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Neurobiology and changing ecosystems: Toward understanding the impact of anthropogenic influences on neurons and circuits

Rapid anthropogenic environmental changes, including those due to habitat contamination, degradation, and climate change, have far-reaching effects on biological systems that may outpace animals’ adaptive responses. Neurobiological systems mediate interactions between animals and their environments...

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Autores principales: Michaiel, Angie M., Bernard, Amy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9769128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36569799
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2022.995354
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description Rapid anthropogenic environmental changes, including those due to habitat contamination, degradation, and climate change, have far-reaching effects on biological systems that may outpace animals’ adaptive responses. Neurobiological systems mediate interactions between animals and their environments and evolved over millions of years to detect and respond to change. To gain an understanding of the adaptive capacity of nervous systems given an unprecedented pace of environmental change, mechanisms of physiology and behavior at the cellular and biophysical level must be examined. While behavioral changes resulting from anthropogenic activity are becoming increasingly described, identification and examination of the cellular, molecular, and circuit-level processes underlying those changes are profoundly underexplored. Hence, the field of neuroscience lacks predictive frameworks to describe which neurobiological systems may be resilient or vulnerable to rapidly changing ecosystems, or what modes of adaptation are represented in our natural world. In this review, we highlight examples of animal behavior modification and corresponding nervous system adaptation in response to rapid environmental change. The underlying cellular, molecular, and circuit-level component processes underlying these behaviors are not known and emphasize the unmet need for rigorous scientific enquiry into the neurobiology of changing ecosystems.
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spelling pubmed-97691282022-12-22 Neurobiology and changing ecosystems: Toward understanding the impact of anthropogenic influences on neurons and circuits Michaiel, Angie M. Bernard, Amy Front Neural Circuits Neural Circuits Rapid anthropogenic environmental changes, including those due to habitat contamination, degradation, and climate change, have far-reaching effects on biological systems that may outpace animals’ adaptive responses. Neurobiological systems mediate interactions between animals and their environments and evolved over millions of years to detect and respond to change. To gain an understanding of the adaptive capacity of nervous systems given an unprecedented pace of environmental change, mechanisms of physiology and behavior at the cellular and biophysical level must be examined. While behavioral changes resulting from anthropogenic activity are becoming increasingly described, identification and examination of the cellular, molecular, and circuit-level processes underlying those changes are profoundly underexplored. Hence, the field of neuroscience lacks predictive frameworks to describe which neurobiological systems may be resilient or vulnerable to rapidly changing ecosystems, or what modes of adaptation are represented in our natural world. In this review, we highlight examples of animal behavior modification and corresponding nervous system adaptation in response to rapid environmental change. The underlying cellular, molecular, and circuit-level component processes underlying these behaviors are not known and emphasize the unmet need for rigorous scientific enquiry into the neurobiology of changing ecosystems. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9769128/ /pubmed/36569799 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2022.995354 Text en Copyright © 2022 Michaiel and Bernard. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Neurobiology and changing ecosystems: Toward understanding the impact of anthropogenic influences on neurons and circuits
title_full Neurobiology and changing ecosystems: Toward understanding the impact of anthropogenic influences on neurons and circuits
title_fullStr Neurobiology and changing ecosystems: Toward understanding the impact of anthropogenic influences on neurons and circuits
title_full_unstemmed Neurobiology and changing ecosystems: Toward understanding the impact of anthropogenic influences on neurons and circuits
title_short Neurobiology and changing ecosystems: Toward understanding the impact of anthropogenic influences on neurons and circuits
title_sort neurobiology and changing ecosystems: toward understanding the impact of anthropogenic influences on neurons and circuits
topic Neural Circuits
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9769128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36569799
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2022.995354
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