Urbanization and its effects on personality traits: a result of microevolution or phenotypic plasticity?

Candidate gene polymorphisms for behavioural adaptations during urbanization in blackbirds

(2013) J. C. Mueller et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bird song and anthropogenic noise: vocal constraints may explain why birds sing higher-frequency songs in cities

(2013) E. Nemeth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Escape behaviour of birds provides evidence of predation being involved in urbanization

(2012) A.P. Møller et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Attitudes and actions toward birds in urban areas: Human cultural differences influence bird behavior

(2012)   AUK

Boldness behavior and stress physiology in a novel urban environment suggest rapid correlated evolutionary adaptation

(2012) Jonathan W. Atwell et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Survival and antipredator behavior of woodchucks (Marmota monax) along an urban–agricultural gradient

(2012) E.W. Lehrer et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

(2012) Andrew Sih et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

An evolutionary ecology of individual differences

(2012) Sasha R. X. Dall et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Big city life: carnivores in urban environments

(2012) P. W. Bateman et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Influence of urban edges on stress in an arboreal mammal: a case study of squirrel gliders in southeast Queensland, Australia

(2012) Grant Brearley et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Behavioural correlates of urbanisation in the Cape ground squirrel Xerus inauris

(2012) Tarryn Chapman et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Personality Traits and Behavioral Syndromes in Differently Urbanized Populations of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus)

(2012) Veronika Bókony et al.   PLoS One

Experimental evidence for adaptive personalities in a wild passerine bird

(2012) M. Nicolaus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Non-random gene flow: an underappreciated force in evolution and ecology

(2012) Pim Edelaar et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Animal personalities: consequences for ecology and evolution

(2012) Max Wolf et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effects of levels of human exposure on flight initiation distance and distance to refuge in foraging eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)

(2011) S.C. Engelhardt et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Behavioral Syndromes Break Down in Urban Song Sparrow Populations

(2011) Jennifer Scales et al.   ETHOLOGY

Response to Predation Risk in Urban and Rural House Sparrows

(2011) Gábor Seress et al.   ETHOLOGY

Tolerance of Auditory Disturbance by an Avian Urban Adapter, the Noisy Miner

(2011) Hélène Lowry et al.   ETHOLOGY

Evolution and behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change

(2011) Andrew Sih et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Inter-Individual Variability in Fear of Humans and Relative Brain Size of the Species Are Related to Contemporary Urban Invasion in Birds

(2011) Martina Carrete et al.   PLoS One

Personality in captivity reflects personality in the wild

(2010) Katherine A. Herborn et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Inter-individual and age differences in exploration, neophobia and problem-solving ability in a Neotropical raptor (Milvago chimango)

(2010) Laura Marina Biondi et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Quantitative genetics and fitness consequences of neophilia in zebra finches

(2010) H. Schielzeth et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Presence of mammalian predators decreases tolerance to human disturbance in a breeding shorebird

(2010) James J.H. St Clair et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

What makes an urban bird?

(2010) KARL L. EVANS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Antipredator strategies of house finches: are urban habitats safe spots from predators even when humans are around?

(2009) Anna Valcarcel et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Spatial Neophilia and Spatial Neophobia in Resident and Migratory Warblers (Sylvia)

(2009) Claudia Mettke-Hofmann et al.   ETHOLOGY

Heterogeneous selection on a heritable temperament trait in a variable environment

(2009) John L. Quinn et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Changes in fox squirrel anti-predator behaviors across the urban–rural gradient

(2009) Robert A. Mccleery   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

New perspectives for estimating body condition from mass/length data: the scaled mass index as an alternative method

(2009) Jordi Peig et al.   OIKOS

Larger groups are more successful in innovative problem solving in house sparrows

(2009) A. Liker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity

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

Flight distance of urban birds, predation, and selection for urban life

(2008) Anders Pape Møller   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Reduced parasite infestation in urban Eurasian blackbirds (Turdus merula): a factor favoring urbanization?

(2008) Dirk Geue et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Novelty Responses in a Bird Assemblage Inhabiting an Urban Area

(2008) Alejandra Isabel Echeverría et al.   ETHOLOGY

Habitat influences on urban avian assemblages

(2008) KARL L. EVANS et al.   IBIS

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

Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Climate Change in a Wild Bird Population

(2008) A. Charmantier et al.   SCIENCE

Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations

(2007) ANDREW P. HENDRY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY