Geographic variation in the repeatability of a personality trait

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1243-1250

  Van Dongen, Wouter F D ^a   Maldonado, Karin ^a,b   Sabat, Pablo ^a,c   Vásquez, Rodrigo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad IFICC Los Alerces 3024 Ñuñoa   (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

animal personalities; exploratory behavior; novel environment experiment; repeatability; Zonotrichia capensis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOASSAY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HERITABILITY; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PASSERINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESEARCH WORK; SELECTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA; HUMULUS; ZONOTRICHIA CAPENSIS;

EID: 78649373424     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq145     Document Type: Article

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