Novel environment exploration and home range size in starlings Sturnus vulgaris

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1321-1329

  Minderman, Jeroen ^a   Reid, Jane M ^b   Hughes, Martin ^c   Denny, Matthew J H ^d   Hogg, Suzanne ^e   Evans, Peter G H ^f   Whittingham, Mark J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c Denny Ecology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d Denny Ecology   (United Kingdom)

^e SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

animal personality; behavioral syndromes; coping styles; environmental sensitivity; individual variation; kernel density; minimum convex polygon; movement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EXPLORATION; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; HERITABILITY; HOME RANGE; JUVENILE; MOVEMENT; PASSERINE; POLYGON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 78649387577     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq151     Document Type: Article

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