Behavioral Ecology

2002 - 2025

Current editor(s): Louise Barrett

From International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK.
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Volume 14, issue 6, 2003

Helping opportunities and space segregation in cooperatively breeding cichlids pp. 749-756

Noam Y. Werner, Sigal Balshine, Brenda Leach and Arnon Lotem

When will rejection of parasite nestlings by hosts of nonevicting avian brood parasites be favored? A misimprinting-equilibrium model pp. 757-770

Michael J. Lawes and Toby R. Marthews

Mate choice in the face of costly competition pp. 771-779

Tim W. Fawcett and Rufus A. Johnstone

Sibling negotiation pp. 780-786

Rufus A. Johnstone and Alexandre Roulin

Do male two-spotted gobies prefer large fecund females? pp. 787-792

Christophe Pe´labon, Åsa A. Borg, Jens Bjelvenmark, Elisabet Forsgren, Iain Barber and Trond Amundsen

Food limitation in asynchronous bluethroat broods: effects on food distribution, nestling begging, and parental provisioning rules pp. 793-801

Per T. Smiseth, Rolf J. Bu, Aase K. Eikenæs and Trond Amundsen

Adaptation versus pleiotropy: why do males harm their mates? pp. 802-806

Edward H. Morrow, Go¨ran Arnqvist and Scott Pitnick

The waiting game: a "battle of waits" between predator and prey pp. 807-817

Don M. Hugie

Sexual dimorphism and synchrony of breeding: variation in polygyny potential among populations in the common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula pp. 818-822

Joanne L. Isaac and Christopher N. Johnson

Ecological and behavioral correlates of coloration in artiodactyls: systematic analyses of conventional hypotheses pp. 823-840

C. J. Stoner, T. M. Caro and C. M. Graham

The behavioral ecology of threshold evolution in a polyphenic beetle pp. 841-854

Armin P. Moczek

Structural and melanin coloration indicate parental effort and reproductive success in male eastern bluebirds pp. 855-861

Lynn Siefferman and Geoffrey E. Hill

Sex-ratio variation and reproductive costs in relation to density in a forest-dwelling population of red deer (Cervus elaphus) pp. 862-869

Christophe Bonenfant, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Anne Loison and Franc¸ois Klein

Reproductive sharing among queens in the ant Formica fusca pp. 870-875

Minttumaaria Hannonen and Liselotte Sundstro¨m

When should males lek? Insights from a dynamic state variable model pp. 876-886

Kavita Isvaran and Colette M. St. Mary

Grooming among female Japanese macaques: distinguishing between reciprocation and interchange pp. 887-891

Gabriele Schino, Raffaella Ventura and Alfonso Troisi

The ultimate effect of being cleaned: does ectoparasite removal have reproductive consequences for damselfish clients? pp. 892-896

Karen L. Cheney and Isabelle M. Coˆte´

Conspecifics enhance egg production in an egg-carrying bug pp. 897-901

Mari Katvala and Arja Kaitala

Does dominance status correlate with growth in wild stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)? pp. 902-908

Andrew J. Harwood, John D. Armstrong, Neil B. Metcalfe and Siaˆn W. Griffiths

Dietary carotenoid pigments and immune function in a songbird with extensive carotenoid-based plumage coloration pp. 909-916

Kristen J. Navara and Geoffrey E. Hill

The impact of learning foster species' song on the evolution of specialist avian brood parasitism pp. 917-923

J. B. Beltman, P. Haccou and C. ten Cate

Volume 14, issue 5, 2003

Food, vigilance, and sperm: the role of male direct benefits in the evolution of female preference in a polygamous bird pp. 593-601

Tommaso Pizzari

The cost of aggregation: juvenile salmon avoid sharing winter refuges with siblings pp. 602-606

Siaˆn W. Griffiths, John D. Armstrong and Neil B. Metcalfe

Accessory gland size influences time to sexual maturity and mating frequency in the stalk-eyed fly, Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni pp. 607-611

Richard H. Baker, Matthew Denniff, Peter Futerman, Kevin Fowler, Andrew Pomiankowski and Tracey Chapman

Heritability of three condition surrogates in the yellow dung fly pp. 612-618

Wolf U. Blanckenhorn and David J. Hosken

Predator exposure alters female mate choice in the green swordtail pp. 619-625

Jerald B. Johnson and Alexandra L. Basolo

Context-dependent reproductive site choice in a Neotropical frog pp. 626-633

Peter J. Murphy

Sperm investment and alternative mating tactics in bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) pp. 634-641

Bryan D. Neff, Peng Fu and Mart R. Gross

Social influences on ranging patterns among chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the Tai¨ National Park, Coˆte d'Ivoire pp. 642-649

Julia Lehmann and Christophe Boesch

Genetic, prenatal, and postnatal correlates of dispersal in hatchling fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis) pp. 650-655

Manuel Massot, Raymond B. Huey, Joyce Tsuji and Fredrica H. van Berkum

Reciprocal pilferage and the evolution of food-hoarding behavior pp. 656-667

Stephen B. Vander Wall and Stephen H. Jenkins

Major histocompatibility complex genes, symmetry, and body scent attractiveness in men and women pp. 668-678

Randy Thornhill, Steven W. Gangestad, Robert Miller, Glenn Scheyd, Julie K. McCollough and Melissa Franklin

Selection for multiple mating in females due to mates that reduce female fitness pp. 679-686

Patrick D. Lorch and Lin Chao

Quantifying the costs and benefits of parental care in female treehoppers pp. 687-693

Andrew G. Zink

To trill or not to trill? Territorial response to a heterospecific vocal trait in male collared doves, Streptopelia decaocto pp. 694-701

Jean Secondi, Paula M. den Hartog and Carel ten Cate

First evidence of sex differences in the duration of avian embryonic period: consequences for sibling competition in sexually dimorphic birds pp. 702-706

Guillermo Blanco, Jesu´s Marti´nez-Padilla, Jose´ A. Da´vila, David Serrano and Javier Vin˜uela

Extrapair paternity in relation to sexual ornamentation, arrival date, and condition in a migratory bird pp. 707-712

A. P. Møller, J. Brohede, J. J. Cuervo, F. de Lope and C. Primmer

Encounter-induced hostility to neighbors in the ant Pristomyrmex pungens pp. 713-718

Sachiyo Sanada-Morimura, Megumi Minai, Mika Yokoyama, Tadao Hirota, Toshiyuki Satoh and Yoshiaki Obara

Lanchester's attrition models and fights among social animals pp. 719-723

Eldridge S. Adams and Michael Mesterton-Gibbons

Increased vigilance of paired males in sexually dimorphic species: distinguishing between alternative explanations in wintering Eurasian wigeon pp. 724-729

Matthieu Guillemain, Richard W. G. Caldow, Kathy H. Hodder and John D. Goss-Custard

Food supplementation affects extrapair paternity in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) pp. 730-735

Radovan Va´clav, Herbert Hoi and Donald Blomqvist

Pouncing spider, flying mosquito: blood acquisition increases predation risk in mosquitoes pp. 736-740

Bernard D. Roitberg, Edward B. Mondor and Jabus G. A. Tyerman

Predation by red-jointed fiddler crabs on congeners: interaction between body size and positive allometry of the sexually selected claw pp. 741-747

Denson K. McLain, Ann E. Pratt and Allison S. Berry

Volume 14, issue 4, 2003

Experimental manipulation of tail length in female barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) affects their future reproductive success pp. 451-456

Jose´ Javier Cuervo, Anders Pape Møller and Florentino de Lope

Brood size, sibling competition, and the cost of begging in great tits (Parus major) pp. 457-462

Samuel Neuenschwander, Martin W. G. Brinkhof, Mathias Ko¨lliker and Heinz Richner

Multistate estimates of survival and movement in relation to colony size in the sociable weaver pp. 463-471

Charles R. Brown, Rita Covas, Mark D. Anderson and Mary Bomberger Brown

A genetic analysis of breeding success in the cooperative meerkat (Suricata suricatta) pp. 472-480

Ashleigh S. Griffin, Josephine M. Pemberton, Peter N. M. Brotherton, Grant McIlrath, David Gaynor, Ruth Kansky, Justin O'Riain and Timothy H. Clutton-Brock

Do male golden egg bugs carry eggs they have fertilized? A microsatellite analysis pp. 481-485

Wee Tek Tay, Minna Miettinen and Arja Kaitala

Breeding success in cooperative meerkats: effects of helper number and maternal state pp. 486-492

A. F. Russell, P. N. M. Brotherton, G. M. McIlrath, L. L. Sharpe and T. H. Clutton-Brock

Niche partitioning of two Palearctic passerine migrants with Afrotropical residents in their West African winter quarters pp. 493-502

Volker Salewski, Franz Bairlein and Bernd Leisler

Multiple sexual ornaments in satin bowerbirds: ultraviolet plumage and bowers signal different aspects of male quality pp. 503-509

Ste´phanie M. Doucet and Robert Montgomerie

Benefits of foundress associations in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus: increased productivity and survival, but no assurance of fitness returns pp. 510-514

Elizabeth A. Tibbetts and Hudson Kern Reeve

Assortative mating by multiple ornaments in northern cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) pp. 515-520

Jodie M. Jawor, Susan U. Linville, Sara M. Beall and Randall Breitwisch

No peace for estrous topi cows on leks pp. 521-525

Jakob Bro-Jørgensen

Courtship in long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae): function and evolution of signals pp. 526-530

Martin Zimmer, Olaf Diestelhorst and Klaus Lunau

Risky mate search and male self-sacrifice in redback spiders pp. 531-538

Maydianne C. B. Andrade

Variation in paternity in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus: no detectable influence of sperm numbers or sperm length pp. 539-545

Leigh W. Simmons, Julie Wernham, Francisco Garci´a-Gonza´lez and Dan Kamien

Advantages and disadvantages of large colony size in a halictid bee: the queen's perspective pp. 546-553

Erhard Strohm and Anita Bordon-Hauser

Multiple mating, paternity, and body size in a simultaneous hermaphrodite, Aplysia californica pp. 554-560

Lisa Angeloni, Jack W. Bradbury and Ronald S. Burton

The use of territorial gardening versus kleptoparasitism by a subtropical reef fish (Kyphosus cornelii) is influenced by territory defendability pp. 561-568

Ian M. Hamilton and Lawrence M. Dill

Testis size increases with colony size in cliff swallows pp. 569-575

Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown

Forcible eviction and prevention of recruitment in the clown anemonefish pp. 576-582

Peter Buston

The effect of intra- and interspecific aggression on patch residence time in Negev Desert gerbils: a competing risk analysis pp. 583-591

Ofer Ovadia and Heinrich zu Dohna

Volume 14, issue 3, 2003

Should young ever be better off with one parent than with two? pp. 301-310

John M. McNamara, Alasdair I. Houston, Zolta´n Barta and Jose´-Luis Osorno

Condition and coalition formation by brood-rearing common eider females pp. 311-317

Markus O¨st, Ron Ydenberg, Mikael Kilpi and Kai Lindstro¨m

Immune response covaries with corticosterone plasma levels under experimentally stressful conditions in nestling barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) pp. 318-325

Nicola Saino, Chiara Suffritti, Roberta Martinelli, Diego Rubolini and Anders Pape Møller

Female mate preferences and subsequent resistance to copulation in the mallard pp. 326-333

Emma J. A. Cunningham

Overriding the oddity effect in mixed-species aggregations: group choice by armored and nonarmored prey pp. 334-339

Alicia Mathis and Douglas P. Chivers

No evidence for differential maternal allocation to offspring in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) pp. 340-346

Je´re´my Mazuc, Olivier Chastel and Gabriele Sorci

Cape honeybees, Apis mellifera capensis, police worker-laid eggs despite the absence of relatedness benefits pp. 347-352

C. W. W. Pirk, P. Neumann and F. L. W. Ratnieks

Condition-dependent signaling affects male sexual attractiveness in field crickets, Gryllus campestris pp. 353-359

Barbara Holzer, Alain Jacot and Martin W.G. Brinkhof

Male share of provisioning is not influenced by actual or apparent loss of paternity in western bluebirds pp. 360-366

Janis L. Dickinson

Group fusion: the impact of winner, loser, and bystander effects on hierarchy formation in large groups pp. 367-373

Lee Alan Dugatkin and Ryan L. Earley

Effects of a low oxygen environment on parental effort and filial cannibalism in the male sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus pp. 374-381

Maria Lissåker, Charlotta Kvarnemo and Ola Svensson

Depigmented wing patch size is a condition-dependent indicator of viability in male collared flycatchers pp. 382-388

Ja´nos To¨ro¨k, Gergely Hegyi and La´szlo´ Zsolt Garamszegi

Sailfin molly females (Poecilia latipinna) copy the rejection of a male pp. 389-395

Klaudia Witte and Kirsten Ueding

Effects of breeding site density on competition and sexual selection in the European lobster pp. 396-402

Valerie J. Debuse, Julian T. Addison and John D. Reynolds

Male shrikes punish unfaithful females pp. 403-408

Francisco Valera, Herbert Hoi and Anton Krištín

Correlated evolution of herbivory and food chemical discrimination in iguanian and ambush foraging lizards pp. 409-416

William E. Cooper

When to bee social: interactions among environmental constraints, incentives, guarding, and relatedness in a facultatively social carpenter bee pp. 417-424

Tyler Dunn and Miriam H. Richards

Alternative reproductive strategies in the white-throated sparrow: behavioral and genetic evidence pp. 425-432

Elaina M. Tuttle

Empirical support for a despotic distribution in a California spotted owl population pp. 433-437

Guthrie S. Zimmerman, William S. LaHaye and R. J. Gutie´rrez

A survey of the statistical power of research in behavioral ecology and animal behavior pp. 438-445

Michael D. Jennions and Anders Pape Møller

Confidence intervals are a more useful complement to nonsignificant tests than are power calculations pp. 446-447

Nick Colegrave and Graeme D. Ruxton

Odds-playing and the timing of sex change in uncertain environments: you bet your wrasse pp. 447-450

Lock Rogers

Volume 14, issue 2, 2003

The behavioral ecology of a cognitive constraint: limited attention pp. 151-156

Colin W. Clark and Reuven Dukas

Facultative control of offspring sex in the cooperatively breeding bell miner, Manorina melanophrys pp. 157-164

John G. Ewen, Ross H. Crozier, Phillip Cassey, Tamsin Ward-Smith, Jodie N. Painter, Raleigh J. Robertson, David A. Jones and Michael F. Clarke

Seasonal and lifetime reproductive consequences of inbreeding in the great tit Parus major pp. 165-174

Tom Van de Casteele, Peter Galbusera, Tine Schenck and Erik Matthysen

Ectoparasitism in marsh tits: costs and functional explanations pp. 175-181

Jan-Å ke Nilsson

Asymmetric larval mobility and the evolutionary transition from siblicide to nonsiblicidal behavior in parasitoid wasps pp. 182-193

John J. Pexton, Daniel J. Rankin, Calvin Dytham and Peter J. Mayhew

Predator preference for brightly colored males in the guppy: a viability cost for a sexually selected trait pp. 194-200

Jean-Guy J. Godin and Heather E. McDonough

On the evolution of polygyny: a theoretical examination of the polygyny threshold model pp. 201-211

Susan E. Ptak and Michael Lachmann

Nestmate recognition in burying beetles: the "breeder's badge" as a cue used by females to distinguish their mates from male intruders pp. 212-220

Josef K. Mu¨ller, Anne-Katrin Eggert and Tobias Elsner

Phenotypic plasticity of larval retreat design in a net-spinning caddisfly pp. 221-226

Gordon R. Plague and J Vaun McArthur

Hatching asynchrony, nestling competition, and the cost of interspecific brood parasitism pp. 227-235

Mark E. Hauber

Linking foraging behavior to lifetime reproductive success for an insect parasitoid: adaptation to host distributions pp. 236-245

Matthijs Vos and Lia Hemerik

Nepotistic vigilance behavior in Siberian jay parents pp. 246-250

Michael Griesser

Behavioral shifts associated with reproduction in garter snakes pp. 251-256

R. Shine, B. Phillips, H. Waye and R. T. Mason

Predicting polygynous settlement while incorporating varying female competitive strength pp. 257-267

Gaute Bø Grønstøl, Ingvar Byrkjedal and Øyvind Fiksen

Male mating behavior and ejaculate expenditure under sperm competition risk in the eastern mosquitofish pp. 268-273

Jonathan P. Evans, Michele Pierotti and Andrea Pilastro

The cause of correlations between nightly numbers of male and female barking treefrogs (Hyla gratiosa) attending choruses pp. 274-281

Christopher G. Murphy

Avoiding a compromise between sexual selection and species recognition: female swordtail fish assess multiple species-specific cues pp. 282-287

Shala J. Hankison and Molly R. Morris

Effects of risk, cost, and their interaction on optimal escape by nonrefuging Bonaire whiptail lizards, Cnemidophorus murinus pp. 288-293

William E. Cooper, Valenti´n Pe´rez-Mellado, Teresa Baird, Troy A. Baird, Janalee P. Caldwell and Laurie J. Vitt

Social environment and reproductive interference affect reproductive success in the frog Rana latastei pp. 294-300

Attila Hettyey and Peter B. Pearman

Volume 14, issue 1, 2003

Letter from the Editors pp. 1-1

David F. Westneat, Andrew Bourke, Mark Elgar, Anne Houde, Ian Owens, Gunilla Rosenqvist and Marlene Zuk

Resource defense in a group-foraging context pp. 2-9

Fre´ de´rique Dubois, Luc-Alain Giraldeau and James W. A. Grant

Sex-specific differences in reindeer calf behavior and predation vulnerability pp. 10-15

Jon H. Mathisen, Arild Landa, Roy Andersen and Joseph L. Fox

Gape coloration reliably reflects immunocompetence of barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) nestlings pp. 16-22

Nicola Saino, Roberto Ambrosini, Roberta Martinelli, Paola Ninni and Anders Pape Møller

Evolutionarily stable kleptoparasitism: consequences of different prey types pp. 23-33

M. Broom and G. D. Ruxton

Extremely female-biased sex ratio and lethal male--male combat in a parasitoid wasp, Melittobia australica (Eulophidae) pp. 34-39

Jun Abe, Yoshitaka Kamimura, Natsuko Kondo and Masakazu Shimada

Do bacterial infections cause reduced ejaculate quality? A meta-analysis of antibiotic treatment of male infertility pp. 40-47

Philip A. Skau and Ivar Folstad

Experimental analysis of territory size in a population of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta pp. 48-53

Eldridge S. Adams

Live and let die: why fighter males of the ant Cardiocondyla kill each other but tolerate their winged rivals pp. 54-62

Carl Anderson, Sylvia Cremer and Ju¨rgen Heinze

Tests of the mate-guarding hypothesis for social monogamy: male snapping shrimp prefer to associate with high-value females pp. 63-67

Lauren M. Mathews

Male ornamentation, timing of breeding, and cost of polygyny in the collared flycatcher pp. 68-73

Anna Qvarnstro¨m, Ben C. Sheldon, Tomas Pa¨rt and Lars Gustafsson

Analysis of multiple aspects of a repeated signal: power and rate of rapping during shell fights in hermit crabs pp. 74-79

Mark Briffa, Robert W. Elwood and Jon M. Russ

Arms races between social parasites and their hosts: geographic patterns of manipulation and resistance pp. 80-88

Susanne Foitzik, Birgit Fischer and Ju¨rgen Heinze

Prolonged mate guarding and sperm competition in the weevil Diaprepes abbreviatus (L.) pp. 89-96

Ally R. Harari, Peter J. Landolt, Charles W. O'Brien and H. Jane Brockmann

Do energetic demands constrain incubation scheduling in a biparental species? pp. 97-102

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

Glow-worm larvae bioluminescence (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) operates as an aposematic signal upon toads (Bufo bufo) pp. 103-108

Raphae¨l De Cock and Erik Matthysen

The ideal free distribution when the resource is variable pp. 109-115

Hiroshi Hakoyama

The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters pp. 116-126

Eric Alden Smith, Rebecca Bliege Bird and Douglas W. Bird

Evolution of fighting behavior under asymmetric competition: an experimental test with juvenile salmonids pp. 127-134

Kyle A. Young

Female preference for male courtship flashes in Photinus ignitus fireflies pp. 135-140

Christopher K. Cratsley and Sara M. Lewis

Consistent mixing of near and distant resources in foraging bouts by the solitary mason bee Osmia lignaria pp. 141-149

Neal M. Williams and Vincent J. Tepedino