Demystifying animal 'personality'(or not): why individual variation matters to experimental biologists

DG Roche, V Careau… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Animal 'personality', defined as repeatable inter-individual differences in behaviour, is a
concept in biology that faces intense controversy. Critics argue that the field is riddled with …

The covariance between metabolic rate and behaviour varies across behaviours and thermal types: meta‐analytic insights

KJ Mathot, NJ Dingemanse, S Nakagawa - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Energy metabolism has received much attention as a potential driver of repeatable among‐
individual differences in behaviour (animal personality). Several factors have been …

Climate resilience in marine protected areas and the 'Protection Paradox'

AE Bates, RSC Cooke, MI Duncan, GJ Edgar… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Restricting human activities through Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is assumed to create
more resilient biological communities with a greater capacity to resist and recover following …

Personality, density and habitat drive the dispersal of invasive crayfish

SM Galib, J Sun, SD Twiss, MC Lucas - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
There is increasing evidence that personality traits may drive dispersal patterns of animals,
including invasive species. We investigated, using the widespread signal crayfish …

Metabolic scope as a proximate constraint on individual behavioral variation: effects on personality, plasticity, and predictability

PA Biro, T Garland Jr, C Beckmann… - The American …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Behavioral ecologists have hypothesized that among-individual differences in resting
metabolic rate (RMR) may predict consistent individual differences in mean values for costly …

Repeatability of glucocorticoid hormones in vertebrates: a meta-analysis

KL Schoenemann, F Bonier - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
We often expect that investigations of the patterns, causes, and consequences of among-
individual variation in a trait of interest will reveal how selective pressures or ecological …

Relationship between boldness and exploratory behavior in adult zebrafish

CP Dos Santos, MN de Oliveira, PF Silva… - Behavioural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Behavioral responses vary between individuals and may be repeated in different contexts
over time. When a behavioral response set is linked and present regardless of the context, it …

Predation and parasitism as determinants of animal personalities

F Dubois, SA Binning - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Within the same population, proactive (ie bolder, more exploratory, active and aggressive)
and reactive (ie more timid, less exploratory, less active and more passive) individuals could …

Thermal preference predicts animal personality in Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus

M Cerqueira, S Rey, T Silva… - Journal of Animal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental temperature gradients provide habitat structure in which fish orientate and
individual thermal choice may reflect an essential integrated response to the environment …

Bioenergetics‐adverse outcome pathway: Linking organismal and suborganismal energetic endpoints to adverse outcomes

CG Goodchild, AM Simpson… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) link toxicity across levels of biological organization, and
thereby facilitate the development of suborganismal responses predictive of whole …