Publications

Preprints

Ivimey-Cook, E. R., Pick, J. L., Bairos-Novak, K., Culina, A., Gould, E., Grainger, M., ... R. Royauté … & Windecker, S. (2023). Implementing Code Review in the Scientific Workflow: Insights from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. EcoEvoRxiv. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2CG64

Dochtermann N.A., B. Klock, D.A. Roff and R. Royauté (2021) Drift on holey landscapes as a dominant evolutionary process. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.22.465488

Royauté, R., A. Hedrick and N.A. Dochtermann (2021) Sex-specific behavioral syndromes allow the independent evolution of behavioral dimorphism. EcoEvoRxiv. https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/4abp6

Garrison, C.R., R. Royauté, and N.A. Dochtermann (2020) Integration of signals used in intra- and inter-sexual selection. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.14.088518

2023

[19] Xu W., L. Gigliotti, R. Royauté, H. Sawyer et A. D. Middleton (2023) High fence density amplifies individual differences in movement with implications on survival in two migratory herbivores. Journal of Animal Ecology. http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13879 PDF

[18] Gottwald J., R. Royauté, M. Becker, T. Geitz, J. Höchst, P. Lampe, L. Leister, K. Lindner, J. Maier, S. Rösner, D. G. Schabo, B. Freisleben, R. Brandl, T. Müller, N. Farwig and Thomas Nauss (2022) Classifying the activity states of small vertebrates using automated VHF telemetry. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14037 PDF

2022

[17] Dingemanse, N.J., A.G. Hertel and R. Royauté (2022) Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al. Behavioral Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac006 PDF

[16] Dalos, J., R. Royauté, A. Hedrick and N.A. Dochtermann (2022) Phylogenetic conservation of behavioral variation and behavioral syndromes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13935. PDF

2021

[15] Royauté, R., and N.A. Dochtermann (2021) Comparing ecological and evolutionary variability within datasets. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03068-3 PDF

[14] Hertel, A.G., R. Royauté, A. Zedrosser and T. Mueller (2021) Biologging reveals individual variation in behavioral predictability in the wild. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13406 PDF

2020

[13] Royauté, R., A. Hedrick and N.A. Dochtermann (2020) Behavioral syndromes shapes evolutionary trajectories via conserved genetic architecture. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0183 PDF

2019

[12] Dochtermann, N.A. and R. Royauté  (2019) The mean matters: going beyond repeatability to interpret behavioral variation. Animal Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.05.012 PDF

[11] Dochtermann, N.A., T. Schwab, M.A. Berdal, J. Dalos and R. Royauté (2019) The heritability of behavior: a meta-analysis. Journal of Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esz023 PDF

[10] Royauté, R., C.R. Garrison, J. Dalos, M.A. Berdal and N.A. Dochtermann (2019) Current energy state interacts with the developmental environment to influence behavioral plasticity. Animal Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.11.013 PDF

2018

[9] Royauté, R., M.A. Berdal, C.R. Garrison, and N.A. Dochtermann (2018) Paceless life? A meta-analysis of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Topical Collection Pace-of-life syndrome: an adaptive integration of personality and life-history. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-018-2472-z   PDF

[8] Royauté, R., E.S. Wilson, B.R. Helm, R.E. Malinger, J. Prasifka, K.J. Greenlee and J.H. Bowsher (2018) Phenotypic integration in an extended phenotype: individual variation among nest-building traits in the alfalfa leafcutter bee (Megachile rotundata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13259   PDF

2017

[7] Hamilton, J. A., R. Royauté, J.W. Wright, P. Hodgskiss and F.T. Ledig (2017) Genetic conservation and management of the California endemic, Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana Parry): implications of genetic rescue in a genetically depauperate species. Ecology & Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3306   PDF

[6] Royauté, R., and N.A. Dochtermann. (2017) When the mean no longer matters: Developmental diet affects behavioral variation but not population averages in the house cricket (Acheta domesticus). Behavioral Ecology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw164   PDF

2015

[5] Royauté, R., K. Greenlee, M. Baldwin and N.A. Dochtermann (2015) Behavior, metabolism, and size: phenotypic modularity or integration in Acheta domesticus? Animal Behavior. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.09.027   PDF

Royauté, R. and J.N. Pruitt (2015) Varying predator personalities generates contrasting prey communities in an agroecosystem. Ecology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-2424.1 (Data issues are under investigation at the journal, see expression of concern here and summary of issues here)

[4] Royauté, R., C.M. Buddle and C. Vincent (2015) Under the influence: sublethal exposure to an insecticide affects personality expression in a jumping spider. Functional Ecology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12413   PDF

2014

[3] Montiglio, P.-O., and R. Royauté. (2014) Contaminants as a neglected source of behavioural variation. Animal Behaviour. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.11.018   PDF

[2] Royauté, R., C.M. Buddle and C. Vincent (2014) Interpopulation variations in behavioral syndromes of a jumping spider from insecticide-treated and insecticide-free orchards. Ethology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12185   PDF

2012

[1] Royauté, R. and C.M. Buddle (2012) Colonization dynamics of agroecosystem spider assemblages after snow-melt in Quebec (Canada). Journal of Arachnology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/P11-16.1   PDF