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Julien Cote1, Sean Fogarty, Blaise Tymen

  • 1Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, , Davis, CA, USA, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, ENFA; UMR5174EDB (Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique), , 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse 31062, France, Université de Toulouse; UMR5174 EDB, , Toulouse 31062, France, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, , Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, , Umeå, Sweden.

Proceedings. Biological Sciences
|November 8, 2013
PubMed
Summary

Dispersing mosquitofish were less social than residents without predation risk. However, predation risk negated personality-dependent dispersal, showing adaptive dispersal depends on phenotype-environment interactions.

Keywords:
behavioural syndromebehavioural typeboldnessecological invasionpredator–prey interactionsociability

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