Recent studies of animal personality have focused on its proximate causation and its
ecological and evolutionary significance, but have mostly ignored questions about its …

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

Novel or changing environments expose animals to diverse stressors that likely require
coordinated hormonal and behavioral adaptations. Predicted adaptations to urban …

Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds is the most current and comprehensive
account of research on avian reproduction. It develops two unique themes: the consideration …

Appetitive motivation and incentive states are essential functions sustained by a common
emotional brain process, the SEEKING disposition, which drives explorative and approach …

Across a range of organisms, related species or even populations of the same species
exhibit strikingly different scales and patterns of movement. A significant proportion of the …

Over the past decade, research on animal personality has flourished in numerous
disciplines ranging from Behavioral Ecology and Developmental Psychobiology to Genetics …

Successful urban colonization by formerly rural species represents an ideal situation in
which to study adaptation to novel environments. We address this issue using candidate …

Although personality has been defined as a suite of correlated behaviours, most studies of
animal personality actually consider correlations between a few traits. We examined the …

Animal innovations have far-reaching ecological and evolutionary consequences. The
occurrence and persistence of an innovation require several processes, including …