State-dependent mortality can enhance behavioral unpredictability

Abstract Background Although behavioral unpredictability is widely described within-individual variability in behavior, its adaptive significance is little understood. Using a dynamic state variable model, this study investigated the conditions under which behavioral unpredictability (a component of...

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Main Author: Toshinori Okuyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:BMC Ecology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12898-020-00303-9