期刊
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
卷 28, 期 4, 页码 948-952出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arx023
关键词
animal personality; behavioural plasticity; behavioural syndromes; cognition; physiology
资金
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/L022656/1]
- BBSRC [BB/L022656/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/L022656/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Having recognized that variation around the population-level Golden Mean of labile traits contains biologically meaningful information, behavioural ecologists have focused increasingly on exploring the causes and consequences of individual variation in behaviour. These are exciting new directions for the field, assisted in no small part by the adoption of mixed-effects modelling techniques that enable the partitioning of among- and within-individual behavioural variation. It has become commonplace to extract predictions of individual random effects from such models for use in subsequent analyses (for example, between a personality trait and other individual traits such as cognition, physiology, or fitness-related measures). However, these predictions are made with large amounts of error that is not carried forward, rendering further tests susceptible to spurious P values from these individual-level point estimates. We briefly summarize the problems with such statistical methods that are used regularly by behavioural ecologists, and highlight the robust solutions that exist within the mixed model framework, providing tutorials to aid in their implementation.
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