Sex-specific behavioral flexibility in rapid adaptation to a new environment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Behavioral adaptations are considered an important factor of population success in colonizing novel environments. Individuals can be selected for specific behavioral traits during transport, introduction and especially establishment phase of the invasion process. Aside from population level average of behavioral traits, both among- and within individual variability can contribute to achieving behavioral optima for efficiently acquiring resources in new habitats. Here, we study activity/exploration behavioral traits and boldness in a novel insular population of Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) with a known colonizing history and propagule pressure. We apply Bayesian mixed-effects models and variance partitioning to compare the activity/exploration behavioral traits

SUBMITTER: Glogoski M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12584423 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature