Personalities influence spatial responses to environmental fluctuations in wild fish.

ABSTRACT: Although growing evidence supports the idea that animal personality can explain plasticity in response to changes in the social environment, it remains to be tested whether it can explain spatial responses of individuals in the face of natural environmental fluctuations. This is a major challenge in ecology and evolution as spatial dynamics link individual- and population-level processes. In this study, we investigated the potential of individual personalities to predict differences in fish behaviour in the wild. Specifically, our goal was to answer if individual differences in plasticity of space use to sea surface temperature could be explained by differences in personality along the reactive-proactive axis. To address this question, we first conducted repeated standard laboratory assays

SUBMITTER: Villegas-Rios D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6175438 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature