How does variation in the environment and individual cognition explain the existence of consistent behavioral differences?

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 457-464

  Niemelä, Petri T ^a,b   Vainikka, Anssi ^a,b   Forsman, Jukka T ^a   Loukola, Olli J ^a   Kortet, Raine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal personalities; Behavioral flexibility; Behavioral plasticity; Behavioral syndromes; Cognition; Reaction norm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879460488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.451     Document Type: Article

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