Behavioral Ecology

Article	Citations
Ineffective integration of multiple anti-predator defenses in a rotifer: a low-cost insurance?	73
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder	59
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	34
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	29
The effect of baculum shape and mating behavior on mating-induced prolactin release in female house mice	27
Contextual variations in calls of two nonoscine birds: the blue petrel Halobaena caerulea and the Antarctic prion Pachyptila desolata	25
Should I stay or should I go? Behavioral adjustments of fur seals related to foraging success	23
Corrigendum to: Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	22
An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	20
The value ofnottrusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk	20
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	19
Expression of Concern: Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp	19
Inter-sexual phenotypic divergence is correlated with habitat structure in an invasive lizard	19
Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation	19
Factors influencing dispersal initiation and timing in a facultative cooperative breeder	18
Within-flock heterogeneity in exploratory affects flock behaviour in a highly gregarious bird	18
Public information use—are invasive demersal fish species more effective than natives?	18
Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird	18
Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate	18
Silver spoons, reproduction, and growth catch-up in eastern Grey kangaroos	18
Crocodile social environments dictated by male philopatry	18
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers	17
Chronic predation risk affects prey escape abilities through behavioral and physiological changes	16
Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice	16
Red foxes avoid apex predation without increasing fear	15

Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect	15
Adult sex ratio and male body condition affect alternative reproductive tactics in a spider	15
A grander view of life that includes gametic processes: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	15
To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen	15
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	15
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime	14
Patterns of extra-territorial nest-box visits in a songbird suggest a role in extrapair mating	14
Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore	14
Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp	14
Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays	14
Predation risk elicits a negative relationship between boldness and growth in Helisoma snails	14
Social networks reveal sex- and age-patterned social structure in Butler’s gartersnakes (Thamnophis butleri)	14
A field experiment reveals reciprocal effects of host personality and parasitism in wild lizards	13
Perception and predation of ladybird spiders and other red-and-black arthropods by 3 predators	13
Housework or vigilance? Bilbies alter their burrowing activity under threat of predation by feral cats	13
The effect of heterospecific and conspecific competition on inter-individual differences in tungara frog tadpole (Engystomops pustulosus) behavior	13
Correction to: Does developmental environment affect sexual conflict? An experimental test in the seed beetle	13
Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator	12
Male mating tactics are associated with distinct female cognitive-behavioral profiles in 4 poeciliids	12
Whoever their partner, female blue tits breed the same	12
Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors	12
Considering birds to understand the interplay of MHC, microbiota, and odor: a comment on Schubert et al.	12
Expression of trematode-induced zombie-ant behavior is strongly associated with temperature	12
Exploring the effects of extreme polyandry on estimates of sexual selection and reproductive success	12
Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice	11
The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes	11
Efficiency of antlion trap design and larval behavior in capture success	11
A reinvestigation of cognitive styles in sticklebacks: decision success varies with behavioral type	11
The evolution of brood parasitism from host egg predation	11
Acoustic and visual stimuli combined promote stronger responses to aerial predation in fish	11
Female state and condition-dependent chemical signaling revealed by male choice of silk trails	11
Can I have fries with that? Context-dependent foraging behavior in urban and rural American crows	11
Not all who wander are lost: prospecting and settlement of male floaters in the spotless starling	11
An island bird community retains anti-predator behavior toward a locally extinct nest predator	10
Effects of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: is the web structure constrained by physiological trade-offs?	10
Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism	10
Grow up, be persistent, and stay focused: keys for solving foraging problems by free-ranging possums	10
Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals	10
Defensive coloration as a multivariate optimum: a comment on Postema et al	10
Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator	10
Multiple opportunities arise from multiple color defense strategies: a comment on Postema et al.	10
Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls	10
Complex adaptations in a multivariate trait: a comment on Caro et al.	10
Social signaling via coloration in large groups: a comment on Caro et al.	9
Light received by embryos promotes postnatal junior phenotypes in a seabird	9
Failed despots and the equitable distribution of fitness in a subsidized species	9
Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish	9
Flamingos as ecosystem engineers: flock size and foraging behaviors linked to nutrient availability	9
Mutual mate preferences and assortative mating in relation to a carotenoid-based color trait in blue tits	9
Olfactory cues of large carnivores modify red deer behavior and browsing intensity	9

Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	9
Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population	9
Correction to: Black and orange coloration predict success during male–male competition in the guppy	9
Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness	9
Understanding relationships among MHC, microbes, and odor: a comment on Schubert et al.	9
Foraging in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in movement patterns of a tropical sand-bubbler crab	9
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments	9
Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird	9
Temporal dissonance between group size and its benefits requires whole-of-lifecycle measurements	9
Clutch attendance and call parameters are linked to mating success in a glassfrog with paternal care	9
Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient	8
Correction to: Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird	8
Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in 
post-war Finland	8
Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history	8
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather	8
Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources	8
Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with sperm aggregate quality in Peromyscus mice	8
Sex allocation is color morph-specific and associated with fledging condition in a wild bird	8
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor	8
Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths	8
Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire	8
Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite	8
Social and spatial conflict drive resident aggression toward outsiders in a group-living fish	8
Female mate preferences do not predict male sexual signals across populations	8
Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output	7
Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care	7
Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	7
Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator	7
Habitat change alters the expression and efficiency of a female ornament	7
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	7
Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population	7
Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al	7
Social insect colonies are more likely to accept unrelated queens when they come with workers	7
Social network position predicts male mating success in a small passerine	7
Common cuckoos do not mimic the size and shape of host eggs	7
Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish	7
Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes	7
Acoustic effects complement visual displays of Great Bowerbird bowers	7
Multiple constraints on urban bird communication: both abiotic and biotic noise shape songs in cities	7
MHC mediates social odor via microbiota—it cannot work: a comment on Schubert et al.	7
Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider	7
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation	7
Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness	7
The definition of sexual selection	7
Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters	7
Effects of chronic and acute predation risk on sexual ornamentation and mating preferences	7
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	6
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage	6
Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species	6
No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion	6
Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. (2022)	6
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite	6
Functionally redundant multimodal predator cues elicit changes in prey foraging behavior	6
Habitat complexity and complex signal function – exploring the role of ornamentation	6
Habitat disturbance alters color contrast and the detectability of cryptic and aposematic frogs	6
Size-dependent aggression towards kin in a cannibalistic species	6
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	6
Perceived risk structures the space use of competing carnivores	6
Studying the colors of monkeys: a comment on Caro et al.	6
Reduced fitness of secondary females in a polygynous species: a 32-yr study of Savannah sparrows	6
Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience	6
Condition- and context-dependent alternative reproductive tactic in Drosophila prolongata	6
Does losing reduce the tendency to engage with rivals to reach mates? An experimental test	6
Golden mimics use multiple defenses to counter generalist and specialist predators	6
When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color	6
Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time	6
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations	6
Song varies with latitude, climate, and species richness in a Neotropical bird	6
Sex differences, sexual selection, and gamete size: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	6
Sexual selection: competition for resources provided by mating partners	6
Nestling mouth colors mediate parental favoritism but do not influence detectability	6
Cadmium does not affect post-hatching maternal care or early offspring development in earwigs	6
Chemical footprints mediate habitat selection in co-occurring aphids	6
Effects of inbreeding and elevated rearing temperatures on strategic sperm investment	5
Modeling effects of habitat structure on intraguild predation frequency and spatial coexistence between jaguars and ocelots	5
Age interactions influence biparental care behavior and reproductive success	5
Egg mimicry, not the sight of a common cuckoo, is the cue for parasitic egg rejection	5
Ecological adaptation and birdsong: how body and bill sizes affect passerine sound frequencies	5
Heterogeneity in resource competition covaries with individual variation in long-term social relationships	5
Obituary: Staffan Ulfstrand	5

Patch quality and habitat fragmentation shape the foraging patterns of a specialist folivore	5
Nonreproductive division of labor in staghorn ferns	5
The complex interplay between male and female mating history: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	5
Sexual selection does not drive hindwing tail elaboration in a moon moth,Actias luna	5
Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras	5
Dissecting how behavior and environment shape spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	5
Hiding among colors: background color diversity impedes detection time	5
Social status does not predict in-camp integration among egalitarian hunter-gatherer men	5
White-tailed deer responses to acoustic predator cues are contingent upon past land use and contemporary fire regime	5
Males benefit personally from family life: evidence from a wild burying beetle population	5
MHC-II distance between parents predicts sex allocation decisions in a genetically monogamous bird	5
The habitat connectivity hypothesis of escape in urban woodland birds	5
Reproduction is driven by seasonal environmental variation in an equatorial mammal, the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo)	5
Structural equation modeling reveals determinants of fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird	5
Individuals with larger head volume have better learning ability in wild chestnut thrushes	5
A Bayesian optimal escape model reveals bird species differ in their capacity to habituate to humans	5
Are weapon allometries steeper in major or minor males? A meta-analysis	4
Sexual selection and species recognition promote complex male courtship displays in ungulates	4
Condition-transfer maternal effects modulate inter-locus sexual conflict	4
Dazzled by shine: gloss as an antipredator strategy in fast moving prey	4
Kin do not always help: testing multiple hypotheses on nest feeding in a cooperatively breeding bird	4
Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates	4
Short-term increases in rival number improves single mating productivity in male Drosophila	4
Group intrusions by a brood parasitic fish are not cooperative	4
The definition of sexual selection: a response to comments on Shuker and Kvarnemo	4
Background selection for camouflage shifts in accordance with color change in an intertidal prawn	4
The optimal time to approach an unfamiliar object: a Bayesian model	4
Flash behaviors protect prey from avian predators	4
Promise and prospects in primate pelage research: a comment on Caro et al.	4
Negotiations over parental care: a test of alternative hypotheses in the clown anemonefish	4
The development of spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	4
Passive and active parental food allocation in a songbird	4
Wild zebra finches are attracted towards acoustic cues from conspecific social groups	4
Foraging is prioritized over nestmate rescue in desert ants and pupae are rescued more than adults	4
Maximum performance expression is affected by octopamine and antennae removal in Acheta domesticus	4
Family dynamics reveal that female house mice preferentially breed in their maternal community	4
The role of behavioral type composition on resource use and growth of a juvenile predator	4
Which plumage patches provide information about condition and success in a female fairy-wren?	4
Moonlight influence on quality of nestlings of scops owls depends on paternal coloration	4
The risk of brood parasitism does not affect levels of extrapair paternity in a cuckoo host	4
Anuran mating systems: the role of climate, life history traits, and sex ratio	4
The devil is in the details: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	4
No evidence of adaptive tolerance of parasitism in a cavity-nesting brood parasite host	4
Breeding site fidelity is lower in polygamous shorebirds and male-biased in monogamous species	4
A deep dive into MHC-related odors: a comment on Schubert et al.	4
Age, but not an immune challenge, triggers terminal investment in the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus	4
Short-term heat waves have long-term consequences for parents and offspring in stickleback	4
Interaction between anthropogenic stressors affects antipredator defense in an intertidal crustacean	4
Cooperative breeding in birds increases the within-year fecundity mean without increasing the variance: A potential mechanism to buffer environmental uncertainty	4
Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators?	4
Exposure to elevated temperature during development affects bumblebee foraging behavior	4
Helpers don’t help when it’s hot in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Southern Pied Babbler	4
Body mass dynamics of migratory nightjars are explained by individual turnover and fueling	4
How molting locusts avoid cannibalism	3
Warm-up and metrics of song performance: a commentary on Vazquez-Cardona et al.	3
Natural and anthropogenic noise increase vigilance and decrease foraging behaviors in song sparrows	3
Female mating status has been overlooked in mate choice research: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	3
Male courtship reduces the risk of female aggression in web-building spiders but varies in structure	3
The scent of offspring: chemical profiles of larvae change during development and affect parental behavior in a burying beetle	3
Multiple effects of weather on common waxbill group foraging and social behavior	3
Short-term social dynamics following anthropogenic and natural disturbances in a free-living mammal	3
Dehydrated males are less likely to dive into the mating pool	3
On the strategic learning of signal associations	3
Varied female and male courtship behavior facilitated the evolution of a novel sexual signal	3
Life-history trade-offs, density, lay date—not personality—explain multibroodedness in great tits	3
Vocal performance increases rapidly during the dawn chorus in Adelaide’s warbler (Setophaga adelaidae)	3
The matador bug’s elaborate flags deter avian predators	3
Don’t Leave the Past Behind: Larval Experience Shapes Pupal Antipredator Response in Aedes aegypti	3
A quantitative genetics approach to validate lab- versus field-based behavior in novel environments	3
Correction to: Social context alters host behavior and infection risk	3
Social drivers of maturation age in female geladas	3
Discovery-defense strategy as a mechanism of social foraging of ants in tropical rainforest canopies	3
Daily activity is repeatable but varies across the breeding season in female great tits	3
Allo-preening is linked to vocal signature development in a wild parrot	3
Sex-specific manipulation of sexually cannibalistic mantid mating behavior by hairworms	3
Influence of visual information on sniffing behavior in a routinely trichromatic primate	3
Tackling complexity in animal color research: a response to comments on Postema et al.	3
The size of a smell: assessment of rival’s relative size from femoral secretions in the common wall lizards,Podarcis muralis(Laurenti, 1768)	3
Anthropogenic noise and light alter temporal but not spatial breeding behavior in a wild frog	3
Altitudinal differences in foraging decisions under predation risk in great tits	3
How does viewing angle affect the perceived accuracy of Batesian mimicry in hoverflies?	3
Dominance loss and tenure maintenance in Kalahari meerkats	3
Optimal distributions of central-place foragers: honey bee foraging in a mass flowering crop	3
The ontogeny of social networks in wild great tits (Parus major)	3
Can recent evolutionary history promote resilience to environmental change?	3
Changes in the acoustic structure of Australian bird communities along a habitat complexity gradient	3
Animal personalities influence male mating behavior and reproductive fitness	3
Molecular sibship reconstruction reveals a promiscuous mating system in brood parasitic little bronze-cuckoos (Chalcites minutillus)	3
Escalated begging does not compromise nestling health	3
Perturbations highlight importance of social history in parakeet rank dynamics	3
Natural noise affects conspecific signal detection and territorial defense behaviors in songbirds	3
Female song can be over-looked in even the most intensively studied songbirds	3
Individual survival is dictated by group personality in a marsh ecosystem predator–prey interaction	3
Spontaneous quantity discrimination in the Australian sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa)	3
Assumptions, models and data: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	3