The discovery that an individual may be constrained, and even behave sub‐optimally,
because of its personality type has fundamental implications for understanding individual‐to …

Ecology Letters (2012) Abstract Interspecific trait variation has long served as a conceptual
foundation for our understanding of ecological patterns and dynamics. In particular …

Behavioral traits and diet were traditionally thought to be highly plastic within individuals.
This view was espoused in the widespread use of optimality models, which broadly predict …

Balancing selection describes any form of natural selection, which results in the persistence
of multiple variants of a trait at intermediate frequencies within populations. By offering up a …

Many studies of animal personality are completed in the laboratory with animals collected
from the wild. However, there is some concern that studies that trap individuals to perform …

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

Animal personality, defined as consistent individual differences across context and time, has
attracted much recent research interest in the study of animal behaviour. More recently, this …

Group selection may be defined as selection caused by the differential extinction or
proliferation of groups,. The socially polymorphic spider Anelosimus studiosus exhibits a …

According to basic evolutionary theory, individuals within a population should adapt their
behavior in response to their current physical and social environment. However, there is …

Predator-prey interactions play important roles in ecological communities. Personality,
consistent inter-individual differences in behaviour, of predators, prey or both are known to …