A method for exploring the structure of behavioural syndromes to allow formal comparison within and between data sets

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 439-450

  Dingemanse, Niels J ^a   Dochtermann, Ned ^b   Wright, Jonathan ^c  

^a Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

behavioural syndrome; common principal components analysis; personality; population differentiation; structural equation modelling; variance covariance matrix

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TELEOST; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 75049086006     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.024     Document Type: Article

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