The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of Individual Specialization

By D. Bolnick, R. Svanbäck, J. Fordyce, Louie H. Yang, Jeremy M. Davis, C. D. Hulsey, M. Forister. American Naturalist, 2002

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The Structure of Ecological Networks Across Levels of Organization (2020, background): “Classical approaches to individual variation allow the description of the total population niche in terms of the relative contributions of variation in resource use within and among individuals (Bolnick et al. 2003).”
Consistency in Context-specific Measures of Shyness and Boldness in Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (2005, methodology): “In this sense our results tend to support the context-speciﬁc temperament hypothesis (Wilson et al. 1994; Coleman & Wilson 1998).”
Overlap and partitioning of the ecological and isotopic niches (2010, background): “We identified the modeled kestrels as either generalists, individuals using a wide range of dietary resources, or specialists, those individuals concentrating on few food types (Bolnick et al. 2003).”
Using carbon and nitrogen isotopic values of body feathers to infer inter- and intra-individual variations of seabird feeding ecology during moult (2009, methodology): “The total niche width (TNW) of a population can be partitioned into two components: the within (intra)-individual component (WIC) and the between (inter)-individual component (BIC), such that TNW = WIC + BIC (Bolnick et al. 2003).”
Retrospective characterization of ontogenetic shifts in killer whale diets via δ 13 C and δ 15 N analysis of teeth (2009, background): “Individual dietary specialization is increasingly being recognized as an important component of food web patterns and dynamics, which have significant implications for ecological and evolutionary processes at the community level (see review by Bolnick et al. 2003).”
Niche segregation of coexisting Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) constrains food web coupling in subarctic lakes (2013, background): “, 2009) and by higher foraging efficiency of specialised individuals (Bolnick et al., 2003; Araújo et al., 2011).”
Individual differences in searching behaviour and spatial foraging consistency in a central place marine predator (2014, background): “However, as other defi nitions of specialisation involve a restriction in individual behaviour (Bolnick et al. 2003) which we did not test in this paper, we report consistency and divergence in our data and discuss the potential implications for specialisation.”
Genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity: Causes of morphological and dietary variation in Eurasian perch (2006, background): “pelagic diet develop an upward bending body (Hjelm et al., 2001; Andersson, 2003; Olsson and Eklov, 2005; P. Eklov and R. Svanback, unpublished data).”
Habitat structure, feeding mode and morphological reversibility: factors influencing phenotypic plasticity in perch (2005, background): “© 2005 Jens Olsson to as a trophic polymorphism (reviewed in Robinson and Wilson, 1994; Skulason and Smith, 1995; Smith and Skulason, 1996; Bolnick et al., 2003).”
The keystone individual concept: an ecological and evolutionary overview (2014, background): “For instance, intraspecific differences can impact individuals’ fitness, drive population vital rates, shape biological communities, or alter the dynamics of entire ecosystems (Bolnick et al., 2003, 2011).”
Multiple foraging strategies in a marine apex predator, the Galapagos sea lion Zalophus wollebaeki (2008, background): “Specialization is expected to be higher in environments with fewer competing species (Bolnick et al. 2003) and intraspecific competition is diversifying (Roughgarden 1972).”
Ecological factors drive differentiation in wolves from British Columbia (2009, background): “1516 www.blackwellpublishing.com/jbi ª 2009 The Authors doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02067.x Journal compilation ª 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Dieckmann, 2003; Nosil et al., 2005; Funk et al., 2006) and social interactions (Bolnick et al., 2003) may also contribute to shaping population structure.”