Unifying individual differences in personality, predictability and plasticity: a practical guide

RE O'Dea, DWA Noble… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms use labile traits to respond to different conditions over short time‐scales. When a
population experiences the same conditions, we might expect all individuals to adjust their …

partR2: Partitioning R2 in generalized linear mixed models

MA Stoffel, S Nakagawa, H Schielzeth - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
The coefficient of determination R 2 quantifies the amount of variance explained by
regression coefficients in a linear model. It can be seen as the fixed-effects complement to …

Low statistical power and overestimated anthropogenic impacts, exacerbated by publication bias, dominate field studies in global change biology

Y Yang, H Hillebrand, M Lagisz, I Cleasby… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Field studies are essential to reliably quantify ecological responses to global change
because they are exposed to realistic climate manipulations. Yet such studies are limited in …

How should we interpret estimates of individual repeatability?

AJ Wilson - Evolution letters, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Individual repeatability (R), defined as the proportion of observed variance attributable to
among-individual differences, is a widely used summary statistic in evolutionarily motivated …

Genetic architecture of repeated phenotypic divergence in Littorina saxatilis ecotype evolution

EL Koch, M Ravinet, AM Westram, K Johannesson… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Chromosomal inversions have been shown to play a major role in a local adaptation by
suppressing recombination between alternative arrangements and maintaining beneficial …

Extreme temperatures compromise male and female fertility in a large desert bird

MF Schou, M Bonato, A Engelbrecht, Z Brand… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Temperature has a crucial influence on the places where species can survive and
reproduce. Past research has primarily focused on survival, making it unclear if temperature …

Same-sex sociosexual behaviour is widespread and heritable in male rhesus macaques

J Clive, E Flintham, V Savolainen - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Numerous reports have documented the occurrence of same-sex sociosexual behaviour
(SSB) across animal species. However, the distribution of the behaviour within a species …

Little adaptive potential in a threatened passerine bird

P de Villemereuil, A Rutschmann, KD Lee, JG Ewen… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Threatened species face numerous threats, including future challenges triggered by global
change. A possible way to cope with these challenges is through adaptive evolution, which …

Reproductive phenology is a repeatable, heritable trait linked to the timing of other life-history events in a migratory marine predator

WC Oosthuizen, PA Pistorius… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Population-level shifts in reproductive phenology in response to environmental change are
common, but whether individual-level responses are modified by demographic and genetic …

Telomere heritability and parental age at conception effects in a wild avian population

AM Sparks, LG Spurgin, M van der Velde… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Individual variation in telomere length is predictive of health and mortality risk across a
range of species. However, the relative influence of environmental and genetic variation on …