Integrating animal personality into insect population and community ecology

摘要: Despite the recent surge of interest in concept animal personalities, that is, temporally consistent individual differences behavior, few studies have integrated intraspecific behavioral variation population or community ecology. Insects and other arthropods provide ideal model systems to study how affects phenomena This is due fact not only are highly amenable experimental manipulation, but they also allow us answer general ecological questions on multiple scales biological organization. Herein, we review developments views framework personality could a deeper understanding classic issues (1) ecology (e.g., local adaptation, dispersal, invasion), (2) food webs ecosystem engineering), (3) more insect-focused topics such as metamorphosis pollination biology.