期刊
OECOLOGIA
卷 182, 期 1, 页码 55-69出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3648-8
关键词
Behavioral type/syndrome; Diet breadth; Food resource use; Predator-prey; Temperament
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资金
- National Science Foundation [OCE-1356192]
- Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
- Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1356192] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Behavioral traits and diet were traditionally thought to be highly plastic within individuals. This view was espoused in the widespread use of optimality models, which broadly predict that individuals can modify behavioral traits and diet across ecological contexts to maximize fitness. Yet, research conducted over the past 15 years supports an alternative view; fundamental behavioral traits (e.g., activity level, exploration, sociability, boldness and aggressiveness) and diet often vary among individuals and this variation persists over time and across contexts. This phenomenon has been termed animal personality with regard to behavioral traits and individual specialization with regard to diet. While these aspects of individual-level phenotypic variation have been thus far studied in isolation, emerging evidence suggests that personality and individual specialization may covary, or even be causally related. Building on this work, we present the overarching hypothesis that animal personality can drive specialization through individual differences in various aspects of consumer foraging behavior. Specifically, we suggest pathways by which consumer personality traits influence foraging activity, risk-dependent foraging, roles in social foraging groups, spatial aspects of foraging and physiological drivers of foraging, which in turn can lead to consistent individual differences in food resource use. These pathways provide a basis for generating testable hypotheses directly linking animal personality to ecological dynamics, a major goal in contemporary behavioral ecology.
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