Ecological and evolutionary maintenance and consequences of phenotypic variation, in particular behavioral variation and behavioral correlations. Research examines, for example, how variation impacts evolutionary outcomes available to populations and how variation influences population dynamics.

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Westneat, D., Y. Araya-Ajoy, H. Allegue, B. Class, N. Dingemanse, N.A. Dochtermann, L. Garamszegi, J. Martin, S. Nakagawa, D. Realé, H. Schielzeth. (2020, link) Collision between biological process and statistical analysis revealed by mean-centering. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13360

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Schielzeth, H., N.J. Dingemanse, S. Nakagawa, D.F. Westneat, H. Allegue, C. Teplitsky, D. Réale, N.A. Dochtermann, L.Z. Garamszegi, Y.G. Araya-Ajoy. (2020, link) Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1111/2041‐210X.13434