Environmental heterogeneity and population differences in blue tits personality traits

Lay Summary The pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis predicts that environmental differences can trigger the evolution of different life-history strategies, including differences in personality. A 5-year study reveals that blue tits breeding in different habitats differ in personality and in life-history characteristics, such as adult survival probability. This is a rare demonstration of personality differences across a small geographical scale, suggesting behavior and life-history traits have coevolved in a local adaptation process.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Behavioral Ecology

• Publication date

  2016-12-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/beheco/arw148PMID 29622919PMCID 5873839
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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