Behavioral Ecology

2002 - 2025

Current editor(s): Louise Barrett

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Volume 16, issue 6, 2005

Flexible social structure of a desert rodent, Rhombomys opimus: philopatry, kinship, and ecological constraints pp. 961-973

Jan A. Randall, Konstantin Rogovin, Patricia G. Parker and John A. Eimes

Alternative models of conspecific attraction in flies and crabs pp. 974-980

Judy Stamps, Richard McElreath and Perri Eason

Xenophilic mating preferences among populations of the jumping spider Habronattus pugillis Griswold pp. 981-988

Eileen A. Hebets and Wayne P. Maddison

Harvesting resources in groups or alone: the case of renewing patches pp. 989-993

Guy Beauchamp and Graeme D. Ruxton

What makes a nest-building male successful? Male behavior and female care in penduline tits pp. 994-1000

István Szentirmai, Jan Komdeur and Tamás Székely

Territorial male gobies respond aggressively to sneakers but do not adjust their sperm expenditure pp. 1001-1007

Marta Scaggiante, Maria Berica Rasotto, Chiara Romualdi and Andrea Pilastro

Stress, resource allocation, and mortality pp. 1008-1017

J. M. McNamara and K. L. Buchanan

Pre- and postdispersal seed predation by rodents: balance of food and safety pp. 1018-1024

Jose M. Fedriani and Antonio J. Manzaneda

Audience effect is context dependent in Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens pp. 1025-1030

Teresa L. Dzieweczynski, Ryan L. Earley, Tracie M. Green and William J. Rowland

Population density, body size, and phenotypic plasticity of brood size in a burying beetle pp. 1031-1036

J. Curtis Creighton

Flight or fight: flexible antipredatory strategies in porcelain crabs pp. 1037-1041

Kerstin Wasson and Bruce E. Lyon

The importance of sperm competition risk and nest appearance for male behavior and female choice in the sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus pp. 1042-1048

Ola Svensson and Charlotta Kvarnemo

Volume 16, issue 5, 2005

Paternity in mallards: effects of sperm quality and female sperm selection for inbreeding avoidance pp. 825-833

Angelika G. Denk, Alois Holzmann, Anne Peters, Etiënne L.M. Vermeirssen and Bart Kempenaers

Spatial clumping of food and social dominance affect interference competition among ruddy turnstones pp. 834-844

Wouter K. Vahl, Tamar Lok, Jaap van der Meer, Theunis Piersma and Franz J. Weissing

The mechanisms of interference competition: two experiments on foraging waders pp. 845-855

Wouter K. Vahl, Jaap van der Meer, Franz J. Weissing, Diederik van Dullemen and Theunis Piersma

An evolutionarily stable joining policy for group foragers pp. 856-864

Graeme D. Ruxton, Chris Fraser and Mark Broom

Foraging nine-spined sticklebacks prefer to rely on public information over simpler social cues pp. 865-870

Isabelle Coolen, Ashley J.W. Ward, Paul J.B. Hart and Kevin N. Laland

Female choice for male immunocompetence: when is it worth it? pp. 871-879

Shelley A. Adamo and Raymond J. Spiteri

Predicting the temporal dynamics of reproductive skew and group membership in communal breeders pp. 880-888

Andrew G. Zink and H. Kern Reeve

Relative influence of male and female genital morphology on paternity in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus pp. 889-897

Clarissa M. House and Leigh W. Simmons

Behavioral ecology of disturbed landscapes: the response of territorial animals to relocation pp. 898-905

Catherine E. Burns

Exploring individual quality: basal metabolic rate and reproductive performance in storm-petrels pp. 906-913

Alexis L. Blackmer, Robert A. Mauck, Joshua T. Ackerman, Charles E. Huntington, Gabrielle A. Nevitt and Joseph B. Williams

Paternity and paternal effort in the pumpkinseed sunfish pp. 914-921

Oscar Rios-Cardenas and Michael S. Webster

Sex allocation and nestling survival in a dimorphic raptor: does size matter? pp. 922-930

Paul G. McDonald, Penny D. Olsen and Andrew Cockburn

Evidence for the signaling function of egg color in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca pp. 931-937

Juan Moreno, Judith Morales, Elisa Lobato, Santiago Merino, Gustavo Tomás and Josué Martínez- de la Puente

Mortality by moonlight: predation risk and the snowshoe hare pp. 938-944

Paul C. Griffin, Suzanne C. Griffin, Carl Waroquiers and L. Scott Mills

Determining the fitness consequences of antipredation behavior pp. 945-956

Johan Lind and Will Cresswell

Experience counts: lessons from studies of differential allocation pp. 957-960

Alison N. Rutstein, Lucy Gilbert and Joseph L. Tomkins

Volume 16, issue 4, 2005

Spinner dolphins in a remote Hawaiian atoll: social grouping and population structure pp. 675-685

Leszek Karczmarski, Bernd Würsig, Glenn Gailey, Keith W. Larson and Cynthia Vanderlip

The evolution of egg rejection by cuckoo hosts in Australia and Europe pp. 686-692

N.E. Langmore, R.M. Kilner, S.H.M. Butchart, G. Maurer, N.B. Davies, A. Cockburn, N.A. Macgregor, A. Peters, M.J.L. Magrath and D.K. Dowling

Patch exploitation strategies of parasitic wasps under intraspecific competition pp. 693-701

Marlène Goubault, Yannick Outreman, Denis Poinsot and Anne Marie Cortesero

A taste for novelty in invading house sparrows, Passer domesticus pp. 702-707

Lynn B. Martin and Lisa Fitzgerald

Helping effort in a dominance hierarchy pp. 708-715

Michael A. Cant and Jeremy Field

Context dependence of personalities: risk-taking behavior in a social and a nonsocial situation pp. 716-723

Kees van Oers, Margreet Klunder and Piet J. Drent

Mate guarding, male attractiveness, and paternity under social monogamy pp. 724-731

Hanna Kokko and Lesley J. Morrell

The role of wind in passerine autumn migration between Europe and Africa pp. 732-740

Birgit Erni, Felix Liechti and Bruno Bruderer

Effects of water-level fluctuations on the littoral benthic fish community in lakes: a mesocosm experiment pp. 741-746

Philipp Fischer and Uta Öhl

Manipulation of male quality in wild tits: effects on paternity loss pp. 747-754

Lars Erik Johannessen, Tore Slagsvold, Bo Terning Hansen and Jan T. Lifjeld

Reproductive asynchrony and population divergence between two tropical bird populations pp. 755-762

Ignacio T. Moore, Frances Bonier and John C. Wingfield

Sex allocation in response to paternal attractiveness in the zebra finch pp. 763-769

A.N. Rutstein, H.E. Gorman, K.E. Arnold, L. Gilbert, K.J. Orr, A. Adam, R. Nager and J.A. Graves

The evolution of progressive provisioning pp. 770-778

Jeremy Field

Egg size and reproductive allocation in eusocial thrips pp. 779-787

Brenda D. Kranz

Why do male Callosobruchus maculatus harm their mates? pp. 788-793

Martin Edvardsson and Tom Tregenza

Sexually transmitted parasites and host mating behavior in the decorated cricket pp. 794-799

Lien T. Luong and Harry K. Kaya

Learning affects mate choice in female fruit flies pp. 800-804

Reuven Dukas

Mutual ornamentation, age, and reproductive performance in the European starling pp. 805-817

Jan Komdeur, Margot Oorebeek, Thijs van Overveld and Innes C. Cuthill

Species recognition by male swordtails via chemical cues pp. 818-822

Bob B.M. Wong, Heidi S. Fisher and Gil G. Rosenthal

Reply to: European barn swallows use melanin pigments to color their feathers brown pp. 823-823

Riccardo Stradi

Volume 16, issue 3, 2005

Male reed buntings do not adjust parental effort in relation to extrapair paternity pp. 499-506

Karen M. Bouwman, C(Kate). M. Lessells and Jan Komdeur

Brood parasitic European starlings do not lay high-quality eggs pp. 507-513

Kevin M. Pilz, Henrik G. Smith and Malte Andersson

Behavioral syndromes influence mating systems: floater pairs of a lizard have heavier offspring pp. 514-520

Jessica Stapley and J. Scott Keogh

Group stability and homing behavior but no kin group structures in a coral reef fish pp. 521-527

N. Kolm, E.A. Hoffman, J. Olsson, A. Berglund and A.G. Jones

Effects of reproductive state and host resource experience on mating decisions in a walnut fly pp. 528-533

L.D. Carsten and D.R. Papaj

You can run--or you can hide: optimal strategies for cryptic prey against pursuit predators pp. 534-540

Mark Broom and Graeme D. Ruxton

State-dependent male mating tactics in the grey seal: the importance of body size pp. 541-549

Damian C. Lidgard, Daryl J. Boness, W. Don Bowen and Jim I. McMillan

Optimal group size and seasonal stress in ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) pp. 550-560

R. Ethan Pride

No evidence for increased offspring heterozygosity from extrapair mating in the reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) pp. 561-565

Oddmund Kleven and Jan T. Lifjeld

Alternative reproductive tactics and status-dependent selection pp. 566-570

Jonathan S.F. Lee

How cricket frog females deal with a noisy world: habitat-related differences in auditory tuning pp. 571-579

Klaudia Witte, Hamilton E. Farris, Michael J. Ryan and Walter Wilczynski

Age-dependent health status and song characteristics in the barn swallow pp. 580-591

László Z. Garamszegi, Dieter Heylen, Anders P. Møller, Marcel Eens and Florentino de Lope

Efficient harvesting of renewing resources pp. 592-605

Kazuharu Ohashi and James D. Thomson

Maternal rank is not correlated with cub survival in the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta pp. 606-613

Paula A. White

Constraints on control: factors influencing reproductive success in male mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) pp. 614-623

Marie Charpentier, Patricia Peignot, Martine Hossaert-McKey, Olivier Gimenez, Joanna M. Setchell and E. Jean Wickings

Allometry and variability of resource allocation to reproduction in a wild reindeer population pp. 624-633

Anne Loison and Olav Strand

Reproductive consequences of natal dispersal in a highly philopatric seabird pp. 634-639

Ulrich K. Steiner and Anthony J. Gaston

Diel activity and home range size in relation to food supply in a drift-feeding stream fish pp. 640-648

Eric A. Hansen and Gerard P. Closs

Sex-role reversal revisited: choosy females and ornamented, competitive males in a pipefish pp. 649-655

Anders Berglund, Maria Sandvik Widemo and Gunilla Rosenqvist

Water-seeking behavior in insects harboring hairworms: should the host collaborate? pp. 656-660

David G. Biron, Fleur Ponton, Cécile Joly, Aurélie Menigoz, Ben Hanelt and Frédéric Thomas

Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) store both food and information in honeypots pp. 661-666

Anna Dornhaus and Lars Chittka

Experimental evidence for helper effects in a cooperatively breeding cichlid pp. 667-673

Lyanne Brouwer, Dik Heg and Michael Taborsky

Volume 16, issue 2, 2005

Countershading enhances crypsis with some bird species but not others pp. 327-334

Michael P. Speed, David J. Kelly, Andrew M. Davidson and Graeme D. Ruxton

Sexually size dimorphic brains and song complexity in passerine birds pp. 335-345

László Zsolt Garamszegi, Marcel Eens, Johannes Erritzøe and Anders Pape Møller

Female choice and male humoral immune response in the lekking great snipe (Gallinago media) pp. 346-351

Robert Ekblom, Stein Are Sæther, Dennis Hasselquist, David Hannersjö, Peder Fiske, John Atle Kålås and Jacob Höglund

The group-size paradox: effects of learning and patch departure rules pp. 352-357

Guy Beauchamp and Esteban Fernández-Juricic

Why long-lived species are more likely to be social: the role of local dominance pp. 358-363

Jo Ridley, Douglas W. Yu and William J. Sutherland

Diet of intraguild predators affects antipredator behavior in intraguild prey pp. 364-370

Sara Magalhães, Christian Tudorache, Marta Montserrat, Roos van Maanen, Maurice W. Sabelis and Arne Janssen

The adaptive significance of stealing in a marine bird and its relationship to parental quality pp. 371-376

David A. Shealer, Jeffrey A. Spendelow, Jeff S. Hatfield and Ian C. T. Nisbet

Safer sex with feeding females: sexual conflict in a cannibalistic spider pp. 377-382

Lutz Fromhage and Jutta M. Schneider

Female collared flycatchers adjust yolk testosterone to male age, but not to attractiveness pp. 383-388

Gábor Michl, János Török, Péter Péczely, László Z. Garamszegi and Hubert Schwabl

O-sub-2 replenishment to fish nests: males adjust brood care to ambient conditions and brood development pp. 389-397

Bridget S. Green and Mark I. McCormick

Low fertility in humans as the evolutionary outcome of snowballing resource games pp. 398-402

Sarah E. Hill and H. Kern Reeve

Absence of nepotism toward imprisoned young queens during swarming in the honey bee pp. 403-409

Nicolas Châline, Stephen J. Martin and Francis L.W. Ratnieks

Does immunity regulate ejaculate quality and fertility in humans? pp. 410-416

Philip A. Skau and Ivar Folstad

Cost/benefit analysis of group and solitary resting in the cowtail stingray, Pastinachus sephen pp. 417-426

Christina A. D. Semeniuk and Lawrence M. Dill

Increased parental care cost for nest-guarding fish in a lake with hyperabundant nest predators pp. 427-434

Geoffrey B. Steinhart, Melissa E. Sandrene, Stephanie Weaver, Roy A. Stein and Elizabeth A. Marschall

Should I stay or should I go? Female brood desertion and male counterstrategy in rock sparrows pp. 435-441

Matteo Griggio, Giuliano Matessi and Andrea Pilastro

Sex-biased environmental sensitivity: natural and experimental evidence from a bird species with larger females pp. 442-449

Ellen Kalmbach, Robert W. Furness and Richard Griffiths

The influence of the father on offspring development in the striped mouse pp. 450-455

Carsten Schradin and Neville Pillay

Extrapair fertilization and genetic similarity of social mates in the Mexican jay pp. 456-460

John A. Eimes, Patricia G. Parker, Jerram L. Brown and Esther R. Brown

Sequential mate encounters: female but not male body size influences female remating behavior pp. 461-466

Martin A. Schäfer and Gabriele Uhl

Birds associate species-specific acoustic and visual cues: recognition of heterospecific rivals by male blackcaps pp. 467-471

Piotr Matyjasiak

Intraspecific competition influences the symmetry and intensity of aggression in the Argentine ant pp. 472-481

Melissa L. Thomas, Neil D. Tsutsui and David A. Holway

Effects of predation pressure on the cognitive ability of the poeciliid Brachyraphis episcopi pp. 482-487

Culum Brown and Victoria A. Braithwaite

Quorum sensing by encounter rates in the ant Temnothorax albipennis pp. 488-496

Stephen C. Pratt

The spatial and temporal repeatability of PHA-responses pp. 497-498

Martin Granbom, Lars Råberg and Henrik G. Smith

Volume 16, issue 1, 2005

Addition of arthropod cocoons to house wren nests is correlated with delayed pairing pp. 1-7

Kevin P. Eckerle and Charles F. Thompson

Risky decisions: a test of risk sensitivity in socially foraging flocks of Lonchura punctulata pp. 8-14

Gi-Mick Wu and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Nestmate recognition in the unicolonial ant Formica paralugubris pp. 15-19

Michel Chapuisat, Christian Bernasconi, Sophie Hoehn and Max Reuter

Longer breeding dispersal than natal dispersal in the ortolan bunting pp. 20-24

Svein Dale, Anne Lunde and Øyvind Steifetten

Specific color sensitivities of prey and predator explain camouflage in different visual systems pp. 25-29

Marc Théry, Martine Debut, Doris Gomez and Jérôme Casas

Microbial infection affects egg viability and incubation behavior in a tropical passerine pp. 30-36

Mark I. Cook, Steven R. Beissinger, Gary A. Toranzos, Roberto A. Rodriguez and Wayne J. Arendt

Cost of mobbing call to breeding pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca pp. 37-40

Tatjana Krama and Indrikis Krams

Offspring sex ratios correlate with pair--male condition in a cooperatively breeding fairy--wren pp. 41-47

Melanie K. Rathburn and Robert Montgomerie

Selection on body size in a raptor with pronounced reversed sexual size dimorphism: are bigger females better? pp. 48-56

Paul G. McDonald, Penny D. Olsen and Andrew Cockburn

The parental investment model and minimum mate choice criteria in humans pp. 57-61

Kevin Woodward and Miriam H. Richards

Sex-specific patterns of yolk androgen allocation depend on maternal diet in the zebra finch pp. 62-69

Alison N. Rutstein, Lucy Gilbert, Peter J. B. Slater and Jeff A. Graves

Effects of resource holding potential and resource value on tenure at nest sites in sand gobies pp. 70-74

Kai Lindström and Christophe Pampoulie

Attention-altering signal interactions in the multimodal courtship display of the wolf spider Schizocosa uetzi pp. 75-82

Eileen A. Hebets

Female affiliative preference depends on reproductive state in the African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni pp. 83-88

Tricia S. Clement, Kerry E. Grens and Russell D. Fernald

Elaborate ornaments are costly to maintain: evidence for high maintenance handicaps pp. 89-95

Bruno A. Walther and Dale H. Clayton

The heterospecific habitat copying hypothesis: can competitors indicate habitat quality? pp. 96-105

Deseada Parejo, Etienne Danchin and Jesús M. Avilés

Primate copulation calls and postcopulatory female choice pp. 106-113

Dario Maestripieri and James R. Roney

Larval food source promotes cyclic seasonal variation in polyandry in the moth Lobesia botrana pp. 114-122

Luis M. Torres-Vila, M. Carmen Rodríguez-Molina, Miguel McMinn and Ana Rodríguez-Molina

Mating rate and fitness in female bean weevils pp. 123-127

Göran Arnqvist, Tina Nilsson and Mari Katvala

Heat shielding: a task for youngsters pp. 128-132

Philip T. Starks, Rebecca N. Johnson, Adam J. Siegel and Meridith M. Decelle

Common waxbills use carnivore scat to reduce the risk of nest predation pp. 133-137

Justin G. Schuetz

Effects of extra-pair and within-pair reproductive success on the opportunity for selection in birds pp. 138-144

Linda A. Whittingham and Peter O. Dunn

Allometry and sexual selection of male weaponry in Wellington tree weta, Hemideina crassidens pp. 145-152

Clint D. Kelly

Sexually transmitted nematodes affect spermatophylax production in the cricket, Gryllodes sigillatus pp. 153-158

Lien T. Luong and Harry K. Kaya

Relationship of visual and olfactory signal parameters in a food-deceptive flower mimicry system pp. 159-168

C. Giovanni Galizia, Jan Kunze, Andreas Gumbert, Anna-Karin Borg-Karlson, Silke Sachse, Christian Markl and Randolf Menzel

The evolution of vocal alarm communication in rodents pp. 169-177

Erin L. Shelley and Daniel T. Blumstein

Density distribution and size sorting in fish schools: an individual-based model pp. 178-187

Charlotte K. Hemelrijk and Hanspeter Kunz

Do "sperm trading" simultaneous hermaphrodites always trade sperm? pp. 188-195

Nils Anthes and Nico K. Michiels

Male attractiveness covaries with fighting ability but not with prior fight outcome in house crickets pp. 196-200

Kate E. Savage, John Hunt, Michael D. Jennions and Robert Brooks

Does courtship behavior contribute to species-level reproductive isolation in field crickets? pp. 201-206

David A. Gray

Are least flycatcher (Empidonax minimus) clusters hidden leks? pp. 207-217

Scott A. Tarof, Laurene M. Ratcliffe, Michael M. Kasumovic and Peter T. Boag

Achromatic plumage reflectance predicts reproductive success in male black-capped chickadees pp. 218-222

Stéphanie M. Doucet, Daniel J. Mennill, Robert Montgomerie, Peter T. Boag and Laurene M. Ratcliffe

Preferred males are not always good providers: female choice and male investment in tree crickets pp. 223-231

Luc F. Bussière, Hassaan Abdul Basit and Darryl T. Gwynne

Variation in social behavior within a spider mite genus, Stigmaeopsis (Acari: Tetranychidae) pp. 232-238

Kotaro Mori and Yutaka Saito

Sexual harassment in heterogeneous landscapes can mediate population regulation in a grasshopper pp. 239-246

Silke Bauer, Jörg Samietz and Uta Berger

Exploration of environmental changes relates to lifestyle pp. 247-254

Claudia Mettke-Hofmann, Michael Wink, Hans Winkler and Bernd Leisler

Precopulatory choice for cues of material benefits in tree crickets pp. 255-259

Luc F. Bussière, Andrew P. Clark and Darryl T. Gwynne

Sex, drugs and mating role: testosterone-induced phenotype-switching in Galapagos marine iguanas pp. 260-268

Martin Wikelski, Silke S. Steiger, Bernhard Gall and Karin N. Nelson

Cohabitation of juvenile females with mature males promotes sexual cannibalism in fishing spiders pp. 269-273

J. Chadwick Johnson

Maternal condition and offspring sex ratio in polygynous ungulates: a case study of bighorn sheep pp. 274-279

Pierrick Blanchard, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Jean-Michel Gaillard and Jon T. Jorgenson

Foraging time of rutting bighorn rams varies with individual behavior, not mating tactic pp. 280-285

Fanie Pelletier

Operational sex ratio in newts: field responses and characterization of a constituent chemical cue pp. 286-293

Jason R. Rohr, Daesik Park, Aaron M. Sullivan, Malachy McKenna, Catherine R. Propper and Dale M. Madison

The effects of resource availability on alternative mating tactics in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) pp. 294-300

Gita R. Kolluru and Gregory F. Grether

Female preference for fast-rate, high-pitched calls in Hermann's tortoises Testudo hermanni pp. 301-308

Paolo Galeotti, Roberto Sacchi, Daniele Pellitteri Rosa and Mauro Fasola

Predator-induced plasticity in nest visitation rates in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus) pp. 309-315

Sönke Eggers, Michael Griesser and Jan Ekman

Dispersal and prepupation behavior of Chilean sympatric Drosophila species that breed in the same site in nature pp. 316-322

María Cristina Medina-Muñoz and Raúl Godoy-Herrera

What hypothesis tests are not: a response to Colegrave and Ruxton pp. 323-324

Douglas H. Johnson

What hypothesis tests are not: a reply to Johnson pp. 325-325

Nick Colegrave and Graeme D. Ruxton