Behavioral Ecology

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Volume 17, issue 6, 2006

Colony genetic structure in a facultatively eusocial hover wasp pp. 873-880

Alan Bolton, Seirian Sumner, Gavin Shreeves, Maurizio Casiraghi and Jeremy Field

Prospecting in a solitary breeder: chick production elicits territorial intrusions in common loons pp. 881-888

Walter H. Piper, Charles Walcott, John N. Mager, Margaret Perala, Keren B. Tischler, Erin Harrington, Amy J. Turcotte, Marc Schwabenlander and Nathan Banfield

Blue tail and striped body: why do lizards change their infant costume when growing up? pp. 889-896

Dror Hawlena, Rami Boochnik, Zvika Abramsky and Amos Bouskila

Potential risks of olfactory signaling: the effect of predators on scent marking by beavers pp. 897-904

Frank Rosell and JørnIngar Sanda

Models of optimal foraging and resource partitioning: deep corollas for long tongues pp. 905-910

Miguel A. Rodríguez-Gironés and Luis Santamaría

Independent effects of familiarity and mating preferences for ornamental traits on mating decisions in guppies pp. 911-916

Susanne R.K. Zajitschek, Jonathan P. Evans and Robert Brooks

Nest desertion by a cowbird host: an antiparasite behavior or a response to egg loss? pp. 917-924

Kosciuch Kl, Parker Th and Sandercock Bk

Innate plasticity of a predatory behavior: nonlearned context dependence of avian flush-displays pp. 925-932

Piotr G. Jabłoński, Sang Don Lee and Leszek Jerzak

The effects of predation risk from crab spiders on bee foraging behavior pp. 933-939

Tom Reader, Andrew D. Higginson, Christopher J. Barnard and Francis S. Gilbert

Ejaculate size, second male size, and moderate polyandry increase female fecundity in a seed beetle pp. 940-946

Jordi Moya-Laraño and Charles W. Fox

Do the multiple defense chemicals of visually distinct species enhance predator learning? pp. 947-951

John Skelhorn and Candy Rowe

Genetic similarity, extrapair paternity, and offspring quality in Savannah sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) pp. 952-958

Corey R. Freeman-Gallant, Nathaniel T. Wheelwright, Katherine E. Meiklejohn and Suzanne V. Sollecito

Kleptoparasitic prey competition in shoaling fish: effects of familiarity and prey distribution pp. 959-964

Michael M. Webster and Paul J.B. Hart

Olfactory mate recognition in a sympatric species pair of three-spined sticklebacks pp. 965-970

Nicole E. Rafferty and Janette Wenrick Boughman

Multiple paternity in a philopatric rodent: the interaction of competition and choice pp. 971-978

Peter M. Waser and J. Andrew De Woody

Hungry females show stronger mating preferences pp. 979-981

Heidi S. Fisher and Gil G. Rosenthal

Experimental evidence for a causal effect of pair-bond duration on reproductive performance in oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) pp. 982-991

Martijn van de Pol, Dik Heg, Leo W. Bruinzeel, Bram Kuijper and Simon Verhulst

Fitness effects of parasite-mediated spatial heterogeneity within a swarm pp. 992-997

Thomas W. Pike

Nonindependent mating in a coral reef damselfish: evidence of mate choice copying in the wild pp. 998-1003

Denis Goulet

Strong material benefits and no longevity costs of multiple mating in an extremely polyandrous leaf beetle, Chrysochus cobaltinus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) pp. 1004-1010

Steven K. Schwartz and Merrill A. Peterson

Behavioral correlations across breeding contexts provide a mechanism for a cost of aggression pp. 1011-1019

Renée A. Duckworth

Foraging strategies as a function of season and rank among wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) pp. 1020-1028

Carson M. Murray, Lynn E. Eberly and Anne E. Pusey

The blue tit's song is an inconsistent signal of male condition pp. 1029-1040

Timothy H. Parker, Iain R. Barr and Simon C. Griffith

Experimental evidence that migrants adjust usage at a stopover site to trade off food and danger pp. 1041-1045

Andrea C. Pomeroy, Robert W. Butler and Ronald C. Ydenberg

Losing the last feather: feather loss as an antipredator adaptation in birds pp. 1046-1056

Anders Pape Møller, Jan Tøttrup Nielsen and Johannes Erritzøe

Volume 17, issue 5, 2006

Fitness correlates of male coloration in a Lake Victoria cichlid fish pp. 691-699

Martine E. Maan, Michael van der Spoel, Paloma Quesada Jimenez, Jacques J.M. van Alphen and Ole Seehausen

Importance of spatial habitat structure on establishment of host defenses against brood parasitism pp. 700-708

Eivin Røskaft, Fugo Takasu, Arne Moksnes and Bård Gunnar Stokke

Acoustic preferences and localization performance of blood-sucking flies (Corethrella Coquillett) to túngara frog calls pp. 709-715

Ximena E. Bernal, A. Stanley Rand and Michael J. Ryan

Feeding preferences in 2 disjunct populations of tiger snakes, Notechis scutatus (Elapidae) pp. 716-725

Fabien Aubret, Gordon M. Burghardt, Stéphanie Maumelat, Xavier Bonnet and Don Bradshaw

Female-specific color is a signal of quality in the striped plateau lizard (Sceloporus virgatus) pp. 726-732

Stacey L. Weiss

Natal dispersal, interactions among siblings and intrasexual competition pp. 733-740

Jean-François Le Galliard, G. Gundersen, H.P. Andreassen and N.C. Stenseth

The ecology of conception and pregnancy failure in wild baboons pp. 741-750

Jacinta C. Beehner, Daphne A. Onderdonk, Susan C. Alberts and Jeanne Altmann

Sexual dimorphism in immunocompetence: what does life-history theory predict? pp. 751-756

Andrew M. Stoehr and Hanna Kokko

Divergence of mate recognition in the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys) pp. 757-764

Neville Pillay, Jennifer Eborall and Guila Ganem

Female preference for complex/novel signals in a spider pp. 765-771

Damian O. Elias, Eileen A. Hebets and Ronald R. Hoy

Hatching order and size-dependent mortality in relation to brood sex ratio composition in chinstrap penguins pp. 772-778

Juan A. Fargallo, Vicente Polo, Liesbeth de Neve, José Martín, José A. Dávila and Manuel Soler

Mating preference of female zebrafish, Danio rerio, in relation to male dominance pp. 779-783

Rowena Spence and Carl Smith

The role of chromatic and achromatic signals for fruit detection by birds pp. 784-789

H. Martin Schaefer, Douglas J. Levey, Veronika Schaefer and Michael L. Avery

Seasonal changes in blue tit crown color: do they signal individual quality? pp. 790-798

Kaspar Delhey, Anne Peters, Arild Johnsen and Bart Kempenaers

Learning rules for optimal selection in a varying environment: mate choice revisited pp. 799-809

Edmund J. Collins, John M. McNamara and David Ramsey

Territorial songs indicate male quality in the sac-winged bat Saccopteryx bilineata (Chiroptera, Emballonuridae) pp. 810-817

Oliver Behr, Otto von Helversen, Gerald Heckel, Martina Nagy, Christian C. Voigt and Frieder Mayer

Negotiation over offspring care--how should parents respond to each other's efforts? pp. 818-827

Rufus A. Johnstone and Camilla A. Hinde

The effects of pattern symmetry on detection of disruptive and background-matching coloration pp. 828-832

Innes C. Cuthill, Martin Stevens, Amy M.M. Windsor and Hannah J. Walker

Variable patterns of density-dependent survival in social bacteria pp. 833-838

Supriya V. Kadam and Gregory J. Velicer

Open-cell parasitism shapes maternal investment patterns in the Red Mason bee Osmia rufa pp. 839-848

Karsten Seidelmann

Clutch size and the costs of incubation in the house wren pp. 849-856

Robert C. Dobbs, John D. Styrsky and Charles F. Thompson

The costs of autotomy and regeneration in animals: a review and framework for future research pp. 857-872

Tara Lynne Maginnis

Volume 17, issue 4, 2006

Habitat assessment by parasitoids: mechanisms for patch use behavior pp. 515-521

Cédric Tentelier, Emmanuel Desouhant and Xavier Fauvergue

Habitat assessment by parasitoids: consequences for population distribution pp. 522-531

Xavier Fauvergue, Roger Boll, Jacques Rochat, Eric Wajnberg, Carlos Bernstein and Laurent Lapchin

Toward an individual-level understanding of vigilance: the role of social information pp. 532-538

Andrew L. Jackson and Graeme D. Ruxton

Primary sex ratio adjustment to experimentally reduced male UV attractiveness in blue tits pp. 539-546

Peter Korsten, C. (Kate) M. Lessells, A. Christa Mateman, Marco van der Velde and Jan Komdeur

Predator-elicited visual signal: why the turquoise-browed motmot wag-displays its racketed tail pp. 547-553

Troy G. Murphy

Magnitude of food reward affects escape behavior and acceptable risk in Balearic lizards, Podarcis lilfordi pp. 554-559

William E. Cooper, Valentín Pérez-Mellado and Dror Hawlena

Stable group size in cooperative breeders: the role of inheritance and reproductive skew pp. 560-568

Michael A. Cant and Sinead English

Local resource competition and sex ratio in the ant Cataglyphis cursor pp. 569-574

Morgan Pearcy and Serge Aron

Conditional use of honest signaling by a Batesian mimic pp. 575-580

Ximena J. Nelson, Robert R. Jackson and Daiqin Li

Male meadow voles respond differently to risk and intensity of sperm competition pp. 581-585

Javier delBarco-Trillo and Michael H. Ferkin

Burrow decorations as antipredatory devices pp. 586-590

Jennifer L. Williams, Jordi Moya-Laraño and David H. Wise

Effect of the nutritional environment and reproductive investment on herbivore--parasite interactions in grazing environments pp. 591-596

L. A. Smith, P. C. L. White and M. R. Hutchings

Victory displays: a game-theoretic analysis pp. 597-605

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons and Tom N. Sherratt

Function of being colorful in web spiders: attracting prey or camouflaging oneself? pp. 606-613

I-Min Tso, Chen-Pan Liao, Ren-Pan Huang and En-Cheng Yang

Genetic evidence for kin-based female social structure in common eiders (Somateria mollissima) pp. 614-621

Laura McKinnon, H. Grant Gilchrist and Kim T. Scribner

Developmental divergence: neglected variable in understanding the evolution of reproductive skew in social animals pp. 622-627

Madeleine Beekman, Christian Peeters and M. Justin O'Riain

Resource-dependent nuptial feeding in Panorpa vulgaris: an honest signal for male quality pp. 628-632

S. Engels and K. P. Sauer

Asynchronous snowdrift game with synergistic effect as a model of cooperation pp. 633-641

Ádám Kun, Gergely Boza and István Scheuring

Spatial organization in a dimorphic ant: caste specificity of clustering patterns and area marking pp. 642-650

Grégory Sempo, Stéphanie Depickère and Claire Detrain

Experimental evidence that egg color indicates female condition at laying in a songbird pp. 651-655

Juan Moreno, Elisa Lobato, Judith Morales, Santiago Merino, Gustavo Tomás, Josué Martínez- de la Puente, Juan J. Sanz, Rafael Mateo and Juan J. Soler

Influence of body and genital morphology on relative male fertilization success in oriental beetle pp. 656-663

Erik J. Wenninger and Anne L. Averill

Female eviction, abortion, and infanticide in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): implications for social control of reproduction and synchronized parturition pp. 664-669

Jason S. Gilchrist

Dimorphic male midshipman fish: reduced sexual selection or sexual selection for reduced characters? pp. 670-675

Jonathan S. F. Lee and Andrew H. Bass

Vision-based innate aversion to ants and ant mimics pp. 676-681

Ximena J. Nelson and Robert R. Jackson

Comparing effect sizes across variables: generalization without the need for Bonferroni correction pp. 682-687

László Zsolt Garamszegi

The unequal variance t-test is an underused alternative to Student's t-test and the Mann--Whitney U test pp. 688-690

Graeme D. Ruxton

Volume 17, issue 3, 2006

Male courtship signals and female signal assessment in Photinus greeni fireflies pp. 329-335

Constantinos I. Michaelidis, Kristian C. Demary and Sara M. Lewis

Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model pp. 336-344

Anna Dornhaus, Franziska Klügl, Christoph Oechslein, Frank Puppe and Lars Chittka

Sex ratios under asymmetrical local mate competition in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis pp. 345-352

David M. Shuker, Ido Pen and Stuart A. West

Emasculation to plug up females: the significance of pedipalp damage in Nephila fenestrata pp. 353-357

Lutz Fromhage and Jutta M. Schneider

Lateralized female topminnows can forage and attend to a harassing male simultaneously pp. 358-363

Marco Dadda and Angelo Bisazza

Grooming in desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) and the ghost of parasites past pp. 364-371

Michael S. Mooring, Benjamin L. Hart, Thomas A. Fitzpatrick, Dominic D. Reisig, Tara T. Nishihira, Ian C. Fraser and Jill E. Benjamin

Testis size depends on social status and the presence of male helpers in the cooperatively breeding cichlid Julidochromis ornatus pp. 372-379

Satoshi Awata, Dik Heg, Hiroyuki Munehara and Masanori Kohda

Exclusive core areas in overlapping ranges of the sleepy lizard, Tiliqua rugosa pp. 380-391

Gregory D. Kerr and C. Michael Bull

Responses of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) to multimodal aposematic signals pp. 392-398

Katrine Hauglund, Snorre B. Hagen and Helene M. Lampe

Indicators of physiological stress and the elaboration of sexual traits in the collared flycatcher pp. 399-404

László Zsolt Garamszegi, Santiago Merino, János Török, Marcel Eens and Javier Martínez

Fine-scale substrate use by a small sit-and-wait predator pp. 405-409

Douglass H. Morse

Sociality in New World hystricognath rodents is linked to predators and burrow digging pp. 410-418

Luis A. Ebensperger and Daniel T. Blumstein

Cichlids do not adjust reproductive skew to the availability of independent breeding options pp. 419-429

Dik Heg, Ralph Bergmüller, Danielle Bonfils, Oliver Otti, Zina Bachar, Reto Burri, Gerald Heckel and Michael Taborsky

The effects of copulation duration in the bruchid beetle Callosobruchus maculatus pp. 430-434

Martin Edvardsson and David Canal

Females benefit from mating with different males in the scorpionfly Panorpa cognata pp. 435-440

Leif Engqvist

Is it better to give information, receive it, or be ignorant in a two-player game? pp. 441-451

John M. McNamara, Elaine M.K. Wilson and Alasdair I. Houston

Female striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) change their home ranges in response to seasonal variation in food availability pp. 452-458

Carsten Schradin and Neville Pillay

Public information and conspecific nest parasitism in goldeneyes: targeting safe nests by parasites pp. 459-465

Hannu Pöysä

Immunity and the expression of a secondary sexual trait in a horned beetle pp. 466-472

Joanne C. Pomfret and Robert J. Knell

Song discrimination suggests premating isolation among sympatric indigobird species and host races pp. 473-478

Christopher N. Balakrishnan and Michael D. Sorenson

Resource partitioning and interspecific interactions among sympatric rain forest arboreal mammals of the Western Ghats, India pp. 479-490

H.S. Sushma and Mewa Singh

Host-parasite relatedness in wood ducks: patterns of kinship and parasite success pp. 491-496

Charlotte Roy Nielsen, Brad Semel, Paul W. Sherman, David F. Westneat and Patricia G. Parker

Traveling or stopping of migrating birds in relation to wind: an illustration for the osprey pp. 497-502

Kasper Thorup, Thomas Alerstam, Mikael Hake and Nils Kjellén

Influence of age, kinship, and large-scale habitat quality on local foraging choices of Siberian jays pp. 503-509

Magdalena Nystrand

Signal residuals during shell fighting in hermit crabs: can costly signals be used deceptively? pp. 510-514

Mark Briffa

Volume 17, issue 2, 2006

Male and female cooperatively breeding fish provide support for the "Challenge Hypothesis" pp. 149-154

Julie K. Desjardins, Mark R. Hazelden, Glen J. Van der Kraak and Sigal Balshine

Song post exposure, song features, and predation risk pp. 155-163

A. P. Møller, J. T. Nielsen and L. Z. Garamszegi

The large-male advantage in brown antechinuses: female choice, male dominance, and delayed male death pp. 164-171

Diana O. Fisher and A. Cockburn

Maternal allocation of androgens and antagonistic effects of yolk androgens on sons and daughters pp. 172-181

Nicola Saino, Raffaella Paola Ferrari, Maria Romano, Roberta Martinelli, André Lacroix, Diego Gil and Anders Pape Møller

Size-dependent trait-mediated indirect interactions among sea urchin herbivores pp. 182-187

Aaren Freeman

Burrow fractal dimension and foraging success in subterranean rodents: a simulation pp. 188-195

S.C. Le Comber, E.W. Seabloom and S.S. Romañach

On the origin of brood parasitism in altricial birds pp. 196-205

Yoram Yom-Tov and Eli Geffen

Kin discrimination in the social lizard Egernia saxatilis (Scincidae) pp. 206-211

David E. O'Connor and Richard Shine

Provisioning in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): benefits to omnivorous young pp. 212-221

Lisa G. Rapaport

Collective detection in escape responses of temporary groups of Iberian green frogs pp. 222-226

José Martín, Juan José Luque-Larena and Pilar López

Behavioral ecology of odometric memories in desert ants: acquisition, retention, and integration pp. 227-235

Ken Cheng, Ajay Narendra and Rüdiger Wehner

Offspring sex ratio allocation in the parasitic jaeger: selection for pale females and melanic males? pp. 236-245

Kirstin Janssen, Kjell Einar Erikstad and Staffan Bensch

Effects of predator behavior and proximity on risk assessment by Columbian black-tailed deer pp. 246-254

Theodore Stankowich and Richard G. Coss

Male but not female pipefish copy mate choice pp. 255-259

Maria Sandvik Widemo

Overlapping signals in banded wrens: long-term effects of prior experience on males and females pp. 260-269

Michelle L. Hall, Anya Illes and Sandra L. Vehrencamp

The energetic cost of mate guarding is correlated with territorial intrusions in the New Zealand stitchbird pp. 270-276

Matthew Low

Habitat preference, escape behavior, and cues used by feather mites to avoid molting wing feathers pp. 277-284

Péter László Pap, Tibor Szép, Jácint Tökölyi and Steven Piper

Rufous-tailed jacamars and aposematic butterflies: do older birds attack novel prey? pp. 285-290

Gary M. Langham

Cooperation, conflict, and coevolution in the attine ant-fungus symbiosis pp. 291-296

Natasha J. Mehdiabadi, Benjamin Hughes and Ulrich G. Mueller

Optimal foraging on perilous prey: risk of bill damage reduces optimal prey size in oystercatchers pp. 297-302

Anne L. Rutten, Kees Oosterbeek, Bruno J. Ens and Simon Verhulst

Predator detection and avoidance by starlings under differing scenarios of predation risk pp. 303-309

Claire L. Devereux, Mark J. Whittingham, Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Juliet A. Vickery and John R. Krebs

Ultraviolet reflectance of great spotted cuckoo eggs and egg discrimination by magpies pp. 310-314

Jesús M. Avilés, Juan J. Soler, Tomas Pérez-Contreras, Manuel Soler and Anders Pape Møller

Preference in patchy landscapes: the influence of scale-specific intake rates and variance in reward pp. 315-323

Kate R. Searle, N. Thompson Hobbs, Bruce A. Wunder and Lisa A. Shipley

Volume 17, issue 1, 2006

How outcrossing hermaphrodites sense the presence of conspecifics and suppress female allocation pp. 1-5

Dáša Schleicherová, Maria Cristina Lorenzi and Gabriella Sella

Negotiation over offspring care?--a positive response to partner-provisioning rate in great tits pp. 6-12

C.A. Hinde

Sex ratio and male sexual characters in a population of blue tits, Parus caeruleus pp. 13-19

A. Dreiss, M. Richard, F. Moyen, J. White, A.P. Møller and E. Danchin

Age, parasites, and condition affect humoral immune response in tropical pythons pp. 20-24

Beata Ujvari and Thomas Madsen

Male reproductive suppression in the cooperatively breeding fish Neolamprologus pulcher pp. 25-33

J.L. Fitzpatrick, J.K. Desjardins, K.A. Stiver, R. Montgomerie and S. Balshine

Jumping spiders attend to context during learned avoidance of aposematic prey pp. 34-40

Christa D. Skow and Elizabeth M. Jakob

Plumage brightness predicts male mating success in the lekking golden-collared manakin, Manacus vitellinus pp. 41-47

Adam C. Stein and J. Albert C. Uy

A test of spatial memory and movement patterns of bumblebees at multiple spatial and temporal scales pp. 48-55

James G. Burns and James D. Thomson

Extrapair paternity and mate choice in a chickadee hybrid zone pp. 56-62

Matthew W. Reudink, Stephen G. Mech and Robert L. Curry

Light intensity limits foraging activity in nocturnal and crepuscular bees pp. 63-72

Almut Kelber, Eric J. Warrant, Michael Pfaff, Rita Wallén, Jamie C. Theobald, William T. Wcislo and Robert A. Raguso

Duets defend mates in a suboscine passerine, the warbling antbird (Hypocnemis cantator) pp. 73-83

Nathalie Seddon and Joseph A. Tobias

Great tits (Parus major) searching for artificial prey: implications for cryptic coloration and symmetry pp. 84-87

Sami Merilaita and Johan Lind

Size, operational sex ratio, and mate-guarding success of the carrion beetle, Necrophila americana pp. 88-96

Tania Tracy Knox and Michelle Pellissier Scott

Predators, reproductive parasites, and the persistence of poor males on leks pp. 97-107

Ian M. Hamilton, Marcel P. Haesler and Michael Taborsky

Rapid change in nest size of a bird related to change in a secondary sexual character pp. 108-116

Anders Pape Møller

Elevated spring testosterone increases parasite intensity in male red grouse pp. 117-125

François Mougeot, Stephen M. Redpath and Stuart B. Piertney

Parasitism of maternal investment selects for increased clutch size and brood reduction in a host pp. 126-131

Emma J.A. Cunningham and Sue Lewis

Sex differences in provisioning rules: responses of Manx shearwaters to supplementary chick feeding pp. 132-137

Keith C. Hamer, Petra Quillfeldt, Juan F. Masello and Kathy L. Fletcher

Why do sperm-depleted parasitoid males continue to mate? pp. 138-143

David Damiens and Guy Boivin

Evolution and maintenance of male care: is increased paternity a neglected benefit of care? pp. 144-148

Charlotta Kvarnemo