dc.contributor |
Háskóli Íslands |
dc.contributor |
University of Iceland |
dc.contributor.author |
Ólafsdóttir, Guðbjörg Ásta |
dc.contributor.author |
Magellan, Kit |
dc.date.accessioned |
2016-08-11T10:52:21Z |
dc.date.available |
2016-08-11T10:52:21Z |
dc.date.issued |
2016-08-04 |
dc.identifier.citation |
Ólafsdóttir, G.Á. & Magellan, K. "Interactions between boldness, foraging performance and behavioural plasticity across social contexts." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2016). doi:10.1007/s00265-016-2193-0 |
dc.identifier.issn |
0340-5443 (Print) |
dc.identifier.issn |
1432-0762 (Online) |
dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/58 |
dc.description.abstract |
Boldness, the tendency to be explorative, risk prone and proactive, often varies consistently between individuals. An individual’s position on the boldness–shyness continuum has many implications. Bold individuals may outperform shyer conspecifics during foraging as they cover more ground, accumulate information more rapidly and make more frequent food discoveries. Individual variation in boldness may also affect behavioural plasticity across environmental contexts, as the time to process new information, the ability to locate and memorise resources and the time and ability to apply prior information in a novel context all differ between individuals. The primary aim of the current study was to examine plasticity in, and covariation between, boldness, foraging speed and foraging accuracy across social foraging contexts. We showed that the stickleback that were shyest when foraging alone became relatively boldest when foraging in a social context and also delayed their entry to a known food patch the most in the presence of conspecifics. These results support the assertion that shyer foragers are more reactive to social cues and add to current knowledge of how an individual’s position on the boldness–shyness continuum may correlate to foraging task performance and behavioural plasticity. We conclude that the correlation between boldness and behavioural plasticity may have broad relevance as the ability to adjust or retain behaviours in changing social environments could often have consequences for fitness. |
dc.format.extent |
1-11 |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.publisher |
Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Cognitive style |
dc.subject |
Threespine stickleback |
dc.subject |
Behavioural plasticity |
dc.subject |
Boldness |
dc.subject |
Audience effect |
dc.subject |
Speed-accuracy trade off |
dc.title |
Interactions between boldness, foraging performance and behavioural plasticity across social contexts |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dc.rights.license |
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
dc.description.version |
Peer Reviewed |
dc.description.version |
Ritrýnt efni |
dc.identifier.journal |
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology |
dc.identifier.doi |
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2193-0 |
dc.relation.url |
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2193-0 |
dc.contributor.department |
Rannsóknasetur á Vestfjörðum (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.department |
University of Iceland Research Centre of the Westfjords (UI) |
dc.contributor.school |
Stofnun rannsóknasetra (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.school |
University of Iceland Institute of Regional Research Centres (UI) |