Abstract
Freshwater gastropods occupy relatively low trophic levels in food webs and are frequently consumed as prey items by a wide variety of predators. Many studies have documented these organisms’ abilities to utilize chemical cues to make decisions relating to growth, reproduction, and behavior. Chemical communication in these species has been studied in terms of transmission and detection within only one environmental medium (i.e., water) despite there being some species that regularly cross barriers between media that may be capable of—and benefit from—detecting chemical cues in both aquatic and terrestrial environments. Previous gastropod reviews have focused heavily on mucus trails (Ng et al. in Biol Rev 88:683–700, 2013) and the anatomy and physiology behind gastropod olfactory navigation (Wyeth in J Exp Biol, https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.185843, 2019). In this review, I discuss how freshwater gastropods respond to a variety of conspecific and heterospecific cues, and the known—or potential—ecological implications of these responses. I present several directions for future research to further explore chemical cue detection in both air and water as well as the ways in which freshwater gastropod communication may interact with the broader ecological community, particularly in the context of predation.
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Kirsch, D.R. Freshwater gastropods as an important group for studying the impact of inter- and intra-specific chemical communication on aquatic community dynamics. Aquat Ecol 56, 361–375 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-022-09961-x
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