Individual variation in behavior, particularly consistent among-individual differences (ie,
personality), has important ecological and evolutionary implications for population and …

How individuals interact with their environment and respond to changes is a key area of
research in evolutionary biology. A physiological parameter that provides an instant proxy …

Having recognized that variation around the population-level “Golden Mean” of labile traits
contains biologically meaningful information, behavioural ecologists have focused …

Ocean acidification (OA) is an impending environmental stress facing all marine life, and as
such has been a topic of intense research interest in recent years. Numerous detrimental …

Environmental change and biodiversity loss are but two of the complex challenges facing
conservation practitioners and policy makers. Relevant and robust scientific knowledge is …

Although animal personality research may have applied uses, this suggestion has yet to be
evaluated by assessing empirical studies examining animal personality and conservation …

The field of animal personalities claims to fill a gap in our understanding of animal behavior,
because it explicitly studies the adaptive significance of behavioral differences. This is a …

Identifying individual animals is crucial for many biological investigations. In response to
some of the limitations of current identification methods, new automated computer vision …

A key goal in the study of animal personalities is to determine their adaptive potential and
importance for behavioral evolution. Behavioral syndromes are evolutionarily intriguing …

Whether animal personality studies provide insights of broader evolutionary and ecological
relevance to the field of behavioural ecology is frequently questioned. One of the sources of …