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 …

Changes in water quality significantly shape fish behavior, a crucial index reflecting the
growth and welfare status of fish. Given the centrality of this relationship to aquaculture …

Ecology Letters (2012) Abstract Interspecific trait variation has long served as a conceptual
foundation for our understanding of ecological patterns and dynamics. In particular …

Dispersal is one of the most fundamental components of ecology, and affects processes as
diverse as population growth, metapopulation dynamics, gene flow and adaptation …

The study of phenotypic evolution should be an integrative endeavor that combines different
approaches and crosses disciplinary and phylogenetic boundaries to consider complex …

This introduction to the themed issue on Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the
study of personality provides an overview of conceptual, theoretical and methodological …

Ecological invasions, where non-native species spread to new areas, grow to high densities
and have large, negative impacts on ecological communities, are a major worldwide …

The ecological factors responsible for the evolution of individual differences in animal
personality (consistent individual differences in the same behaviour across time and …

We present a novel perspective on life‐history evolution that combines recent theoretical
advances in fluctuating density‐dependent selection with the notion of pace‐of‐life …

Many studies of animal personality are completed in the laboratory with animals collected
from the wild. However, there is some concern that studies that trap individuals to perform …