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

The interplay of ecology and evolution has been a rich area of research for decades. A
surge of interest in this area was catalyzed by the observation that evolution by natural …

Recent studies have established the ecological and evolutionary importance of animal
personalities. Individual differences in movement and space‐use, fundamental to many …

California, Davis, who had co-authored both studies with Pruitt, wrote a blogpost about those
irregularities (see go. nature. com/39m535t). She had found multiple stretches of data that …

Individuals in social insect colonies cooperate to perform collective work. While colonies
often respond to changing environmental conditions by flexibly reallocating workers to …

Across animal societies, individuals invest time and energy in social interactions. The social
landscape that emerges from these interactions can then generate barriers that limit the …

Empirical research has identified various institutions that improve resource longevity by
supporting individual resource conservation. However, the mechanisms by which these …

Increasing interest in the complexity, variation and drivers of movement‐related behaviours
promise new insight into fundamental components of ecology. Resolving the …

For the past decade, the study of personality has become a topic on the frontier of behavioral
ecology. However, most studies have focused on exploring inter-individual behavioral …

Kin selection and multilevel selection are two major frameworks in evolutionary biology that
aim at explaining the evolution of social behaviors. However, the relationship between these …