There is increasing interest in understanding the processes that maintain phenotypic
variation in groups, populations, or communities. Recent studies have investigated how the …

Highlights•Invertebrates representing 98% of all species are neglected in personality
research.•The lack of data confines comparative analyses to unravel personality evolution.• …

Behaviors are commonly correlated between individuals in so-called “behavioral
syndromes.” Between-individual correlations of phenotypic traits can change the trajectories …

Individuals often show consistent behavioural differences where behaviours can form
integrated units across functionally different contexts. However, the factors causing and …

How task specialization, individual task performance and within-group behavioural variation
affects fitness is a longstanding and unresolved problem in our understanding of animal …

Dispersal determines gene flow among groups in a population and so plays a major role in
many ecological and evolutionary processes. As gene flow shapes kin structure, dispersal is …

To fully comprehend and predict the impact of drivers of global change such as climate
warming and pollution, integrated multi‐trait approaches are needed. As organismal traits …

A key goal in the study of animal personalities is to determine their adaptive potential and
importance for behavioral evolution. Behavioral syndromes are evolutionarily intriguing …

Behaviour is generally plastic to some degree and allows an animal to react appropriately to
changing and novel conditions. Consequently, a degree of plasticity is predicted to be a key …

Physiology and temperature can both have a profound influence on behaviour and
metabolism. Despite this, thermal physiology has rarely been considered within the animal …