How does variation in the environment and individual cognition explain the existence of consistent behavioral differences?

Interaction between animal personality and animal cognition

(2016) Claudio Carere et al.   Current Zoology

Predator-induced changes in the boldness of naïve field crickets, Gryllus integer, depends on behavioural type

(2012) Petri T. Niemelä et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Worms under cover: relationships between performance in learning tasks and personality in great tits (Parus major)

(2012) Mathieu Amy et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Nymphal density, behavioral development, and life history in a field cricket

(2012) Petri T. Niemelä et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Defining behavioural syndromes and the role of ‘syndrome deviation’ in understanding their evolution

(2012) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Hummingbirds have a greatly enlarged hippocampal formation

(2012) B. J. Ward et al.   Biology Letters

Cognitive Ability Influences Reproductive Life History Variation in the Wild

(2012) Ella F. Cole et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

(2012) Andrew Sih et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A meta-analysis of correlated behaviours with implications for behavioural syndromes: mean effect size, publication bias, phylogenetic effects and the role of mediator variables

(2012) László Zsolt Garamszegi et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Adaptive strategies for managing uncertainty may explain personality-related differences in behavioural plasticity

(2012) Kimberley J. Mathot et al.   OIKOS

Brain development and predation: plastic responses depend on evolutionary history

(2011) A. Gonda et al.   Biology Letters

Spatial and temporal variation in population genetic structure of wild Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) across Africa

(2011) Etienne Bezault et al.   BMC GENETICS

Integrating behaviour with life history: boldness of the field cricket, Gryllus integer, during ontogeny

(2011) Petri T. Niemelä et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Variation in personality and behavioural plasticity across four populations of the great tit Parus major

(2011) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

An empirical link between the spectral colour of climate and the spectral colour of field populations in the context of climate change

(2011) Bernardo García-Carreras et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Parasitism, predation and the evolution of animal personalities

(2010) Raine Kortet et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Neuroendocrinology of coping styles: Towards understanding the biology of individual variation

(2010) J.M. Koolhaas et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Coping styles and behavioural flexibility: towards underlying mechanisms

(2010) C. M. Coppens et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Expensive Brain: A framework for explaining evolutionary changes in brain size

(2009) Karin Isler et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Evolutionary ecology of learning: insights from fruit flies

(2009) Tadeusz J. Kawecki   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Ecological and evolutionary dynamics under coloured environmental variation

(2009) Lasse Ruokolainen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity

(2009) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Why are there so few smart mammals (but so many smart birds)?

(2008) K. Isler et al.   Biology Letters

Evolutionary emergence of responsive and unresponsive personalities

(2008) M. Wolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parent-offspring conflict and co-adaptation: behavioural ecology meets quantitative genetics

(2008) P. T Smiseth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES