Environment-dependence of behavioural consistency in adult male European green lizards (Lacerta viridis).

ABSTRACT: Understanding the background mechanisms affecting the emergence and maintenance of consistent between-individual variation within population in single (animal personality) or across multiple (behavioural syndrome) behaviours has key importance. State-dependence theory suggests that behaviour is 'anchored' to individual state (e.g. body condition, gender, age) and behavioural consistency emerges through behavioural-state feedbacks. A number of relevant state variables are labile (e.g. body condition, physiological performance) and expected to be affected by short-term environmental change. Yet, whether short-term environmental shifts affect behavioural consistency during adulthood remains questionable. Here, by employing a full-factorial laboratory experiment, we explored if quantity of foo

SUBMITTER: Horvath G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5675404 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature