Risk assessment in western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis): do multiple cues have additive effects?

By Michael E. Smith, M. Belk. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Wall lizards combine chemical and visual cues of ambush snake predators to avoid overestimating risk inside refuges (2004, unknown): “Similar results were obtained in a study of the mosquitofish, G. affinis, which increased avoidance behaviour when chemical and visual cues of predatory fish were presented (Smith & Belk 2001).”
The relative importance of the face and body in judgments of human physical attractiveness (2009, background): “Alternatively, multiple cues may be assessed additively (Kunzler & Bakker, 2001; Smith & Belk, 2001), sequentially, or hierarchically (Gibson, 1996).”
Context-dependent group size choice in fish (2004, background): “Fish can integrate multiple cues regarding predatory threats ( Smith & Belk 2001 ) and it seems likely that killifish in our study displayed a graded, threat-sensitive response (sensu Helfman 1989) to our nondirectional alarm cue, allowing them to retain some of the safety benefits of group membersh”
Effects of risk, cost, and their interaction on optimal escape by nonrefuging Bonaire whiptail lizards, Cnemidophorus murinus (2003, background): “Smith and Belk (2001) considered that simultaneously acting risk factors must have additive effects under the threat-sensitivity hypothesis.”
Effects of group size on the threat-sensitive response to varying concentrations of chemical alarm cues by juvenile convict cichlids (2006, background): “…learning (Kelley and Magurran 2003), familiarity and (or) relatedness among group members (Chivers et al. 1995; Ward and Hart 2003; Hoare et al. 2004), ontogeny (Chivers et al. 2001; Golub and Brown 2003), and availability of additional information (Brown and Godin 1999; Smith and Belk 2001).”
Predation risk assessment by olfactory and visual cues in a coral reef fish (2008, background): “ Smith and Belk (2001) also noted that there are situations where additivity in response to predator cues may not be expected; for instance, when predator cues overlap in information, responding twice as strongly to two diVerent cues providing the same information may be uneconomical.”