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No evidence for behavioural syndrome and genetic basis for three personality traits in a wild bird population

(2019) Jennifer Morinay et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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(2019) Ernő Vincze et al.   ETHOLOGY

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Comparing the consequences of natural selection, adaptive phenotypic plasticity, and matching habitat choice for phenotype-environment matching, population genetic structure, and reproductive isolation in meta-populations

(2018) Marion Nicolaus et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Experimentally quantifying the effect of nest-site depth on the predation risk and breeding success of Blue Tits

(2018) Rienk W. Fokkema et al.   AUK

Interspecific aggression declines seasonally in breeding great tits Parus major

(2018) Jelmer M. Samplonius   ETHOLOGY

Individual versus pseudo-repeatability in behaviour: Lessons from translocation experiments in a wild insect

(2017) Petri T. Niemelä et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Repeatability, heritability, and age-dependence of seasonal plasticity in aggressiveness in a wild passerine bird

(2017) Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

No effect of partner age and lifespan on female age-specific reproductive performance in blue tits

(2017) Seyed Mehdi Amininasab et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Personality-matching habitat choice, rather than behavioural plasticity, is a likely driver of a phenotype–environment covariance

(2017) Benedikt Holtmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Influence of fine-scale habitat structure on nest-site occupancy, laying date and clutch size in Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus

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Agonistic urban birds: elevated territorial aggression of urban song sparrows is individually consistent within a breeding period

(2016) Scott Davies et al.   Biology Letters

Testosterone Reduces Promiscuity of Female Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus): An Experimental Study

(2016) Berber de Jong et al.   ETHOLOGY

Sources of (co)variation in alternative siring routes available to male great tits (Parus major)

(2016) Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy et al.   EVOLUTION

Song rate as a signal of male aggressiveness during territorial contests in the wood warbler

(2016) Jakub Szymkowiak et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

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(2016) Russell V. Lenth   Journal of Statistical Software

BORIS: a free, versatile open-source event-logging software for video/audio coding and live observations

(2016) Olivier Friard et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Among-year variation in the repeatability, within- and between-individual, and phenotypic correlations of behaviors in a natural population

(2015) László Zsolt Garamszegi et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour

(2015) M. Briffa et al.   Biology Letters

Unravelling the Philosophies Underlying ‘Animal Personality’ Studies: A Brief Re-Appraisal of the Field

(2015) Morgan David et al.   ETHOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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Personality-dependent response to field playback in great tits: slow explorers can be strong responders

(2014) Chris G.C. Jacobs et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The biology hidden inside residual within-individual phenotypic variation

(2014) David F. Westneat et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Interspecific Competition Influences Fitness Benefits of Assortative Mating for Territorial Aggression in Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis)

(2014) Morgan R. Harris et al.   PLoS One

Temporal trade-offs between nestling provisioning and defence against nest predators in blue tits

(2013) Ariane Mutzel et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A meta-analysis of correlated behaviors with implications for behavioral syndromes: relationships between particular behavioral traits

(2013) László Zsolt Garamszegi et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Slow explorers take less risk: a problem of sampling bias in ecological studies

(2013) Erica F. Stuber et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Parental Care Syndromes in House Sparrows: Positive Covariance Between Provisioning and Defense Linked to Parent Identity

(2013) Daniel P. Wetzel et al.   ETHOLOGY

The contribution of an avian top predator to selection in prey species

(2013) Oscar Vedder et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Parental provisioning behaviour plays a key role in linking personality with reproductive success

(2013) A. Mutzel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Characterizing behavioural 'characters': an evolutionary framework

(2013) Y. G. Araya-Ajoy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genetic integration of local dispersal and exploratory behaviour in a wild bird

(2013) Peter Korsten et al.   Nature Communications

On the Evolution of Personalities via Frequency-Dependent Selection

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

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

Animal personality: what are behavioural ecologists measuring?

(2012) Alecia J. Carter et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Quantifying individual variation in behaviour: mixed-effect modelling approaches

(2012) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Two Sides of the Same Coin? Consistency in Aggression to Conspecifics and Predators in a Female Songbird

(2011) Kristal E. Cain et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

Polygyny and extra-pair paternity enhance the opportunity for sexual selection in blue tits

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Personality and the emergence of the pace-of-life syndrome concept at the population level

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Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis

(2009) Alison M. Bell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity

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

Personality and Nest Defence in the Great Tit (Parus major)

(2008) Franck A. Hollander et al.   ETHOLOGY

The timing of birds' breeding seasons: a review of experiments that manipulated timing of breeding

(2007) S. Verhulst et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES