Risk, resources and state-dependent adaptive behavioural syndromes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1560, 2010, Pages 3977-3990

  Luttbeg, Barney ^a,b   Sih, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Behavioural syndromes; Boldness; Predation risk; State dependent behaviour; State dependent safety

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATION RISK; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; STARVATION; VIGOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650597371     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0207     Document Type: Article

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