Despite being recognized as a promoter of diversity and a condition for local coexistence
decades ago, the importance of intraspecific variance has been neglected over time in …

Inferring biotic interactions from functional, phylogenetic and geographical proxies remains
one great challenge in ecology. We propose a conceptual framework to infer the backbone …

In focusing on how organisms' generalizable functional properties (traits) interact
mechanistically with environments across spatial scales and levels of biological …

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

The pace-of-life syndrome (ie, POLS) hypothesis posits that behavioral and physiological
traits mediate the trade-off between current and future reproduction. This hypothesis predicts …

Animal personalities or behavioural syndromes are consistent and/or correlated behaviours
across two or more situations within a population. Social insect biologists have measured …

Personality-dependent space use and movement might be crucially influencing ecological
interactions, giving way to individual niche specialization. This new approach challenges …

Intraspecific variation is central to our understanding of evolution and population ecology,
yet its consequences for community ecology are poorly understood. Animal personality …

Intraspecific trait variation is an important determinant of fundamental ecological
interactions. Many of these interactions are mediated by behaviour. Therefore …

It has come to the authors' attention that the data on spider boldness reported in this paper
appear to contain irregularities in the form of an excess of duplicated values. These …