Taking a comparative approach: Analysing personality as a multivariate behavioural response across species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Carter, Alecia J ^a,d   Feeney, William E ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL PERSONALITY; ARTICLE; CHRYSIPTERA ROLLANDI; CORAL REEF; DAMSELFISH; DISCHISTODUS PERSPICILLATUS; EVOLUTION; FISH; NEOPOMACENTRUS AZYSRON; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERSONALITY; POMACENTRIDAE; POMACENTRUS AMBOINENSIS; POMACENTRUS CHRYSURUS; POMACENTRUS COELESTIS; POMACENTRUS MOLUCCENSIS; POMACENTRUS NAGASAKIENSIS; POMACENTRUS WARDI; POPULATION DISPERSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; PERSONALITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 84864487737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042440     Document Type: Article

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