Are animal personality traits linked to life-history productivity?

By P. Biro, J. Stamps. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2008

1,194 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. N. Dingemanse
2. J. Stamps
3. Ton G. G. Groothuis
4. Andrew Sih
5. Denis Réale
6. A. Bell
7. N. Dochtermann
8. S. Kralj-Fišer

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. N. Dingemanse
2. W. Schuett
3. J. Stamps
4. Andrew Sih
5. Ton G. G. Groothuis
6. A. Bell
7. Denis Réale
8. J. Cote

In Social Psychology

1. Andrew Sih
2. N. Dingemanse
3. J. Stamps
4. Denis Réale
5. J. Cote
6. A. Bell
7. Ton G. G. Groothuis
8. W. Schuett

Citations in the corpus

• The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis (2009, background): “On the other hand, we might expect juveniles to be more repeatable because the costs of straying from a developmental trajectory are higher for juveniles (Biro & Stamps 2008).”
• Personality predicts social dominance in female zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, in a feeding context. (2011, result): “Following the ‘life history productivity’ hypothesis (Biro & Stamps 2008), according to which some individuals express a personality enabling them to sustain a high productivity, we predicted that such proactive individuals should have preferential access to food through dominance.”
• Models of pace-of-life syndromes (POLS): a systematic review (2018, background): “Within populations, individuals exhibit differences in LH strategies (Biro and Stamps 2008), as well as consistent differences in behavioural (Bell et al.”
• Studying personality variation in invertebrates: why bother? (2014, background): “To date, there is little empirical research testing the theory (e.g. Biro & Stamps, 2008; Dingemanse & Wolf, 2010).”
• The development of animal personality: relevance, concepts and perspectives (2010, positive): “…across individuals between personality traits (e.g. foraging under predation risk or aggressiveness) and differentially consistent physiological traits (e.g. growth or fecundity) may help account for the differential consistency of those personality traits (Stamps, 2007; Biro & Stamps, 2008).”
• Development of boldness and docility in yellow-bellied marmots (2013, critical): “These are not consistent with the predictions made by Biro & Stamps (2008), who predicted that individuals that grow faster should engage in more risky behaviour to maintain that growth rate.”
• Pace-of-life syndromes: a framework for the adaptive integration of behaviour, physiology and life history (2018, background): “traits, particularly risk-taking behaviours, play a functional role in mediating life-history trade-offs (Stamps 2007; Wolf et al. 2007; Biro and Stamps 2008).”
• Animal personality and pace-of-life syndromes: do fast-exploring fairy-wrens die young? (2015, background): “Two meta-analyses investigating the fitness consequences of animal personality found mixed evidence for a relationship between individual differences in behavior and survival (Biro and Stamps, 2008; Smith and Blumstein, 2008).”