Task syndromes: linking personality and task allocation in social animal groups.

Autor:	Loftus JC; Department of Anthropology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA.; Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany.; Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.; Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany., Perez AA; Department of Entomology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA., Sih A; Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology [Behav Ecol] 2021 Feb 06; Vol. 32 (1), pp. 1-17. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Feb 06 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI:	10.1093/beheco/araa083
Abstrakt:	Studies of eusocial insects have extensively investigated two components of task allocation: how individuals distribute themselves among different tasks in a colony and how the distribution of labor changes to meet fluctuating task demand. While discrete age- and morphologically-based task allocation systems explain much of the social order in these colonies, the basis for task allocation in non-eusocial organisms and within eusocial castes remains unknown. Building from recent advances in the study of among-individual variation in behavior (i.e., animal personalities), we explore a potential mechanism by which individuality in behaviors unrelated to tasks can guide the developmental trajectories that lead to task specialization. We refer to the task-based behavioral syndrome that results from the correlation between the antecedent behavioral tendencies and task participation as a task syndrome. In this review, we present a framework that integrates concepts from a long history of task allocation research in eusocial organisms with recent findings from animal personality research to elucidate how task syndromes and resulting task allocation might manifest in animal groups. By drawing upon an extensive and diverse literature to evaluate the hypothesized framework, this review identifies future areas for study at the intersection of social behavior and animal personality. (© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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