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 …

Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences

LA Gartland, JA Firth, KL Laskowski… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Within animal populations there is variation among individuals in their tendency to be social,
where more sociable individuals associate more with other individuals. Consistent inter …

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 …

What's your move? Movement as a link between personality and spatial dynamics in animal populations

O Spiegel, ST Leu, CM Bull, A Sih - Ecology letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have established the ecological and evolutionary importance of animal
personalities. Individual differences in movement and space‐use, fundamental to many …

Animal personality and state–behaviour feedbacks: a review and guide for empiricists

A Sih, KJ Mathot, M Moiron, PO Montiglio… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
An exciting area in behavioural ecology focuses on understanding why animals exhibit
consistent among-individual differences in behaviour (animal personalities). Animal …

The effect of partisanship and political advertising on close family ties

MK Chen, R Rohla - Science, 2018 - science.org
Research on growing American political polarization and antipathy primarily studies public
institutions and political processes, ignoring private effects, including strained family ties …

The contribution of additive genetic variation to personality variation: heritability of personality

NA Dochtermann, T Schwab… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individual animals frequently exhibit repeatable differences from other members of their
population, differences now commonly referred to as 'animal personality'. Personality …

Explaining intraspecific diversity in plant secondary metabolites in an ecological context

BD Moore, RL Andrew, C Külheim, WJ Foley - New Phytologist, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plant secondary metabolites (PSM s) are ubiquitous in plants and play many ecological
roles. Each compound can vary in presence and/or quantity, and the composition of the …

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 …

Broadening the problem agenda of biological individuality: individual differences, uniqueness and temporality

MI Kaiser, R Trappes - Biology & Philosophy, 2021 - Springer
Biological individuality is a notoriously thorny topic for biologists and philosophers of
biology. In this paper we argue that biological individuality presents multiple, interconnected …