Personality and plasticity in neophobia levels vary with anthropogenic disturbance but not toxic metal exposure in urban great tits Urban disturbance, metal pollution and neophobia Universiteit Antwerpen
Animal personalities, as defined by repeatable among individual differences in behavior, can vary across urbanization gradients. However, how urbanization affects personalities remains incompletely understood, especially because different urban stressors could affect personality traits in opposing ways, whereas most previous studies have considered only one urban disturbance factor. For instance, novel habitat features could favor reduced ...