Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Behavioral Ecology
Author ORCID Identifier
Erica F. Stuber https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2687-6874
Volume
33
Issue
3
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
3-4-2022
First Page
492
Last Page
493
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Abstract
We are grateful for the thought-provoking and forward-looking commentaries (Dingemanse et al. 2022; Mabry 2022; Spiegel and Pinter-Wollman 2022; Vander Wal et al. 2022) in response to our meta-analysis of evidence for consistent among-individual differences in animals’ spatial behaviors (Stuber et al. 2022). A clear consensus is that our demonstration of the prevalence of repeatability across spatial behaviors, and taxa, is only the first step towards identifying the mechanisms and consequences of variation in spatial behavior. Here, we take the opportunity to emphasize key future directions pertaining to uncovering mechanisms, disentangling apparent personality from spatial constraints, and examining additional metrics of variation.
Recommended Citation
Erica F Stuber, Ben S Carlson, Brett R Jesmer, Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. (2022), Behavioral Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 3, May/June 2022, Pages 492–493, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac018