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 …

Highlights•Aggression in adults is shaped by early life experiences and other
factors.•Dominance hierarchies limit conflict escalation and maintain social stability.• …

Ecology and evolution unfold in spatially structured communities, where dispersal links
dynamics across scales. Because dispersal is multicausal, identifying general drivers …

Anthropogenically induced fragmentation constitutes a major threat to biodiversity.
Presently, conservation research and actions focus predominantly on fragmentation caused …

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 …

Highlights•Personality-dependent dispersal may allow delicate skinks to colonize new
habitats.•Aggressive skinks dispersed further and faster than nonaggressive …

Evolution of adaptation requires predictability and recurrence of functional contexts. Yet
organisms live in multifaceted environments that are dynamic and ever changing, making it …

Natal dispersal, the movement of an organism from its birthplace to the site of first
reproduction, is fundamental to many ecological and evolutionary processes …

It is often claimed that pair bonds preferentially form between individuals that resemble one
another. Such assortative mating appears to be widespread throughout the animal kingdom …

The evolutionary stability of quantitative traits depends on whether a population can resist
invasion by any mutant. While uninvadability is well understood in well-mixed populations, it …