Personality predicts dispersal and settlement in a novel habitat - a mesocosm experiment
Jakob Gismann, Ton G. G. Groothuis, Franz J. Weissing, Marion Nicolaus
The paper tests if personality traits influence dispersal and settlement in sticklebacks using a mesocosm experiment, finding a dispersal syndrome but no phenotype-environment correlations.
Behavioral Ecology · Jul 8, 2026Peer-reviewedAnimal Behavior & Cognition