Boldness, trappability and sampling bias in wild lizards

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1051-1058

  Carter, Alecia J ^a,b   Heinsohn, Robert ^a   Goldizen, Anne W ^c   Biro, Peter A ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agama planiceps; Mixed models; Namibian rock agama; Personality; Plasticity; Random regression; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOASSAY; BODY SIZE; LIZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); TRAPPING; WILD POPULATION;

NAMIBIA;

AGAMA; AGAMA PLANICEPS; ANIMALIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84858751570     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.033     Document Type: Article

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