Personality traits and behavioral syndromes in differently urbanized populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bókony, Veronika ^a   Kulcsár, Anna ^b   Tóth, Zoltán ^c   Liker, András ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITAT SELECTION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; LATENT PERIOD; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TRAIT; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; RURAL POPULATION; SPARROW; SPECIES HABITAT; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84860526516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036639     Document Type: Article

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