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The Ecology of Exercise: Mechanisms Underlying Individual Variation in Behavior, Activity, and Performance: An Introduction to Symposium

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INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
卷 57, 期 2, 页码 185-194

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icx083

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  1. National Science Foundation
  2. Company of Biologists
  3. British Ecological Society
  4. Loligo Systems
  5. SICB Division of Animal Behaviour
  6. SICB Division of Comparative
  7. SICB Division of Biomechanics
  8. SICB Division of Physiology
  9. SICB Division of Biochemistry
  10. SICB Division of Ecology and Evolution
  11. SICB Division of Vertebrate Morphology
  12. Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada [155395-2012-RGPIN, RGPAS/429387-2012]
  13. Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J019100/1]
  14. European Research Council [640004]
  15. NERC [NE/J019100/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  16. Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J019100/1] Funding Source: researchfish

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Wild animals often engage in intense physical activity while performing tasks vital for their survival and reproduction associated with foraging, avoiding predators, fighting, providing parental care, and migrating. In this theme issue we consider how viewing these tasks as exercise-analogous to that performed by human athletes-may help provide insight into the mechanisms underlying individual variation in these types of behaviors and the importance of physical activity in an ecological context. In this article and throughout this issue, we focus on four key questions relevant to the study of behavioral ecology that may be addressed by studying wild animal behavior from the perspective of exercise physiology: (1) How hard do individual animals work in response to ecological (or evolutionary) demands?; (2) Do lab-based studies of activity provide good models for understanding activity in free-living animals and individual variation in traits?; (3) Can animals work too hard during routine activities?; and (4) Can paradigms of exercise and training be applied to free-living animals? Attempts to address these issues are currently being facilitated by rapid technological developments associated with physiological measurements and the remote tracking of wild animals, to provide mechanistic insights into the behavior of free-ranging animals at spatial and temporal scales that were previously impossible. We further suggest that viewing the behaviors of non-human animals in terms of the physical exercise performed will allow us to fully take advantage of these technological advances, draw from knowledge and conceptual frameworks already in use by human exercise physiologists, and identify key traits that constrain performance and generate variation in performance among individuals. It is our hope that, by highlighting mechanisms of behavior and performance, the articles in this issue will spur on further synergies between physiologists and ecologists, to take advantage of emerging cross-disciplinary perspectives and technologies.

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