Animal tracking and biologging devices record large amounts of data on individual
movement behaviors in natural environments. In these data, movement ecologists often view …

An exciting area in behavioural ecology focuses on understanding why animals exhibit
consistent among-individual differences in behaviour (animal personalities). Animal …

With the steadily increasing number of publications in the field of stress research it has
become evident that the conventional usage of the stress concept bears considerable …

I outline how understanding the mechanism of behavioural plasticity is important for
predicting how organisms will respond to rapidly changing and novel environments. I define …

The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis specifies that closely related species or
populations experiencing different ecological conditions should differ in a suite of metabolic …

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

Behavioural traits are characterized by their labile expression: behavioural responses can,
in principle, be up-and down-regulated in response to moment-to-moment changes in …

The study of phenotypic evolution should be an integrative endeavor that combines different
approaches and crosses disciplinary and phylogenetic boundaries to consider complex …

Individually distinctive behavioral traits, or personalities, contribute to population-level
processes and ecological interactions important in applied wildlife conservation research …

In this paper we review recent models that provide adaptive explanations for animal
personalities: individual differences in behaviour (or suites of correlated behaviours) that are …