The relation between dominance and exploratory behavior is context-dependent in wild great tits

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Natural selection and animal personality (2005, background): “This notion of differential competitive ability was supported by the finding that fast-exploring adults dominated slow-exploring adults when competing for winter food ( Dingemanse & de Goede, 2004 ) and that fast-exploring adults bred on the best breeding terri-”
Stress, corticosterone responses and avian personalities (2007, methodology): “Survival, dispersal and breeding success of free-living great tits whose personality has been determined in laboratory tests have also been described (Dingemanse et al. 2003, 2004; Dingemanse and De Goede 2004 ).”
Energy metabolism and animal personality (2008, background): “…have consequences for individual fitness through their effect on predation rates (Réale and Festa-Bianchet 2003, Bell and Sih 2007), the form and outcome of competition for females and food (Dingemanse et al. 2004), or the response to social challenges (Dingemanse and Réale 2005, Sinn et al. 2006).”
Behavioural profile predicts dominance status in mountain chickadees, Poecile gambeli (2009, unknown): “Dingemanse et al. (2004) used the number of flights and hops (which in great tits are known to be tightly correlated with arrival time) during the first 2 min in the novel room as a proxy for exploratory behaviour.”