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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"behavioral syndromes"”.
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Behavioral syndromes and their effect on dispersal in Notonecta irrorata
… that might be affected by an individual's other behavioral tendencies. Correlated behavioral traits, or behavioral syndromes, are evidence for personality in animals and could potentially play a role in dispersal propensity. This research examined whether or not a behavioral syndrome exists in …
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A Behavioral Syndrome in the Southern Red-Backed Salamander (Plethodon Serratus)
… be explained by individual "personalities” or "behavioral syndromes”. There has been little study concerning whether behavioral syndromes are stable or can be modified by personal experience. In this study, I compared behavior of adult southern red-backed salamanders (Plethodon serratus) in two …
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Behavioral and Hormonal Flexibility Across Light Environments in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
… light intensity environments may have important behavioral consequences. One approach to understanding changes in behavior is by studying behavioral syndromes, suites of correlated behaviors reflecting between individual consistencies in behavior expressed within a behavioral situation (e.g., …
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Patterns, maintenance and the evolution of behavioral variation and covariance: the presence of personalities in kangaroo rats
… the mechanisms that may lead to the evolution of behavioral syndromes or "personalities". I used a structural equation modeling and information-theoretic approach to demonstrate that D. merriami exhibits personality structure between behaviors measured in the laboratory. I evaluated the mechanisms …
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Validação estrutural da escala de problemas de atenção da Teacher's Report Form em uma amostra brasileira
… disorder is one of the most common childhood behavioral syndromes. Although clinical evaluation is considered as the gold standard in the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, in epidemiological studies this evaluation is rarely used for practical and nancial reasons. In this study we use …
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Social context shapes individual variation in behavior, learning, and neural gene expression in a swordtail fish
… understood. Here, we characterized cognitive and behavioral variation as a function of social context in male and female El Abra swordtails (Xiphophorus nigrensis), a species with three genetically-influenced male mating strategies (courtship display, coercion, and mixed strategy). In males, we …
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Habitat selection and spatial personalities of Belizean white-tailed deer
… time (R= 0.19 – 0.66). Further, we found that behavioral syndromes of deer were moderately nested (median=0.40). Our results indicate that consistent individual variation in habitat selection occurs within an ecologically valuable ungulate population, suggesting that utilizing mean values when …
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Integrative approaches in amphibian ecology: Implications for behavioral and invasive species research
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Testing models of the adaptive evolution of consistent individual differences in behavior using sticklebacks
… imply that individuals are rigid in their behavioral expression, but rather that each individual can only display a subset of the potential total behavioral variation. Therefore explaining these consistent individual differences in behavior is a recent challenge for evolutionary biology in …
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Physiological and behavioral drivers of angling vulnerability in freshwater sportfish
… has been done previously in this area, several behavioral and physiological characteristics that could be linked with angling vulnerability have yet to be fully explored. In this dissertation, I present a series of experiments examining a set of behavioral and physiological traits and their role …