Competition avoidance drives individual differences in response to a changing food resource in sticklebacks

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 746-753

  Laskowski, Kate L ^a   Bell, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural types; Consistent individual differences; Foraging; Gasterosteaus aculeatus; Personality; Plasticity; Repeatability; Social context

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931749072     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12105     Document Type: Article

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