Why behavioural responses may not reflect the population consequences of human disturbance

By J. Gill, K. Norris, W. J. Sutherland. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Behavioural responses to human disturbance: a matter of choice? (2004, positive): “Gill et al. (2001) described how the priorities that animals assign to different activities can affect the behavioural response they show to disturbance.”
The Long-term Consequences of Short-term Responses to Disturbance Experiences from Whalewatching Impact Assessment (2007, background): “Indeed interpreting behavioral responses outside the biological and ecological context in which they are studied has been shown to be uninformative (Beale & Monaghan, 2004; Bejder, Samuels, Whitehead & Gales, 2006a; Gill, Norris, & Sutherland, 2001 ).”
Synthesis Human-caused Disturbance Stimuli as a Form of Predation Risk (2002, background): “Their models predict how densitydependent processes interact with food distribution and disturbance stimuli to determine habitat shifts and population dynamics (Gill et al. 1996, 2001, Gill and Sutherland 2000).”
Vessel traffic disrupts the foraging behavior of southern resident killer whales Orcinus orca (2009, background): “Indeed, inter-specific variability in site fidelity and availability of alternative suitable habitat make it difficult to infer populationlevel consequences from inter-specific variability in sensitivity to disturbance (Gill et al. 2001).”
The effect of recreational disturbance on an upland breeding bird, the golden plover Pluvialis apricaria (2005, background): “The extent to which the increasing use of the countryside for recreation may have adverse effects on wildlife is a growing conservation issue (Gill et al., 2001b; Papouchis et al., 2001).”
Decline in Relative Abundance of Bottlenose Dolphins Exposed to Long‐Term Disturbance (2006, background): “Moreover, traditional interpretations of behavioral change in response to disturbance have been questioned recently (e.g., Nisbet 2000; Gill et al. 2001; Beale & Monaghan 2004b; Bejder et al. in press).”
The Negative Impacts of Whale-Watching (2012, neutral): “In noncetaceans, researchers have noted that sometimes the most vulnerable animals do not react or move away from a disturbance, possibly because they lack the energy surplus to do so [89, 90].”
The Behavioral Ecology of Disturbance Responses (2007, positive): “Leaving a foraging area might be assumed to be a negative impact (as noted by Gill, Norris, & Sutherland, 2001a ), but the impact is likely to be largely negligible compared with the impact on the animal subjected to repeated stimuli in the second example that showed no behavioral effect but may su”
Antipredator behavior in blackbirds: habituation complements risk allocation (2009, result): “Our results propose a potential mechanism to explain why the most responsive animals (e.g., high FID) may not be necessarily the most negatively affected by human disturbance ( Gill et al. 2001; Beale and Monaghan 2004).”
Testing the minimum approach distance guidelines for incubating Royal penguins Eudyptes schlegeli (2005, background): “…because penguins are subject to greater energetic pressure during years of poor food availability, as they have to travel further for less food (Davis and Renner, 2003), human activity is thought to have greater implications during these times (but see Gill et al., 2001; Beale and Monaghan, 2004b).”
The impacts of anthropogenic ocean noise on cetaceans and implications for management (2007, background): “Individuals with lower energy reserves or no alternative habitat cannot afford to flee repeatedly from disturbance but are forced to remain and continue feeding, apparently unresponsive to disruption (Gill et al. 2001; Stillman and GossCustard 2002).”
Dolphin-watching tour boats change bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) behaviour (2004, background): “Many factors affect animals’ habitat use decisions, including proximity of equally high-quality sites, relative risk of predation, and density of competitors (Gill et al., 2001).”
Recreation and large mammal activity in an urban nature reserve (2006, background): “It is often assumed that species behaviorally avoiding disturbances are most susceptible to them, but behavioral avoidance may not always be the best predictor of which species are adversely affected by disturbance (Gill and Sutherland, 2000; Gill et al., 2001).”