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Flexible males, proactive females: personality tests show increased boldness/exploration in colonists damping with time in males but not in females
2024-05-22
Abstract excerpt
Individuals colonizing new areas at expanding ranges encounter challenging and unfamiliar environments, suggesting that colonists should differ in behavioural traits from the residents of the source populations. The colonizer syndrome is supposed to be associated with boldness, exploration, activity, and low sociability. We assessed spatial and temporal variation in the colonizer syndrome in the expanding populati...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b4adc11a-1ea2-5da9-8a13-c0d7997a0ffa
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.05.22.595322
