What's your move? Movement as a link between personality and spatial dynamics in animal populations

Ecology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 3-18

  Spiegel, Orr ^a   Leu, Stephan T ^b,c   Bull, C Michael ^b   Sih, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal personality; behavioural syndromes; fractal landscapes; home range; movement ecology; optimal foraging; population structure; search strategies; social networks; spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL WELFARE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOVEMENT; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPACE USE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85006341783     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12708     Document Type: Article

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