JANČA, Matouš and Lumír GVOŽDÍK. Costly neighbours: Heterospecific competitive interactions increase metabolic rates in dominant species. Scientific Reports. LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2017, vol. 7, July, p. nestránkováno, 6 pp. ISSN 2045-2322. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05485-9.
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Original name Costly neighbours: Heterospecific competitive interactions increase metabolic rates in dominant species
Authors JANČA, Matouš (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Lumír GVOŽDÍK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor).
Edition Scientific Reports, LONDON, NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2017, 2045-2322.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 4.122
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/17:00097322
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05485-9
UT WoS 000405421400017
Keywords in English INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL SALAMANDER; ENERGY-METABOLISM; NATURAL-SELECTION; NEWTS; SIZE; CONSEQUENCES; AGGRESSION; PHYSIOLOGY
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Abstract
The energy costs of self-maintenance (standard metabolic rate, SMR) vary substantially among individuals within a population. Despite the importance of SMR for understanding life history strategies, ecological sources of SMR variation remain only partially understood. Stress-mediated increases in SMR are common in subordinate individuals within a population, while the direction and magnitude of the SMR shift induced by interspecific competitive interactions is largely unknown. Using laboratory experiments, we examined the influence of con-and heterospecific pairing on SMR, spontaneous activity, and somatic growth rates in the sympatrically living juvenile newts Ichthyosaura alpestris and Lissotriton vulgaris. The experimental pairing had little influence on SMR and growth rates in the smaller species, L. vulgaris. Individuals exposed to con-and heterospecific interactions were more active than individually reared newts. In the larger species, I. alpestris, heterospecific interactions induced SMR to increase beyond values of individually reared counterparts. Individuals from heterospecific pairs and larger conspecifics grew faster than did newts in other groups. The plastic shift in SMR was independent of the variation in growth rate and activity level. These results reveal a new source of individual SMR variation and potential costs of co-occurrence in ecologically similar taxa.
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