Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 278-289

  Sih, Andrew ^a   Cote, Julien ^a,b,c   Evans, Mara ^a   Fogarty, Sean ^a   Pruitt, Jonathan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal personalities; Behavioural syndromes; Dispersal; Distribution and abundance; Ecological invasions; Environmental change; Intraspecific variation; Population dynamics; Spatial ecology; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATION; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FITNESS; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84856635550     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01731.x     Document Type: Review

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