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Individual and sex-specific differences in intrinsic growth rate covary with consistent individual differences in behaviour.
The Journal of animal ecology - 1 Sept 2014
Biro Peter A, Adriaenssens Bart, Sampson Portia
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The evolutionary causes of consistent individual differences in behaviour are currently a source of debate. A recent hypothesis suggests that consistent individual differences in life-history productivity (growth and/or fecundity) may covary with behavioural traits that contribute to growth-mortality trade-offs, such as risk-proneness (boldness) and foraging activity (voraciousness). It remains unclear, however,...
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