Sentence examples for individual specialization from inspiring English sources

The second objective was to estimate the links between the individual specialization and personality traits.

The individual specialization was similar in NT and BCT and similar to that previously observed in sea bass i.e. 1 3 individuals responsible for most of the feed demand activity in the tanks.

The aim of this study was to compare the self-feeding behaviour between NT and BCT with a design allowing to reveal individual and group feed demand behaviour and then to identify the individual specialization that builds around the device and the food dispenser.

Although individual specialization occurs within non-human populations [32], it may be less common in social species.

Additionally, higher habitat complexity may also allow for increased individual specialization (Bolnick et al. 2003), increasing population-level morphological variation.

The probability q of performing the same task in two subsequent time steps is a measure of individual specialization.

In contrast, whenever the spatio-temporal grain is large relative to the dispersal ability or longevity of individuals, specialization should occur.

For example, sea otters (Enhydra lutris) also show individual foraging specialization [27], but tend to be less social.

Food-limitation and/or competition and habitat heterogeneity [11] have been proffered as ecological forces that favor individual foraging specialization [27], but such hypotheses are not easily tested with a single population.

The degree of individual diet specialization was higher in fish spawning at 2 m.

A higher degree of individual diet specialization results in a large scatter of individuals around the population mean.