Quantifying the predictability of behaviour: Statistical approaches for the study of between-individual variation in the within-individual variance

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-37

  Cleasby, Ian R ^a,b   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^c   Schielzeth, Holger ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Behavioural consistency; Coefficient of variation; Dispersion models; Intra individual variability; Mixed models; Residual variance

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84921497834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12281     Document Type: Article

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