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

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences Vol. 284; no. 1864; p. 20170943
• Main Authors: Holtmann, Benedikt, Santos, Eduardo S. A., Lara, Carlos E., Nakagawa, Shinichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England The Royal Society 11.10.2017; The Royal Society Publishing
• Edition: Royal Society (Great Britain)
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Animal Personality; Animals; Behaviour; Covariance; Developmental plasticity; Dispersal; Ecosystem; Female; Genotype-Environment Covariance; Habitat Selection; Habitats; Human Disturbance; Introduced Species; Male; Matching; New Zealand; Personality; Phenotype; Plastic properties; Plasticity; Population; Population differentiation; Population structure; Repeatability; Songbirds - genetics; Songbirds - physiology; Speciation; habitat selection; repeatability; human disturbance; animal personality; dispersal; genotype-environment covariance

An emerging hypothesis of animal personality posits that animals choose the habitat that best fits their personality, and that the match between habitat and personality can facilitate population differentiation, and eventually speciation. However, behavioural plasticity and the adjustment of behavio...