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It remains unclear why individuals often behave consistently across time and context. In this study we show that behavioural consistency arises rapidly in a cohort of young wild brown trout as a result of behavioural changes through time and natural selection.
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This study dissects the processes through which behavioural consistency (or 'personality') arises in a free-living fish population.
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This page is a summary of: Natural selection, plasticity and the emergence of a behavioural syndrome in the wild, Ecology Letters, October 2012, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12011.
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