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Animal personalities: consequences for ecology and evolution
Max Wolf,Franz J. Weissing +1 more
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A comprehensive inventory of the potential implications of personality differences, ranging from population growth and persistence to species interactions and community dynamics, and covering issues such as social evolution, the speed of evolution, evolvability, and speciation is provided.Abstract:
Personality differences are a widespread phenomenon throughout the animal kingdom. Past research has focused on the characterization of such differences and a quest for their proximate and ultimate causation. However, the consequences of these differences for ecology and evolution received much less attention. Here, we strive to fill this gap by providing a comprehensive inventory of the potential implications of personality differences, ranging from population growth and persistence to species interactions and community dynamics, and covering issues such as social evolution, the speed of evolution, evolvability, and speciation. The emerging picture strongly suggests that personality differences matter for ecological and evolutionary processes (and their interaction) and, thus, should be considered a key dimension of ecologically and evolutionarily relevant intraspecific variation.read more
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Quantifying individual variation in behaviour: mixed-effect modelling approaches
TL;DR: An overview of how mixed-effect models can be used to partition variation in, and correlations among, phenotypic attributes into between- and within-individual variance components is provided.
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Animal personality and state–behaviour feedbacks: a review and guide for empiricists
Andrew Sih,Kimberley J. Mathot,Maria Moiron,Pierre-Olivier Montiglio,Max Wolf,Niels Jeroen Dingemanse +5 more
TL;DR: The role of feedbacks in recent models of adaptive personalities, and guidelines for empirical testing of model assumptions and predictions are provided, to provide a roadmap for including state-behaviour Feedbacks in behavioural ecology research.
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Applications of step-selection functions in ecology and conservation
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An evolutionary ecology of individual differences
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Between-individual differences in behavioural plasticity within populations: causes and consequences
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse,Max Wolf +1 more
TL;DR: How between-individual differences in behavioural plasticity can result from additive and interactive effects of genetic make-up and past environmental conditions, and under which conditions natural selection might favour this form of between- individual variation is discussed.
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