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 …

[HTML][HTML] Correlated behavioural plasticities: insights from plasticity evolution, the integrated phenotype and behavioural syndromes

KA Sheehy, KL Laskowski - Animal Behaviour, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•We provide a conceptual framework to examine correlated behavioural
plasticities.•We summarize conditions likely to give rise to them and highlight testable …

Sex differences in the predictability of risk-taking behavior

JA Brand, J Henry, GC Melo, D Wlodkowic… - Behavioral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent research has found that individuals often vary in how consistently they express their
behavior over time (ie, behavioral predictability) and suggested that these individual …

Behavioural ecology meets oncology: quantifying the recovery of animal behaviour to a transient exposure to a cancer risk factor

H Klaassen, S Tissot, J Meliani… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Wildlife is increasingly exposed to sublethal transient cancer risk factors, including
mutagenic substances, which activates their anti-cancer defences, promotes …

Multilevel repeatability shows selection may act on both personality and predictability, but neither is state dependent

TO Cornwell, DJ Mitchell, C Beckmann, A Joynson… - Animal Behaviour, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Few studies assess repeatability of individual predictability (residual
variance).•We report moderate repeatability of predictability in Armadillidium …

Temperature change exerts sex-specific effects on behavioural variation

JA Brand, WKW Yee, IJ Aitkenhead… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Temperature is a key factor mediating organismal fitness and has important consequences
for species' ecology. While the mean effects of temperature on behaviour have been well …

The evolutionary ecology of variation in labile traits: selection on its among-and within-individual components

YG Araya-Ajoy, NJ Dingemanse, DF Westneat… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Closer integration between behavioral ecology and quantitative genetics has resulted in a
recent increase in studies partitioning sources of variation in labile traits. Repeatable …

[HTML][HTML] Repeatability and predictability of calf feeding behaviors—quantifying between-and within-individual variation for precision livestock farming

C Carslake, F Occhiuto… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Individual calves show substantial between-and within-individual variation in their feeding
behavior, the existence and extent of which is not fully researched. In this study, 57 196 …

Condition dependence of (un) predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species

G Winter, L Wirsching, H Schielzeth - Behavioral Ecology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract (Un) predictability has only recently been recognized as an important dimension of
animal behavior. Currently, we neither know if (un) predictability encompasses one or …

Individual (co) variation in locomotor activity, temporal plasticity, and predictability within a novel environment

N Kermany, JGA Martin, V Careau - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2023 - Springer
An important yet largely overlooked aspect of behavioral variation is that some individuals
are consistently less “predictable” than others. Predictability is the level of variance that …