Adaptive strategies for managing uncertainty may explain personality-related differences in behavioural plasticity

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1009-1020

  Mathot, Kimberley J ^a   Wright, J ^a   Kempenaers, B ^c   Dingemanse, N J ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862760716     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20339.x     Document Type: Review

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