European green lizard (Lacerta viridis) personalities: Linking behavioural types to ecologically relevant traits at different ontogenetic stages

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 111, Issue , 2015, Pages 67-74

  Bajer, Katalin ^a,b   Horváth, Gergely ^a   Molnár, Orsolya ^a,c   Török, János ^a   Garamszegi, László Zsolt ^d   Herczeg, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Behavioural syndrome; Temperament

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ECTOPARASITE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; JUVENILE; LABORATORY METHOD; LIZARD; ONTOGENY; REPRODUCTION;

ADULT; AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LACERTA VIRIDIS; LIZARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERAMENT; WILD ANIMAL; AGING; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDIVIDUALITY; PARASITOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; LACERTA VIRIDIS; SQUAMATA;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; LIZARDS; MALE; PARASITIC DISEASES; PERSONALITY; PIGMENTATION; RISK-TAKING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84920098800     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.11.020     Document Type: Article

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