riskallocation

A new @idealab publication came out today in Behavioral Ecology! Using the freshwater gastropod Physella acuta as a model system, we conducted a split-clutch experimental design that also controls for confounding aspects relating to risk allocation. We found that high background risk induces lower responsivity to both low-risk and high-risk chemical stimuli. This may be because cue addition also provided tactile cues that could be considered risky by high background risk snails. Taken together, these results provide partial evidence for risk allocation in the freshwater gastropod Physella acuta. If you're curious, here is the full Open Access paper: doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf078