Within populations, individuals often show repeatable variation in behaviour, called 'animal
personality'. In the last few decades, numerous empirical studies have attempted to …

Highlights•Invertebrates representing 98% of all species are neglected in personality
research.•The lack of data confines comparative analyses to unravel personality evolution.• …

How task specialization, individual task performance and within-group behavioural variation
affects fitness is a longstanding and unresolved problem in our understanding of animal …

Group selection may be defined as selection caused by the differential extinction or
proliferation of groups,. The socially polymorphic spider Anelosimus studiosus exhibits a …

Animals constantly need to cope with changes in their environment. Co** with changes in
cues that are associated with the location and abundance of food is essential for being able …

Dispersal determines gene flow among groups in a population and so plays a major role in
many ecological and evolutionary processes. As gene flow shapes kin structure, dispersal is …

Behaviour is generally plastic to some degree and allows an animal to react appropriately to
changing and novel conditions. Consequently, a degree of plasticity is predicted to be a key …

There is a growing interest among behavioral ecologists in behavioral syndromes and
animal personality. Studies of behavioral syndromes repeatedly measure the same …

Understanding how and why consistent behavioural traits (ie animal personality) vary
between individuals, and identifying the mechanisms that underlie such variation, is a key …

Habitat selection studies conducted at the population scale commonly aim to describe
general patterns that could improve our understanding of the limiting factors in species …