. Lefebvre. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Innovative problem solving in birds: a key role of motor diversity (2014, background): “These findings suggest that behavioural innovations provide a source of phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptation (Nicolakakis et al., 2003).”
The role of behavior in evolution: a search for mechanism (2008, background): “Recent tests of these ideas found that behavioral flexibility as measured by brain size is associated with higher species richness in birds (Nicolakakis et al. 2003; Sol et al. 2005b) and is also linked to invasion success supporting the idea that behavioral flexibility enhances colonization…”
Problem-solving performance is correlated with reproductive success in a wild bird population (2013, background): “…number of species (Lefebvre et al. 1997; Lefebvre 2011), is positively correlated with species introduction success (Sol et al. 2002), habitat generalism (Overington et al. 2011b), urbanization (Liker & Bokony 2009; Sol et al. 2011) and species richness (Nicolakakis et al. 2003; Sol et al. 2005b).”
The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution (2003, background): “The recent demonstration that feeding innovations are correlated with species numbers in parvorders of birds ( Nicolakakis et al. 2003 ) may partly reflect this diversifying role of plasticity.”
Innovation and social learning: individual variation and brain evolution * (2003, unknown): “…measures such as tool use frequencies, enhanced rates of evolutionary divergence, and ecologically important factors such as the success of birds introduced to novel environments (Wyles et al., 1983; Timmermans et al., 2000; Lefebvre et al., 2002; Sol et al., 2002; Nicolakakis et al., 2003).”
The origin and spread of innovations in starlings (2008, background): “Behavioural innovations are an important source of phenotypic plasticity in animals, with potentially significant ecological and evolutionary consequences (Nicolakakis et al. 2003; Reader & Laland 2003).”
Who are the innovators? A field experiment with 2 passerine species (2011, background): “2005) and show a greater number of species per taxon, suggesting a link between innovativeness and speciation rates (Nicolakakis et al. 2003).”
Food stealing in birds: brain or brawn? (2007, background): “…correlates closely (r 2 ¼ 0.95) with residual number of neurons (Herculano-Houzel et al. 2006; S. Herculano-Houzel, personal communication), and 96% of the variance in the residual size of the mesopallium and nidopallium can be predicted by the residual size of the brain (Nicolakakis et al. 2003).”
Effects of learning on evolution: robustness, innovation and speciation (2013, background): “As for innovation, comparative data in birds indicate a positive correlation between the frequency of reported novel feeding behaviours and the number of species per taxon (Nicolakakis et al. 2003).”
Brains, Innovations and Evolution in Birds and Primates (2004, background): “Current comparative evidence does not support this hypothesis, however [Nicolakakis et al., 2003].”
A comparison of innovative problem-solving abilities between wild and captive spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta (2013, background): “Despite the potentially important ecological and evolutionary consequences of innovation (Nicolakakis et al. 2003; Reader & Laland 2003), research on this subject has been limited in scope.”
Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear : how life history and natural history traits affect disturbance tolerance in birds (2006, background): “Corvids also have relatively large brains and have high rates of feeding innovations, characteristics associated with species richness (Nicolakakis et al. 2003).”