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

An emerging hypothesis of animal personality posits that animals choose the habitat that
best fits their personality, and that the match between habitat and personality can facilitate …

The framework of the plant economics spectrum advanced our understanding of plant
ecology and proved as a unifying concept across plant taxonomy, growth forms and biomes …

A fundamental tenet of maternal effects assumes that maternal variance over time should
have discordant consequences for offspring traits across litters. Yet, seldom are parents …

In the endeavour to understand the causes and consequences of the variation in animal
personality, a wide range of studies were carried out, utilising various aspects to make …

Variation in intrinsic (body mass, reproductive condition) and extrinsic factors (habitat
quality, spatio-temporal variation in food availability) can affect the costs and benefits of …

Work examining dog personality is relatively new, so the degree to which dog personality
differs by age, predicts important dog outcomes, and is correlated with human personality is …

Conservation ecology research, management and modeling often assume species-specific
fixed traits ignoring intraspecific variation. Dispersal in animals is a heritable trait where …

Behavioral phenotypic traits or “animal personalities” drive critical evolutionary processes
such as fitness, disease and information spread. Yet the stabilit y of behavioral traits …

Individuals in a fish population differ in key life-history traits such as growth rate and body
size. This raises the question of whether such traits cluster along a fast-slow growth …