Cue hierarchy in the foraging behaviour of the brackish cladoceran <i>Daphniopsis australis</i> -- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2018,36(6):2050-2060

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	MCCLOUD Clayton Leigh, ISMAIL Hasnun Nita, SEURONT Laurent. Cue hierarchy in the foraging behaviour of the brackish cladoceran Daphniopsis australis[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(6): 2050-2060

Cue hierarchy in the foraging behaviour of the brackish cladoceran Daphniopsis australis

MCCLOUD Clayton Leigh¹, ISMAIL Hasnun Nita², SEURONT Laurent³

1 Australian Fisheries Management Authority, Canberra, Australia;
2 School of Biology, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia;
3 CNRS, Univ. Lille, Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, F 62930 Wimereux, France

Abstract:

Zooplankton communities are an essential component of marine and freshwater food webs. However, there is still a relative lack of information on how these organisms behaviourally respond to a range of abiotic and biotic stressors. Specifically, the behaviour of the cladoceran Daphniopsis australis, a species endemic to South-eastern Australian saline lakes and ponds, is still unknown despite its potential role in the structure and function of inland water ecosystems. The swimming behaviour of males, parthenogenetic females and epiphial females was investigated under various conditions and combinations of food and conspecific cues. In the absence of cues, males displayed the most extensive swimming behaviour, exploring all areas of the container, and swimming in a series of relatively straight trajectories. In contrast, females typically exhibited a hop-and-sink motion characterised by the alternation between short bursts of swimming and sinking phases. Both females spent long periods near the bottom of the container, but epiphial females appeared to be more active than parthenogenetic ones that rarely made an excursion in the water column. In the presence of cues, males and females showed abilities to detect infochemicals from food and conspecifics, but exhibited specific behavioural strategies. Males essentially increased their swimming speed in the presence of food and/or conspecific infochemicals, and this increase was independent on the source of the cues, i.e. food, conspecific or a mixture of food and conspecifics. In contrast, females exhibited cue hierarchies that were related to their sexual status. Parthenogenetic females swam faster in the presence of food and a mixture of food and conspecific infochemicals than in the presence of cue from the opposite sex, which did not significantly differ from control observations conducted in the absence of cues. Epiphial females decreased their swimming speed in the presence of cues, with the most significant behavioural answers being driven by sex-related cues.

Key words: zooplankton|chemical cues|sex-specific behaviour

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