Behavioral Ecology

2002 - 2025

Current editor(s): Louise Barrett

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Volume 13, issue 6, 2002

Great tits (Parus major) reduce body mass in response to wing area reduction: a field experiment pp. 725-727

Joan Carles Senar, Jordi Domènech and Francesc Uribe

Structural coloration and sexual selection in the barn swallow Hirundo rustica pp. 728-736

Claire Perrier, Florentino de Lope, Anders P. Møller and Paola Ninni

Individual color variation and male quality in pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca): a role of ultraviolet reflectance pp. 737-741

Heli Siitari and Esa Huhta

Phenotypic selection and function of reproductive behavior in the subsocial bug Elasmucha putoni (Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae) pp. 742-749

Shin-ichi Kudo

Male tactics and reproductive success in the harem polygynous bat Saccopteryx bilineata pp. 750-756

Gerald Heckel and Otto von Helversen

Bees in two-armed bandit situations: foraging choices and possible decision mechanisms pp. 757-765

Tamar Keasar, Ella Rashkovich, Dan Cohen and Avi Shmida

Effects of feeding time constraints on body mass regulation and energy expenditure in wintering dunlin (Calidris alpina) pp. 766-775

John P. Kelly and Wesley W. Weathers

Self-organized asymmetries in ant foraging: a functional response to food type and colony needs pp. 776-781

Stéphane Portha, Jean-Louis Deneubourg and Claire Detrain

Feeding experience and relative size modify the begging strategies of nestlings pp. 782-785

Miguel A. Rodríguez-Gironés, Jesús Martín Zúñiga and Tomás Redondo

Kin clustering in barnacle geese: familiarity or phenotype matching? pp. 786-790

Henk P. van der Jeugd, Ineke T. van der Veen and Kjell Larsson

Sexual selection and condition dependence of courtship display in three species of horned dung beetles pp. 791-799

Janne S. Kotiaho

Genetic analysis of the mating system and opportunity for sexual selection in northern water snakes (Nerodia sipedon) pp. 800-807

Melanie R. Prosser, Patrick J. Weatherhead, H. Lisle Gibbs and Gregory P. Brown

Male reproductive success and sexual selection in northern water snakes determined by microsatellite DNA analysis pp. 808-815

Patrick J. Weatherhead, Melanie R. Prosser, H. Lisle Gibbs and Gregory P. Brown

Stage-specific manipulation of a mosquito's host-seeking behavior by the malaria parasite Plasmodium gallinaceum pp. 816-820

Jacob C. Koella, Linda Rieu and Richard E. L. Paul

The evolution of imperfect mimicry pp. 821-826

Thomas N. Sherratt

Inhibition of optimal behavior by social transmission in the guppy depends on shoaling pp. 827-831

Lucy Bates and Jackie Chappell

Congruence between the sexes in preexisting receiver responses pp. 832-837

Alexandra L. Basolo

Model parents: is full compensation for reduced partner nest attendance compatible with stable biparental care? pp. 838-843

Katherine M. Jones, Graeme D. Ruxton and Pat Monaghan

Habitat structure and alarm call dialects in Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni) pp. 844-850

Bianca S. Perla and C. N. Slobodchikoff

Volume 13, issue 5, 2002

Evolution of group size in the dolphins and porpoises: interspecific consistency of intraspecific patterns pp. 583-590

Lorenz Gygax

Paternal care as a conditional strategy: distinct reproductive tactics associated with elaboration of plumage ornamentation in the house finch pp. 591-597

Alexander V. Badyaev and Geoffrey E. Hill

Death comes suddenly to the unprepared: singing crickets, call fragmentation, and parasitoid flies pp. 598-606

Pie Müller and Daniel Robert

Reduced reproductive effort in male field crickets infested with parasitoid fly larvae pp. 607-614

Gita R. Kolluru, Marlene Zuk and Mark A. Chappell

Sexual selection in the wolf spider Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata: female preference for drum duration and pulse rate pp. 615-621

Silja Parri, Rauno V. Alatalo, Janne S. Kotiaho, Johanna Mappes and Ana Rivero

Carotenoid status signaling in captive and wild red-collared widowbirds: independent effects of badge size and color pp. 622-631

Sarah R. Pryke, Staffan Andersson, Michael J. Lawes and Steven E. Piper

A life-history perspective on strategic mating effort in male scorpionflies pp. 632-636

Leif Engqvist and Klaus Peter Sauer

Female begging in European robins: do neighbors eavesdrop for extrapair copulations? pp. 637-642

Joe A. Tobias and Nathalie Seddon

Male bimaturism and reproductive success in Sumatran orang-utans pp. 643-652

Sri Suci Utami, Benoit Goossens, Michael W. Bruford, Jan R. de Ruiter and Jan A.R.A.M. van Hooff

Adaptive biases in offspring sex ratios established before birth in a marsupial, the common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula pp. 653-656

Christopher N. Johnson and Euan G. Ritchie

Isolation from mammalian predators differentially affects two congeners pp. 657-663

Daniel T. Blumstein and Janice C. Daniel

Conditional strategies in territorial defense: do Carolina wrens play tit-for-tat? pp. 664-669

Jeremy Hyman

Increased cuckoldry as a cost of breeding late for male house wrens (Troglodytes aedon) pp. 670-675

L. Scott Johnson, Bonnie G. Hicks and Brian S. Masters

Resource attractiveness of the male beaugregory damselfish and his decision to court or defend pp. 676-681

Nick Santangelo, M. Itzkowitz, Martin Richter and Michael P. Haley

Nonlocal male mountain white-crowned sparrows have lower paternity and higher parasite loads than males singing local dialect pp. 682-689

Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton, Elizabeth P. Derryberry and Thomas P. Hahn

Siblicide and life-history evolution in parasitoids pp. 690-695

John J. Pexton and Peter J. Mayhew

Daily body mass regulation in dominance-structured coal tit (Parus ater) flocks in response to variable food access: a laboratory study pp. 696-704

Vicente Polo and Luis Miguel Bautista

A state-based model of sperm allocation in a group-breeding salamander pp. 705-712

W. Edwin Harris and Jeffrey R. Lucas

Biparental care in house sparrows: negotiation or sealed bid? pp. 713-721

P. L. Schwagmeyer, Douglas W. Mock and Geoffrey A. Parker

Volume 13, issue 4, 2002

Individual variation in risk taking: the effect of a predatory threat on fighting behavior in Nannacara anomala pp. 439-442

Olle Brick and Sven Jakobsson

Experimental manipulation of maternal effort produces differential effects in sons and daughters: implications for adaptive sex ratios in the blue-footed booby pp. 443-449

Alberto Velando

Monandry and polyandry as alternative lifestyles in a butterfly pp. 450-455

Nina Wedell, Christer Wiklund and Penny A. Cook

Butterfly contests and flight physiology: why do older males fight harder? pp. 456-461

Darrell J. Kemp

Winning and losing: causes for variability in outcome of fights in male Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) pp. 462-466

Daniel Renison, Dee Boersma and Mónica B. Martella

Previous agonistic experience determines both foraging behavior and territoriality in the limpet Lottia gigantea (Sowerby) pp. 467-471

Alan L. Shanks

Mate sampling by female barking treefrogs (Hyla gratiosa) pp. 472-480

Christopher G. Murphy and H. Carl Gerhardt

Hair-trigger autotomy in porcelain crabs is a highly effective escape strategy pp. 481-486

Kerstin Wasson, Bruce E. Lyon and Matthew Knope

Facultative development of courtship and communication in juvenile male cowbirds (Molothrus ater) pp. 487-496

David J. White, Andrew P. King and Meredith J. West

Measuring the benefit of habitat selection pp. 497-502

Zvika Abramsky, Michael L. Rosenzweig and Aziz Subach

Egg sex ratio and paternal traits: using within-individual comparisons pp. 503-510

Kate R. Oddie and Constanze Reim

Male traits under cryptic female choice in the spotted cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) pp. 511-518

Douglas W. Tallamy, Bradford E. Powell and Julie A. McClafferty

The evolution of soldier reproduction in social thrips pp. 519-525

Thomas W. Chapman, Brenda D. Kranz, Kristi-Lee Bejah, David C. Morris, Michael P. Schwarz and Bernard J. Crespi

A test of the risk allocation hypothesis: tadpole responses to temporal change in predation risk pp. 526-530

Josh Van Buskirk, Corsin Müller, Andreas Portmann and Martin Surbeck

Reproduction in foundress associations of the social wasp, Polistes carolina: conventions, competition, and skew pp. 531-542

Perttu Seppä, David C. Queller and Joan E. Strassmann

Sources of variation in breeding-ground fidelity of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) pp. 543-550

Paul F. Doherty, James D. Nichols, John Tautin, James F. Voelzer, Graham W. Smith, Douglas S. Benning, V. Ray Bentley, John K. Bidwell, Karen S. Bollinger, Arthur R. Brazda, Elizabeth K. Buelna, James R. Goldsberry, Rodney J. King, Fred H. Roetker, John W. Solberg, Philip P. Thorpe and James S. Wortham

Size-dependent predation by snakes: selective foraging or differential prey vulnerability? pp. 551-560

Sharon J. Downes

Maintenance of androdioecy in the freshwater shrimp Eulimnadia texana: sexual encounter rates and outcrossing success pp. 561-570

Vicky G. Hollenbeck, Stephen C. Weeks, William R. Gould and Naida Zucker

Efficiency as a foraging currency in animals attaining a gain below the energetic ceiling pp. 571-574

Bart A. Nolet

Impaired flight ability--a cost of reproduction in female blue tits pp. 575-579

Cecilia Kullberg, David C. Houston and Neil B. Metcalfe

On hotshots and lotteries: are the best males on larger leks better than expected? pp. 580-581

Peter A. Bednekoff

Volume 13, issue 3, 2002

The evolution of parental and alloparental effort in cooperatively breeding groups: when should helpers pay to stay? pp. 291-300

Hanna Kokko, Rufus A. Johnstone and J. Wright

Predation and the evolution of prey behavior: an experiment with tree hole mosquitoes pp. 301-311

Steven A. Juliano and Marc E. Gravel

Subspecies recognition in the house mouse: a study of two populations from the border of a hybrid zone pp. 312-320

Carole Smadja and Guila Ganem

A game theoretical approach to conspecific brood parasitism pp. 321-327

M. Broom and G. D. Ruxton

Dispersal strategies in Tasmanian native hens (Gallinula mortierii) pp. 328-336

Anne W. Goldizen, David A. Putland and Kelly A. Robertson

Protandry models and their application to salmon pp. 337-343

Yolanda E. Morbey

Female calls in lek-mating birds: indirect mate choice, female competition for mates, or direct mate choice? pp. 344-352

Stein Are Sæther

The costs of copulating in the dung fly Sepsis cynipsea pp. 353-358

Wolf U. Blanckenhorn, David J. Hosken, Oliver Y. Martin, Constanze Reim, Yvonne Teuschl and Paul I. Ward

The costs of avoiding matings in the dung fly Sepsis cynipsea pp. 359-365

Claudia Mühlhäuser and Wolf U. Blanckenhorn

Sexual selection for structure building by courting male fiddler crabs: an experimental study of behavioral mechanisms pp. 366-374

John H. Christy, Patricia R. Y. Backwell, Seiji Goshima and Thomas Kreuter

Female greater wax moths reduce sexual display behavior in relation to the potential risk of predation by echolocating bats pp. 375-380

Gareth Jones, Anna Barabas, Wendy Elliott and Stuart Parsons

Use of California bay foliage by wood rats for possible fumigation of nest-borne ectoparasites pp. 381-385

Richard B. Hemmes, Arlene Alvarado and Benjamin L. Hart

Fitness costs and benefits of antipredator behavior mediated by chemotactile cues in the wolf spider Pardosa milvina (Araneae: Lycosidae) pp. 386-392

Matthew H. Persons, Sean E. Walker and Ann L. Rypstra

Food sharing: a model of manipulation by harassment pp. 393-400

Jeffrey R. Stevens and David W. Stephens

Differential effects of a parasite on ornamental structures based on melanins and carotenoids pp. 401-407

Patrick S. Fitze and Heinz Richner

Reproductive skew, costs, and benefits of cooperative breeding in female wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) pp. 408-418

Gabriele Gerlach and Susann Bartmann

Body size and sex allocation in simultaneously hermaphroditic animals pp. 419-426

Lisa Angeloni, Jack W. Bradbury and Eric L. Charnov

Temporal partitioning and aggression among foragers: modeling the effects of stochasticity and individual state pp. 427-438

Shane A. Richards

Volume 13, issue 2, 2002

Female preference function related to precedence effect in an amphibian anuran (Alytes cisternasii): tests with non-overlapping calls pp. 149-153

Jaime Bosch and Rafael Márquez

Specialized predation on plataspid heteropterans in a coccinellid beetle: adaptive behavior and responses of prey attended or not by ants pp. 154-159

A. Dejean, J. Orivel and M. Gibernau

Colony defense in Damaraland mole-rats, Cryptomys damarensis pp. 160-162

Rosie Cooney

The spatial habitat structure of host populations explains the pattern of rejection behavior in hosts and parasitic adaptations in cuckoos pp. 163-168

Eivin Røskaft, Arne Moksnes, Bård G. Stokke, Csaba Moskát and Marcel Honza

Immune response of male barn swallows in relation to parental effort, corticosterone plasma levels, and sexual ornamentation pp. 169-174

Nicola Saino, Michele Incagli, Roberta Martinelli and Anders Pape Møller

Population differences in female resource abundance, adult sex ratio, and male mating success in Dendrobates pumilio pp. 175-181

Heike Pröhl

The influence of habitat on travel speed, intermittent locomotion, and vigilance in a diurnal rodent pp. 182-187

Rodrigo A. Vásquez, Luis A. Ebensperger and Francisco Bozinovic

Does paternity or paternal investment determine the level of paternal care and does female choice explain egg stealing in the fifteen-spined stickleback? pp. 188-192

Sara Östlund-Nilsson

Reproductive skew among males in a female-dominated mammalian society pp. 193-200

Anne L. Engh, Stephan M. Funk, Russell C. Van Horn, Kim T. Scribner, Michael W. Bruford, Scot Libants, Micaela Szykman, Laura Smale and Kay E. Holekamp

Mating system structure and population density in a polygynous lizard, Sauromalus obesus (= ater) pp. 201-208

Matthew A. Kwiatkowski and Brian K. Sullivan

High frequency of polyandry in a lek mating system pp. 209-215

David B. Lank, Constance M. Smith, Olivier Hanotte, Arvo Ohtonen, Simon Bailey and Terry Burke

Prey size, prey nutrition, and food handling by shrews of different body sizes pp. 216-223

Leszek Rychlik and Elżbieta Jancewicz

Waste management in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica pp. 224-231

Adam G. Hart and Francis L. W. Ratnieks

An experimental approach to altering mating tactics in male horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) pp. 232-238

H. Jane Brockmann

Intracolonial patterns of reproduction in the queen-size dimorphic ant Leptothorax rugatulus pp. 239-247

Olav Rüppell, Jürgen Heinze and Bert Hölldobler

Condition dependence, multiple sexual signals, and immunocompetence in peacocks pp. 248-253

Anders Pape Møller and Marion Petrie

Size-dependent discrimination of mating partners in the simultaneous hermaphroditic cestode Schistocephalus solidus pp. 254-259

Annelis Lüscher and Claus Wedekind

Kleptoparasitism and the distribution of unequal competitors pp. 260-267

Ian M. Hamilton

Features of begging calls reveal general condition and need of food of barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) nestlings pp. 268-273

Roberto Sacchi, Nicola Saino and Paolo Galeotti

Clutch size variation in the Nazca booby: a test of the egg quality hypothesis pp. 274-279

L. D. Clifford and D. J. Anderson

Alternative forms of competition and predation dramatically affect habitat selection under foraging--predation-risk trade-offs pp. 280-290

Tamara C. Grand

Volume 13, issue 1, 2002

Phylogeny, specialization, and brood parasite--host coevolution: some possible pitfalls of parsimony pp. 1-10

Stephen I. Rothstein and Michael A. Patten

Ultraviolet vision and mate choice in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) pp. 11-19

Elizabeth J. Smith, Julian C. Partridge, Katharine N. Parsons, Elizabeth M. White, Innes C. Cuthill and Andrew T. D. Bennett

Small pack size imposes a trade-off between hunting and pup-guarding in the painted hunting dog Lycaon pictus pp. 20-27

Franck Courchamp and Gregory S. A. Rasmussen

Lack of inbreeding avoidance in the Argentine ant Linepithema humile pp. 28-31

Laurent Keller

The kinds of traits involved in male--male competition: a comparison of plumage, behavior, and body size in quail pp. 32-41

Julie C. Hagelin

Can information sharing explain recruitment to food from communal roosts? pp. 42-51

Sasha R. X. Dall

The cost of parental care: prey hunting in a digger wasp pp. 52-58

Erhard Strohm

Color patterns and species recognition in four closely related species of Lake Malawi cichlid pp. 59-64

Vanessa C. K. Couldridge

The development of coordinated singing in cooperatively displaying long-tailed manakins pp. 65-69

Jill M. Trainer and David B. McDonald

Flexible oviposition behavior in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata) and its implications for offspring survival pp. 70-74

Piedad Reguera

Modeling spawning strategy for sex change under social control in haremic angelfishes pp. 75-82

Yuka Hamaguchi, Yoichi Sakai and Fugo Takasu

Mate sampling and the sexual conflict over mating in seaweed flies pp. 83-86

David M. Shuker

Reduction of maternal care: a new benefit of multiple mating? pp. 87-93

Shou-Hsien Li

Asset protection in juvenile salmon: how adding biological realism changes a dynamic foraging model pp. 94-100

Ulrich G. Reinhardt

Comparative manipulation of predation risk in incubating birds reveals variability in the plasticity of responses pp. 101-108

Cameron K. Ghalambor

Territorial male bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) do not assess fighting ability based on size-related variation in acoustic signals pp. 109-124

Mark A. Bee

Antipredator defense as a limited resource: unequal predation risk in broods of an insect with maternal care pp. 125-133

Reginald B. Cocroft

Sociality in river otters: cooperative foraging or reproductive strategies? pp. 134-141

Gail M. Blundell and Merav Ben-David

Delayed juvenile dispersal benefits both mother and offspring in the cooperative spider Anelosimus studiosus (Araneae: Theridiidae) pp. 142-148

Thomas C. Jones