Journal article
When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity
Science Advances, Vol.11(9), eado3843
02/28/2025
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado3843
PMID: 40009684
Abstract
Circadian rhythms are a mechanism by which species adapt to environmental variability and fundamental to understanding species behavior. However, we lack data and a standardized framework to accurately assess and compare temporal activity for species during rapid ecological change. Through a global network representing 38 countries, we leveraged 8.9 million mammalian observations to create a library of 14,587 standardized diel activity estimates for 445 species. We found that less than half the species' estimates were in agreement with diel classifications from the reference literature and that species commonly used more than one diel classification. Species diel activity was highly plastic when exposed to anthropogenic change. Furthermore, body size and distributional extent were strongly associated with whether a species is diurnal or nocturnal. Our findings provide essential knowledge of species behavior in an era of rapid global change and suggest the need for a new, quantitative framework that defines diel activity logically and consistently while capturing species plasticity.
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- Title: Subtitle
- When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity
- Creators
- Kadambari DevarajanMason FidinoZach J FarrisSolny A AdalsteinssonGabriel Andrade-PonceJulia L AngstmannWhitney AnthonysamyJesica AquinoAddisu AsefaBelen AvilaLarissa L BaileyLyandra Maria de Sousa BarbosaMarcela de Frias BarretoOwain BartonChloe E BatesMayara Guimarães BeltrãoTori BirdElizabeth G BiroFrancesco BisiDaniel BohórquezMark BoyceJustin S BrasharesGrace BullingtonPhoebe BurnsJessica BurrAndrew R ButlerKendall L CalhounTien Trung CaoNatalia CasadoJuan Camilo Cepeda-DuqueJonathon D CepekAdriano Garcia ChiarelloMerri CollinsPedro Cordeiro-EstrelaSebastian CostaGiacomo CremonesiBogdan; id_orcid --- CristescuPaula CruzAnna Carolina Figueiredo de AlbuquerqueCarlos De AngeloCláudia Bueno de CamposLiana Mara Mendes de SenaMario Di BitettiDouglas de Matos DiasDuane DiefenbachTim S DohertyThais P Dos SantosGabriela Teixeira DuarteTimothy M EppleyJohn ErbCarolina Franco EstevesBryn EvansMaria L.M FalcãoHugo Fernandes-FerreiraJohn R FiebergLuiz Carlos Firmino de Souza FilhoJason FisherMarie Josee FortinGeorge A GaleTravis GalloLaken S GanoeRony Garcia-AnleuKaitlyn M GaynorTiziana A Gelmi-CandussoPhillys N GichuruQuimey GomezAustin M GreenLuiza Neves GuimarãesJeffrey D HaightLavendar R HarrisZachary D HawnJordan HeimanHuy Quoc HoangSarah HuebnerFabiola IannarilliMaría Eugenia IezziJacob S IvanKodi J JaspersMark J JordanJason KamilarMamadou KaneMohammad Hosein KarimiMarcella KellyMichel T KohlWilliam P KuvleskyAndrew LadleRachel N LarsonQuy Tan LeDuy LeVan Son LeElizabeth W LehrerPatrick E LendrumJesse LewisAndrés LinkDiego J LizcanoJason V LombardiRobert LongEva López-TelloCamile LugariniDavid LugoPaula MacKayMaria MadadiRodolfo Assis MagalhãesSeth B MagleLudmila Hufnagel Regis Diniz MaiaSalvador MandujanoTaisiia MarchenkovaPaulo Henrique MarinhoLaurie MarkerJulia Martinez PardoAdriano MartinoliRodrigo Lima MassaraJuliana MasselouxDina MatiukhinaAmy MayerLuis MazariegosMaureen R McClungAlex McInturffDarby McPhailAmy MertlChristopher R MiddaughDavid MillerDavid MillsDale MiquelleVivianna MiritisRemington J MollPéter MolnárRobert A MontgomeryToni Lyn MorelliAlessio MortellitiRachael I MuellerAnna S MukhachevaKayleigh MullenAsia MurphyVance NepomucenoDusit NgoprasertAn NguyenThanh Van NguyenVan Thai NguyenHoa Anh Nguyen QuangRob NipkoAna Clarissa Costa NobreJoseph NorthrupMegan A OwenAdriano Pereira PagliaMeredith S PalmerGabriela Palomo-MunozLain E PardoChrystina ParksAna Maria de Oliveira PaschoalBrent PattersonAgustin PavioloLiba PejcharMary E PendergastHumberto L Perotto-BaldiviesoTimofei PetrovMairi K.P PoissonDaiana Jeronimo PolliMorteza PourmirzaiAlexander ReebinKatie R RemineLindsey RichChristopher S RichardsonFacundo RobinoDaniel G RochaFabiana Lopes RochaFlávio Henrique Guimarães RodriguesAdam T RohnkeTravis J RyanCarmen M SalsburyHeather A SanderNadia Maria da Cruz Santos-CavalcanteCagan H SekerciogluIvan SeryodkinDede Hendra SetiawanShabnam ShadlooMahsa ShahhosseiniGraeme ShannonCatherine J ShierG. Bradley SmithTom SnyderRahel SollmannKimberly L SparksKriangsak SribuarodColleen C St ClairTheodore StankowichRobert SteinmetzCassondra J StevensonSunarto Sunarto SunartoThilina D SurasingheSvetlana V SutyrinaRonald R SwaisgoodAtie TaktehraniKanchan ThapaMatthew ThortonAndrew TilkerMathias W ToblerVan Bang TranJody TuckerRussell C Van HornJuan S Vargas-SotoKaren L Velásquez-CJan VenterEduardo M VenticinqueStijn VerschuerenErin WampoleDarcy J WatchornOliver R WearnKatherine C.B WeissAlejandro WelschenFebri Anggriawan WidodoJacque WilliamsonAndreas WiltingGeorge WittemyerArturo ZavaletaAmanda J ZellmerBrian D Gerber
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Science Advances, Vol.11(9), eado3843
- DOI
- 10.1126/sciadv.ado3843
- PMID
- 40009684
- ISSN
- 2375-2548
- eISSN
- 2375-2548
- Publisher
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Grant note
- USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch Formula Project: 1017848
This work was supported by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch Formula Project 1017848 (K.D.). Funding of individual camera-trap projects is listed in the Supplementary Materials.
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/28/2025
- Academic Unit
- School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability
- Record Identifier
- 9985132202002771
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