Avoiding the misuse of BLUP in behavioural ecology

TM Houslay, AJ Wilson - Behavioral Ecology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Having recognized that variation around the population-level “Golden Mean” of labile traits
contains biologically meaningful information, behavioural ecologists have focused …

Predator personality and prey behavioural predictability jointly determine foraging performance

C Chang, HY Teo, Y Norma-Rashid, D Li - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Predator-prey interactions play important roles in ecological communities. Personality,
consistent inter-individual differences in behaviour, of predators, prey or both are known to …

Multi-scale modeling of animal movement and general behavior data using hidden Markov models with hierarchical structures

V Leos-Barajas, EJ Gangloff, T Adam… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are commonly used to model animal movement
data and infer aspects of animal behavior. An HMM assumes that each data point from a …

Testing the stability of behavioural co** style across stress contexts in the Trinidadian guppy

TM Houslay, M Vierbuchen, AJ Grimmer… - Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Within populations, individuals can vary in stress response, a multivariate phenomenon
comprising neuroendocrine, physiological and behavioural traits. Verbal models of …

Towards an integrated concept of personality in human and nonhuman animals

I Delval, M Fernández-Bolaños, P Izar - Integrative Psychological and …, 2024 - Springer
Every individual has an idiosyncratic way of feeling, thinking and behaving, which is
relatively stable across time and situations. Usually known as Personality, today this …

Effect of behavioural plasticity and environmental properties on the resilience of communities under habitat loss and fragmentation

ECB Júnior, VP Rios, P Dodonov, B Vilela… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Being plastic in face of environmental changes that negatively affect communities can
increase the average fitness within populations and alter the resilience of the ecological …

Inter-individual differences in intra-individual variability in personality within and across contexts

N Beckmann, DP Birney, JF Beckmann… - Journal of Research in …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study focuses on intra-individual variability in personality at work, and how it relates to
job performance. 288 professionals completed contextualised adjective-based personality …

The Relationship between Personality Dimensions and Resiliency to Environmental Stress in Orange-Winged Amazon Parrots (Amazona amazonica), as Indicated …

VA Cussen, JA Mench - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Parrots are popular companion animals, but are frequently relinquished because of
behavioral problems, including abnormal repetitive behaviors like feather damaging …

Personality dynamics at work: The effects of form, time, and context of variability

N Beckmann, DP Birney… - European Journal …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The study aimed to investigate the status of within-person state variability in neuroticism and
conscientiousness as individual differences constructs by exploring their (a) temporal …

[LLIBRE][B] The study of behavior: Organization, methods, and principles

JA Hogan - 2017 - books.google.com
Behavior studies now span a variety of sub-disciplines, including behavioral ecology,
neuroscience, cognitive psychology and evolutionary developmental biology. While the …