Four ways in which data-free papers on animal personality fail to be impactful

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  DiRienzo, Nicholas ^a   Montiglio, Pierre Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Behavior; Behavioral variation; Ecology; Evolution; Mixed models

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009690656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00023     Document Type: Article

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