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Environmental stressors alter relationships between physiology and behaviour.
Trends in ecology & evolution - 1 Nov 2013
Killen Shaun S, Marras Stefano, Metcalfe Neil B, McKenzie David J, Domenici Paolo
Abstract excerpt
Although correlations have frequently been observed between specific physiological and behavioural traits across a range of animal taxa, the nature of these associations has been shown to vary. Here we argue that a major source of this inconsistency is the influence of environmental stressors, which seem capable of revealing, masking, or modulating covariation in physiological and behavioural traits. These...
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