A guide for studying among-individual behavioral variation from movement data in the wild

AG Hertel, PT Niemelä, NJ Dingemanse, T Mueller - Movement ecology, 2020 - Springer
Animal tracking and biologging devices record large amounts of data on individual
movement behaviors in natural environments. In these data, movement ecologists often view …

Individual differences in behaviour explain variation in survival: A meta‐analysis

M Moiron, KL Laskowski, PT Niemelä - Ecology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Research focusing on among‐individual differences in behaviour ('animal personality') has
been blooming for over a decade. Central theories explaining the maintenance of such …

Does individual variation in metabolic phenotype predict fish behaviour and performance?

NB Metcalfe, TE Van Leeuwen… - Journal of fish biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing interest in documenting and explaining the existence of marked
intraspecific variation in metabolic rate in animals, with fishes providing some of the best …

Personality, foraging behavior and specialization: integrating behavioral and food web ecology at the individual level

BJ Toscano, NJ Gownaris, SM Heerhartz, CJ Monaco - Oecologia, 2016 - Springer
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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Predator and prey functional traits: understanding the adaptive machinery driving predator–prey interactions

O Schmitz - F1000Research, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Predator–prey relationships are a central component of community dynamics. Classic
approaches have tried to understand and predict these relationships in terms of …

Wildlife conservation: The importance of individual personality traits and sentience

KA Owens, G Bryja, M Bekoff - Animal Sentience, 2024 - wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org
Individual differences in personality types within the same species have been studied much
less than differences between species and populations. Personality differences are related …

The Purr‐fect Catch: Using accelerometers and audio recorders to document kill rates and hunting behaviour of a small prey specialist

EK Studd, RE Derbyshire, AK Menzies… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing variation in predator behaviour and, specifically, quantifying kill rates is
fundamental for parameterizing predator–prey and food web models. Yet, current methods …

Biological invasions as a selective filter driving behavioral divergence

DG Chapple, AC Naimo, JA Brand… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biological invasions are a multi-stage process (ie, transport, introduction, establishment,
spread), with each stage potentially acting as a selective filter on traits associated with …

Predator type influences the frequency of functional responses to prey in marine habitats

RP Dunn, KA Hovel - Biology letters, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The functional response of a consumer to a gradient of resource density is a widespread
and consistent framework used to quantify the importance of consumption to population …