Behavioral Ecology

2002 - 2025

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Volume 15, issue 6, 2004

Within-clutch patterns of yolk testosterone vary with the onset of incubation in black-headed gulls pp. 893-397

Wendt Müller, Corine M. Eising, Cor Dijkstra and Ton G. G. Groothuis

When are two heads better than one? Visual perception and information transfer affect vigilance coordination in foraging groups pp. 898-906

Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Benjamin Kerr, Peter A. Bednekoff and David W. Stephens

Reproductive promiscuity in the splendid fairy-wren: effects of group size and auxiliary reproduction pp. 907-915

Michael S. Webster, Keith A. Tarvin, Elaina M. Tuttle and Stephen Pruett-Jones

Is there an optimal number of helpers in Alpine marmot family groups? pp. 916-924

Dominique Allainé and Fabienne Theuriau

The effects of habitat- and diet-based cues on association preferences in three-spined sticklebacks pp. 925-929

Ashley J. W. Ward, Paul J. B. Hart and Jens Krause

Testosterone, immunocompetence, and honest sexual signaling in male red grouse pp. 930-937

François Mougeot, Justin R. Irvine, Linzi Seivwright, Steve M. Redpath and Stuart Piertney

Associations between first encounters and ensuing social relations within dyads of two species of lacertid lizards pp. 938-945

Sharon Downes and Dirk Bauwens

Chic chicks: the evolution of chick ornamentation in rails pp. 946-951

Elizabeth A. Krebs and David A. Putland

Pup escorting in the communal breeding banded mongoose: behavior, benefits, and maintenance pp. 952-960

Jason S. Gilchrist

Extreme polygyny among southern elephant seals on Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands pp. 961-969

Anna Fabiani, Filippo Galimberti, Simona Sanvito and A. Rus Hoelzel

Reproductive monopoly enforced by sterile police workers in a queenless ant pp. 970-975

Virginie Cuvillier-Hot, Alain Lenoir and Christian Peeters

Body size--dependent gender role in a simultaneous hermaphrodite freshwater snail, Physa acuta pp. 976-981

Kako Ohbayashi-Hodoki, Fumiko Ishihama and Masakazu Shimada

Ultraviolet reflection and predation risk in diurnal and nocturnal Lepidoptera pp. 982-987

Anne Lyytinen, Leena Lindström and Johanna Mappes

Kinship in colonial tuco-tucos: evidence from group composition and population structure pp. 988-996

Eileen A. Lacey and John R. Wieczorek

Sex ratio variation in the cooperatively breeding alpine marmot Marmota marmota pp. 997-1002

Dominique Allainé

Modification of the visual background increases the conspicuousness of golden-collared manakin displays pp. 1003-1010

J. Albert C. Uy and John A. Endler

Effects of territorial intrusions on eavesdropping neighbors: communication networks in nightingales pp. 1011-1015

Marc Naguib, Valentin Amrhein and Hansjoerg P. Kunc

Nocturnal anti-predator adaptations in eared and earless Nearctic Lepidoptera pp. 1016-1022

Amanda R. Soutar and James H. Fullard

The relation between dominance and exploratory behavior is context-dependent in wild great tits pp. 1023-1030

Niels Jeroen Dingemanse and Piet de Goede

Nest size predicts the effect of food supplementation to magpie nestlings on their immunocompetence: an experimental test of nest size indicating parental ability pp. 1031-1036

Liesbeth De Neve, Juan José Soler, Manuel Soler and Tomás Pérez-Contreras

Social wasps desert the colony and aggregate outside if parasitized: parasite manipulation? pp. 1037-1043

David P. Hughes, Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, Stefano Turillazzi and Laura Beani

A farewell to Bonferroni: the problems of low statistical power and publication bias pp. 1044-1045

Shinichi Nakagawa

Volume 15, issue 5, 2004

Kinship and sociality in coastal river otters: are they related? pp. 705-714

Gail M. Blundell, Merav Ben-David, Pamela Groves, R. Terry Bowyer and Eli Geffen

Male brood care without paternity increases mating success pp. 715-721

Roger Härdling and Arja Kaitala

Juvenile infection and male display: testing the bright male hypothesis across individual life histories pp. 722-728

Gerald Borgia, Marc Egeth, J. Albert Uy and Gail L. Patricelli

Effects of food value, predation risk, and pilferage on the caching decisions of Dipodomys merriami pp. 729-734

Lisa A. Leaver

Male morphological variation and the determinants of body size in two Otiteselline fig wasps pp. 735-741

J. C. Moore, J. Pienaar and J. M. Greeff

Resource partitioning between sexes in the "unconventional" hermit crab, Calcinus tubularis pp. 742-747

Francesca Gherardi

Mating games: the evolution of human mating transactions pp. 748-756

Sarah E. Hill and H. Kern Reeve

Patterns of extrapair mating in relation to male dominance status and female nest placement in black-capped chickadees pp. 757-765

Daniel J. Mennill, Scott M. Ramsay, Peter T. Boag and Laurene M. Ratcliffe

Polygynandry in a red fox population: implications for the evolution of group living in canids? pp. 766-778

Philip J. Baker, Stephan M. Funk, Michael W. Bruford and Stephen Harris

Condition-dependent sexual traits and social dominance in the house finch pp. 779-784

Renée A. Duckworth, Mary T. Mendonça and Geoffrey E. Hill

Pattern of sperm transfer in redback spiders: implications for sperm competition and male sacrifice pp. 785-792

Lindsay S. E. Snow and Maydianne C. B. Andrade

No direct or indirect benefits to cryptic female choice in house crickets (Acheta domesticus) pp. 793-798

Rebecca R. Fleischman and Scott K. Sakaluk

Neighbor-stranger discrimination by song in a suboscine bird, the alder flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum pp. 799-804

Scott F. Lovell and M. Ross Lein

Ultraviolet reflectance affects male-male interactions in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus ultramarinus) pp. 805-809

Carlos Alonso-Alvarez, Claire Doutrelant and Gabriele Sorci

Assessment of local predation risk: the role of subthreshold concentrations of chemical alarm cues pp. 810-815

Grant E. Brown, Jean-Francois Poirier and James C. Adrian

Nest-site preference and maternal effects on offspring growth pp. 816-823

John D. Lloyd and Thomas E. Martin

Patterns of energy acquisition by a central place forager: benefits of alternating short and long foraging trips pp. 824-830

Yan Ropert-Coudert, Rory P. Wilson, Francis Daunt and Akiko Kato

Extended parental care and delayed dispersal: northern, tropical, and southern passerines compared pp. 831-838

Eleanor M. Russell, Yoram Yom-Tov and Eli Geffen

Egg marking pheromones of anarchistic worker honeybees (Apis mellifera) pp. 839-844

Stephen J. Martin, Nicolas Chaˆline, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Graeme R. Jones and Francis L. W. Ratnieks

Hemolymph loss during nuptial feeding constrains male mating success in sagebrush crickets pp. 845-849

Scott K. Sakaluk, Mark T. H. Campbell, Andrew P. Clark, J. Chadwick Johnson and Peter A. Keorpes

Birth sex ratio and social rank: consistency and variability within and between primate groups pp. 850-856

Gabriele Schino

Male sperm expenditure under sperm competition risk and intensity in quacking frogs pp. 857-863

Phillip G. Byrne

Are human preferences for facial symmetry focused on signals of developmental instability? pp. 864-871

Leigh W. Simmons, Gillian Rhodes, Marianne Peters and Nicole Koehler

Intrasexual selection and group spawning in quacking frogs (Crinia georgiana) pp. 872-882

Phillip G. Byrne and J. Dale Roberts

The effect of age on encounters between male crab spiders pp. 883-888

Helen H. Hu and Douglass H. Morse

European barn swallows use melanin pigments to color their feathers brown pp. 889-891

Kevin J. McGraw, Rebecca J. Safran, Matthew R. Evans and Kazumasa Wakamatsu

Volume 15, issue 4, 2004

Strong evidence for selection for larger brood size in a great tit population pp. 525-533

Joost M. Tinbergen and Juan J. Sanz

Evolution of alternative mating tactics: conditional versus mixed strategies pp. 534-542

Stewart J. Plaistow, Rufus A. Johnstone, Nick Colegrave and Matthew Spencer

Female collared flycatchers learn to prefer males with an artificial novel ornament pp. 543-548

Anna Qvarnström, Veronica Blomgren, Chris Wiley and Nina Svedin

Social stability and daily body mass gain in great tits pp. 549-554

Henrik Lange and Olof Leimar

Repertoire size, sexual selection, and offspring viability in the great reed warbler: changing patterns in space and time pp. 555-563

Wolfgang Forstmeier and Bernd Leisler

Young flying squirrels (Pteromys volans) dispersing in fragmented forests pp. 564-571

Vesa Selonen and Ilpo K. Hanski

Fetal sex ratio variation in the highly polygynous Himalayan tahr: evidence for differential male mortality pp. 572-578

David M. Forsyth, Ken G. Tustin, Jean-Michel Gaillard and Anne Loison

Attractiveness of women's body odors over the menstrual cycle: the role of oral contraceptives and receiver sex pp. 579-584

Seppo Kuukasjärvi, C. J. Peter Eriksson, Esa Koskela, Tapio Mappes, Kari Nissinen and Markus J. Rantala

A commitment model of reproductive inhibition in cooperatively breeding groups pp. 585-591

Ian M. Hamilton

Protandry and sexual dimorphism in trans-Saharan migratory birds pp. 592-601

Diego Rubolini, Fernando Spina and Nicola Saino

Sexual advertisement and immune function in an arachnid species (Lycosidae) pp. 602-606

Jari J. Ahtiainen, Rauno V. Alatalo, Raine Kortet and Markus J. Rantala

Against the odds? Nestling sex ratio variation in green-rumped parrotlets pp. 607-613

Amber E. Budden and Steven R. Beissinger

Morphological and behavioral defenses in dragonfly larvae: trait compensation and cospecialization pp. 614-620

Dirk Johannes Mikolajewski and Frank Johansson

Behavioral dynamics between caring males and females in a beetle with facultative biparental care pp. 621-628

Per T. Smiseth and Allen J. Moore

Predation risk, host immune response, and parasitism pp. 629-635

C. Navarro, F. de Lope, A. Marzal and A. P. Møller

Genetic analysis of song dialect populations in Puget Sound white-crowned sparrows pp. 636-646

Jill A. Soha, Douglas A. Nelson and Patricia G. Parker

Philopatry, kin clusters, and genetic relatedness in a population of woodrats (Neotoma macrotis) pp. 647-653

Marjorie D. Matocq and Eileen A. Lacey

Mechanisms and consequences of sexual conflict in garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis, Colubridae) pp. 654-660

Richard Shine, Ben Phillips, Tracy Langkilde, Deborah I. Lutterschmidt, Heather Waye and Robert T. Mason

Wasp behavior leads to uniform parasitism of a host available only a few hours per year pp. 661-665

Saskya van Nouhuys and Johanna Ehrnsten

Substrate type affects caching and pilferage of pine seeds by chipmunks pp. 666-672

Jennifer S. Briggs and Stephen B. Vander Wall

Multiple selection pressures influence Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) antipredator behavior pp. 673-678

Christopher N. Templeton and Walter M. Shriner

Behavioral interactions between salamanders and centipedes: competition in divergent taxa pp. 679-686

Cari-Ann M. Hickerson, Carl D. Anthony and Jill A. Wicknick

Effects of parasitic infection on mate sampling by female wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo): should infected females be more or less choosy? pp. 687-694

Richard Buchholz

Male fruit flies learn to avoid interspecific courtship pp. 695-698

Reuven Dukas

Synchrony, asynchrony, and temporally random mating: a new method for analyzing breeding synchrony pp. 699-700

A. Dale Marsden and Karl L. Evans

Volume 15, issue 3, 2004

Flock density, social foraging, and scanning: an experiment with starlings pp. 371-379

Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Steven Siller and Alex Kacelnik

Mutual ornamentation, sexual selection, and social dominance in the black swan pp. 380-389

Ken Kraaijeveld, John Gregurke, Carol Hall, Jan Komdeur and Raoul A. Mulder

Reproductive decision-making in the termite, Cryptotermes secundus (Kalotermitidae), under variable food conditions pp. 390-395

Judith Korb and Michael Lenz

Energetic state during learning affects foraging choices in starlings pp. 396-399

Barnaby Marsh, Cynthia Schuck-Paim and Alex Kacelnik

Cooperation and competition in two forest monkeys pp. 400-411

Winnie Eckardt and Klaus Zuberbühler

The effect of patch size and competitor number on aggression among foraging house sparrows pp. 412-418

Cheryl A. Johnson, James W. A. Grant and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Knowing your habitat: linking patch-encounter rate and patch exploitation in parasitoids pp. 419-425

Andra Thiel and Thomas S. Hoffmeister

Male reproductive investment and queen mating-frequency in fungus-growing ants pp. 426-432

Boris Baer and Jacobus J. Boomsma

Rodent foraging is affected by indirect, but not by direct, cues of predation risk pp. 433-437

John L. Orrock, Brent J. Danielson and R. Jory Brinkerhoff

Sexual swelling in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx): a test of the reliable indicator hypothesis pp. 438-445

Joanna M. Setchell and E. Jean Wickings

Host social behavior and parasitic infection: a multifactorial approach pp. 446-454

Vanessa O. Ezenwa

Plumage coloration, not length or symmetry of tail-streamers, is a sexually selected trait in North American barn swallows pp. 455-461

Rebecca J. Safran and Kevin J. McGraw

Rapid temporal change in frequency of infanticide in a passerine bird associated with change in population density and body condition pp. 462-468

Anders Pape Møller

The cost of dispersal: predation as a function of movement and site familiarity in ruffed grouse pp. 469-476

James M. Yoder, Elizabeth A. Marschall and David A. Swanson

Singing is not energetically demanding for pied flycatchers, Ficedula hypoleuca pp. 477-484

Sally Ward, Helene M. Lampe and Peter J. B. Slater

Patterns of song evolution and sexual selection in the oropendolas and caciques pp. 485-497

J. Jordan Price and Scott M. Lanyon

The energetic costs of egg heating constrain incubation attendance but do not determine daily energy expenditure in the pectoral sandpiper pp. 498-507

Will Cresswell, S. Holt, J. M. Reid, D. P. Whitfield, R. J. Mellanby, D. Norton and S. Waldron

Extrapair paternity and the evolution of bird song pp. 508-519

László Zsolt Garamszegi and Anders Pape Møller

The origin of parental care in birds: a reassessment pp. 520-523

Tomasz Wesołowski

Volume 15, issue 2, 2004

Male dominance and immunocompetence in a field cricket pp. 187-191

Markus J. Rantala and Raine Kortet

Hatchery selection promotes boldness in newly hatched brown trout (Salmo trutta): implications for dominance pp. 192-198

L. Fredrik Sundström, Erik Petersson, Johan Höjesjö, Jörgen I. Johnsson and Torbjörn Järvi

Have your cake and eat it too: male sand gobies show more parental care in the presence of female partners pp. 199-204

Christophe Pampoulie, Kai Lindström and Colette M. St. Mary

Sex differences in embryo development periods and effects on avian hatching patterns pp. 205-209

Mark I. Cook and Pat Monaghan

The evolution of egg size in the brood parasitic cuckoos pp. 210-218

Oliver Krüger and Nicholas B. Davies

Replacement female house sparrows regularly commit infanticide: gaining time or signaling status? pp. 219-222

José P. Veiga

Sex allocation within broods: the intrabrood sharing-out hypothesis pp. 223-232

Juan Carranza

A test of the importance of direct and indirect fitness benefits for helping decisions in western bluebirds pp. 233-238

Janis L. Dickinson

Female mate assessment and choice behavior affect the frequency of alternative male mating tactics pp. 239-247

Barney Luttbeg

Discrimination and classification of foraging paths produced by search-tactic models pp. 248-254

Chris L. Higgins and Richard E. Strauss

The economic basis of cooperation: tradeoffs between selfishness and generosity pp. 255-261

Jeffrey R. Stevens and David W. Stephens

Early learning affects social dominance: interspecifically cross-fostered tits become subdominant pp. 262-268

Bo Terning Hansen and Tore Slagsvold

The role of conformity in foraging when personal and social information conflict pp. 269-277

Rachel L. Kendal, Isabelle Coolen and Kevin N. Laland

Uncertainty in territory quality affects the benefits of usurpation in a Mediterranean wrasse pp. 278-285

Suzanne H. Alonzo

Scent marking by voles in response to predation risk: a field-laboratory validation pp. 286-289

Jerry O. Wolff

Site attachment of floaters predicts success in territory acquisition pp. 290-296

Leo W. Bruinzeel and Martijn van de Pol

Female signals enhance the efficiency of mate assessment in satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) pp. 297-304

Gail L. Patricelli, J. Albert C. Uy and Gerald Borgia

Relative allocation to horn and body growth in bighorn rams varies with resource availability pp. 305-312

Marco Festa-Bianchet, David W. Coltman, Luca Turelli and Jon T. Jorgenson

Steroid hormone profiles and relative body condition of calling and satellite toads: implications for proximate regulation of behavior in anurans pp. 313-320

Christopher J. Leary, Tim S. Jessop, Apryl M. Garcia and Rosemary Knapp

Exploitation of floral signals by crab spiders (Thomisus spectabilis, Thomisidae) pp. 321-326

Astrid M. Heiling, Ken Cheng and Marie E. Herberstein

Increased performance of offspring sired by parasitic males in bluegill sunfish pp. 327-331

Bryan D. Neff

Natural variation in the sexually selected feather ornaments of crested auklets (Aethia cristatella) does not predict future survival pp. 332-337

Ian L. Jones, Fiona M. Hunter, Gregory J. Robertson and Gail Fraser

Scent-marking displays provide honest signals of health and infection pp. 338-344

Sarah M. Zala, Wayne K. Potts and Dustin J. Penn

The influence of prey-scent stimuli on predatory behavior of the North American copperhead Agkistrodon contortrix (Serpentes: Viperidae) pp. 345-350

Eli Greenbaum

Sexual selection and mating patterns in a mammal with female-biased sexual size dimorphism pp. 351-356

Albrecht I. Schulte-Hostedde, John S. Millar and H. Lisle Gibbs

Symbiont choice in a fungus-growing ant (Attini, Formicidae) pp. 357-364

Ulrich G. Mueller, Jessica Poulin and Rachelle M. M. Adams

Size-based variation in antipredator behavior within a snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus) population pp. 365-370

Eric D. Roth and Joel A. Johnson

Volume 15, issue 1, 2004

Helpers increase long-term but not short-term productivity in cooperatively breeding long-tailed tits pp. 1-10

Ben J. Hatchwell, Andrew F. Russell, Andrew D.C. MacColl, Douglas J. Ross, Martin K. Fowlie and Andrew McGowan

Factors affecting life and death in Serengeti cheetahs: environment, age, and sociality pp. 11-22

Sarah M. Durant, Marcella Kelly and Tim M. Caro

Adjustment of copula duration and ejaculate size according to the risk of sperm competition in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata) pp. 23-30

Francisco García-González and Montserrat Gomendio

Proximate and ultimate causes of dispersal in the Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus pp. 31-40

Pablo Ferreras, Miguel Delibes, Francisco Palomares, José M. Fedriani, Javier Calzada and Eloy Revilla

Extrapair paternity, migration, and breeding synchrony in birds pp. 41-57

Claire Spottiswoode and Anders Pape Møller

Brood sex ratio in the Kentish plover pp. 58-62

Tamás Székely, Innes C. Cuthill, Stephen Yezerinac, Richard Griffiths and János Kis

The relative availabilities of complementary resources affect the feeding preferences of ant colonies pp. 63-70

Adam Kay

Sex ratio variation in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris pp. 71-82

Marie José Duchateau, Hayo H. W. Velthuis and Jacobus J. Boomsma

Does social complexity lead to sex-biased dispersal in polygynous mammals? A test on ground-dwelling sciurids pp. 83-87

Sébastien Devillard, Dominique Allainé, Jean-Michel Gaillard and Dominique Pontier

Chemical communication in an archaic anuran amphibian pp. 88-93

Bruce Waldman and Phillip J. Bishop

Factors affecting soldier allocation in clonal aphids: a life-history model and test pp. 94-101

Jabus G. Tyerman and Bernard D. Roitberg

Female and male Texas cichlids (Herichthys cyanoguttatum) do not fight by the same rules pp. 102-108

Matthew Draud, Rogelio Macías-Ordóñez, Jack Verga and Murray Itzkowitz

Phylogenetic analysis of life-history adaptations in parasitic cowbirds pp. 109-119

Myriam E. Mermoz and Juan Francisco Ornelas

The control of nest climate in bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies: interindividual variability and self reinforcement in fanning response pp. 120-128

Anja Weidenmüller

Testing a new version of the size-advantage hypothesis for sex change: sperm competition and size-skew effects in the bucktooth parrotfish, Sparisoma radians pp. 129-136

Roldan C. Muñoz and Robert R. Warner

Body size of virtual rivals affects ejaculate size in sticklebacks pp. 137-140

Marc Zbinden, Carlo R. Largiadèr and Theo C. M. Bakker

Asymmetry in size, shape, and color impairs the protective value of conspicuous color patterns pp. 141-147

Anders Forsman and Joakim Herrström

Immune challenge mediates vocal communication in a passerine bird: an experiment pp. 148-157

László Zsolt Garamszegi, Anders Pape Møller, János Török, Gábor Michl, Péter Péczely and Murielle Richard

Kin selection and reciprocity in flight formation? pp. 158-162

Malte Andersson and Johan Wallander

Vocal performance influences female response to male bird song: an experimental test pp. 163-168

Barbara Ballentine, Jeremy Hyman and Stephen Nowicki

Immunocompetence and resource holding potential in the damselfly, Calopteryx virgo L pp. 169-173

Jani Koskimäki, Markus J. Rantala, Jouni Taskinen, Katja Tynkkynen and Jukka Suhonen

Sex-specific growth rates in zebra finch nestlings: a possible mechanism for sex ratio adjustment pp. 174-180

Thaís Lima Fernandes Martins

Ideal flea constraints on group living: unwanted public goods and the emergence of cooperation pp. 181-186

Dominic D. P. Johnson, Pavel Stopka and David W. Macdonald