Life-history trade-offs favour the evolution of animal personalities

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7144, 2007, Pages 581-584

  Wolf, Max ^a   Van Doorn, G Sander ^a,c   Leimar, Olof ^b   Weissing, Franz J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COEXISTENCE; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRADE-OFF;

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; EXPECTATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34249882764     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05835     Document Type: Article

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