Linking differences in personality to demography in the wandering albatross

Population dynamics are shaped by individual differences. With a good understanding of the relationships between individual differences and vital rates, population models can be improved to yield more realistic and detailed demographic projections. Personality is expected to shape individual differences in performance. Yet, an empirical quantification of its impact on population dynamics is currently lacking. Here, we developed and analyzed a three-dimensional hyperstate population model that accounts for three sources of individual differences simultaneously in its structure: age, breeding state, and boldness as a measure of personality. We parameterized our model using empirical demographic and boldness data on the wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) population from Crozet. We quantified the relative importance of boldness through sensitivity analyses and simulations of increased strength of the relationship between boldness and three vital rates (survival, breeding probability, an..., , # Linking differences in personality to demography in the wandering albatross

## Description of the datasets and code

These are datasets and Matlab code accompanying the manuscript entitled: Linking differences in personality to demography in the wandering albatross, published in Oikos

## Description of the files

## Data:

WA_5Fs_a_mean_2008_SCALE.mat; Dataset for boldness-specific estimates of survival for adult females. This is a list, which includes all the CMR model-based estimates of parameters for females, when the effect of boldness was applied on survival (phi). Therefore, this dataset is used to extract the intercept of survival for each adult breeding state under ...$Fs.mean$mean.Fphi.XX, with XX being either SB, FB, PSB, PFB, or NB. Results are provided for 54 age classes. Other elements in the list (for example ...$Fs.mean$meanFrho.FB) represent only average values for the other parameters. The element ...$Fs.mean$alpha.Fphi.ad is the slope of the relationship between bo...,