Social carry-over effects on non-social behavioral variation: mechanisms and consequences

The field of animal personality is interested in decomposing behaviors into different levels of variation, with its present focus on the ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences of expressed variation. Recently the role of the social environment, i.e. social partners, has been suggested t...

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Main Authors: Petri Toivo Niemelä, Francesca eSantostefano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2015.00049/full