Behavioral Ecology

Article	Citations
The definition of sexual selection	51
Spatial personalities: a meta-analysis of consistent individual differences in spatial behavior	37
Context-dependent trait covariances: how plasticity shapes behavioral syndromes	33
Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance	27
Task syndromes: linking personality and task allocation in social animal groups	26
The evolution of primate coloration revisited	25
Olfactory cues of large carnivores modify red deer behavior and browsing intensity	22
Color under pressure: how multiple factors shape defensive coloration	21
Fire-driven behavioral response to smoke in a Mediterranean lizard	19
Anthropogenic noise disrupts mate choice behaviors in femaleGryllus bimaculatus	19
Predation risk increases intraspecific heterogeneity in white-tailed deer diel activity patterns	18
Exposure to elevated temperature during development affects bumblebee foraging behavior	18
An evolutionary model of sensitive periods when the reliability of cues varies across ontogeny	17
Multiple factors affect the evolution of repertoire size across birds	16
Acoustic and visual stimuli combined promote stronger responses to aerial predation in fish	16
A meta-analysis of the group-size effect on vigilance in mammals	16
Female ornaments: is red skin color attractive to males and related to condition in rhesus macaques?	16
Offspring desertion with care? Chick mortality and plastic female desertion in Snowy Plovers	16
Social network position predicts male mating success in a small passerine	16
Sex-specific contributions to nest building in birds	15
Fast food in the city? Nomadic flying-foxes commute less and hang around for longer in urban areas	15
Sexual selection maintains a female-specific character in a species with dynamic sex roles	15
Fine-scale habitat selection limits trade-offs between foraging and temperature in a grassland bird	14
How can the MHC mediate social odor via the microbiota community? A deep dive into mechanisms	14
Artificial light at night alters activity, body mass, and corticosterone level in a tropical anuran	14

Red foxes avoid apex predation without increasing fear	14
Context-dependent group size: effects of population density, habitat, and season	14
Wolves choose ambushing locations to counter and capitalize on the sensory abilities of their prey	14
A quantitative genetics approach to validate lab- versus field-based behavior in novel environments	13
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	13
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	13
Once an optimist, always an optimist? Studying cognitive judgment bias in mice	13
No sex differences in learning in wild bumblebees	13
Natural noise affects conspecific signal detection and territorial defense behaviors in songbirds	13
Optimal distributions of central-place foragers: honey bee foraging in a mass flowering crop	13
Hierarchy of fear: experimentally testing ungulate reactions to lion, African wild dog and cheetah	13
Sexual selection on jumping spider color pattern: investigation with a new quantitative approach	13
Habitat features and colony characteristics influencing ant personality and its fitness consequences	12
Pathways linking female personality with reproductive success are trait- and year-specific	12
Zebra finch song is a very short-range signal in the wild: evidence from an integrated approach	12
Unlike a virgin: a meta-analytical review of female mating status in studies of female mate choice	12
Sex differences in the predictability of risk-taking behavior	12
Early life experience influences dispersal in coyotes (Canis latrans)	12
Call combinations in chimpanzees: a social tool?	12
Cohort consequences of drought and family disruption for male and female African elephants	12
Monks relax sibling competition over parental resources in Tibetan populations	11
What is cultural evolution anyway?	11
Direct and indirect effects of high temperatures on fledging in a cooperatively breeding bird	11
Breeding site fidelity is lower in polygamous shorebirds and male-biased in monogamous species	11
Ecological adaptation and birdsong: how body and bill sizes affect passerine sound frequencies	11
Behavioral variation in natural contests: integrating plasticity and personality	11
Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator	11
Predation risk shapes the use of conflicting personal risk and social safety information in guppies	11
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	11
Daily protein prioritization and long-term nutrient balancing in a dietary generalist, the blue monkey	10
The effect of individual state on the strength of mate choice in females and males	10
Spontaneous quantity discrimination in a family-living lizard	10
Antipredator responses toward cat fur in wild brown rats tested in a semi-natural environment	10
The interaction between ambush predators, search patterns of herbivores, and aggregations of plants	10
Familiarity, dominance, sex and season shape common waxbill social networks	10
Density-dependent individual variation in male attractiveness in a wild field cricket	10
Kinship does not predict the structure of a shark social network	10
Display site selection in a ground dwelling bird: the importance of viewshed	9
Discoid decorations function to shield juvenile Argiope spiders from avian predator attacks	9
Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	9
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	9
Nocturnal foraging lifts time constraints in winter for migratory geese but hardly speeds up fueling	9
Male–male contest limits the expression of assortative mate preferences in a polymorphic poison frog	9
Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras	9
Higher ultraviolet skin reflectance signals submissiveness in the anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos	9
Social and physical environment independently affect oviposition decisions inDrosophila	9
Natural and anthropogenic noise increase vigilance and decrease foraging behaviors in song sparrows	9
The nature of privilege: intergenerational wealth in animal societies	9
Aerial attack strategies of hawks hunting bats, and the adaptive benefits of swarming	9
Migration dynamics of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in western Hudson Bay	9

Anthropogenic noise alters parental behavior and nestling developmental patterns, but not fledging condition	9
Wild zebra finches are attracted towards acoustic cues from conspecific social groups	8
Size-dependent aggression towards kin in a cannibalistic species	8
The conspecific avoidance strategies of adult female-calf humpback whales	8
Heterogenous effects of father and mother age on offspring development	8
Genetic inference of the mating system of free-ranging domestic dogs	8
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	8
The functional role of sibling aggression and “best of a bad job” strategies in cichlid juveniles	8
Males benefit personally from family life: evidence from a wild burying beetle population	8
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	8
Photoperiod and rainfall are associated with seasonal shifts in social structure in a songbird	8
Experimental shelter-switching shows shelter type alters predation on caterpillars (Hesperiidae)	8
Reproductive state influences the degree of risk tolerance for a seasonally breeding mesopredator	8
Population differences in the effect of context on personality in an invasive lizard	8
Multiple constraints on urban bird communication: both abiotic and biotic noise shape songs in cities	8
Smart mating: the cognitive ability of females influences their preference for male cognitive ability	8
Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species	8
Separate and combined effects of boat noise and a live crab predator on mussel valve gape behavior	8
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	8
Habitat disturbance alters color contrast and the detectability of cryptic and aposematic frogs	8
Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals	8
Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore	8
Choice of nest attributes as a frontline defense against brood parasitism	8
Silence is sexy: soundscape complexity alters mate choice in túngara frogs	8
Condition- and context-dependent alternative reproductive tactic in Drosophila prolongata	7
Song type and song type matching are important for joint territorial defense in a duetting songbird	7
Social partners and temperature jointly affect morning foraging activity of small birds in winter	7
Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire	7
Ecology of fear and its effect on seed dispersal by a neotropical rodent	7
Shoaling in the Trinidadian guppy: costs, benefits, and plasticity in response to an ambush predator	7
Damage from intraspecific combat is costly	7
Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure	7
Evidence for morph-specific substrate choice in a green-brown polymorphic grasshopper	7
Increased male mating success in the presence of prey and rivals in a sexually cannibalistic mantis	7
Drivers of alloparental provisioning of fledglings in a colonially breeding bird	7
Determinants of offspring sex in kangaroos: a test of multiple hypotheses	7
Does brain size affect mate choice? An experimental examination in pygmy halfbeaks	7
Tracking the path of predator recognition in a predator-naive population of the pond snail	7
One for all and all for one: phenotype assortment and reproductive success in masculinized females	7
Context-dependent coloration of prey and predator decision making in contrasting light environments	7
Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators?	7
Female mate preferences do not predict male sexual signals across populations	7
Resource predictability drives interannual variation in migratory behavior in a long-lived bird	7
Complex effects of helper relatedness on female extrapair reproduction in a cooperative breeder	7
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite	7
Female fruit flies copy the acceptance, but not the rejection, of a mate	6
Testing the niche differentiation hypothesis in wild capuchin monkeys with polymorphic color vision	6
Coordination of care by breeders and helpers in the cooperatively breeding long-tailed tit	6
Past agricultural land use affects multiple facets of ungulate antipredator behavior	6
Habitat choice versus habitat transformation in a nest-building fish: which matters most?	6
Social information use about novel aposematic prey depends on the intensity of the observed cue	6
Social and spatial conflict drive resident aggression toward outsiders in a group-living fish	6
Patch quality and habitat fragmentation shape the foraging patterns of a specialist folivore	6
Social status does not predict in-camp integration among egalitarian hunter-gatherer men	6
Anthropogenic noise and light alter temporal but not spatial breeding behavior in a wild frog	6
Physiological costs and age constraints of a sexual ornament: an experimental study in a wild bird	6
Varied female and male courtship behavior facilitated the evolution of a novel sexual signal	6
Visual obstruction, but not moderate traffic noise, increases reliance on heterospecific alarm calls	6
Males perceive honest information from female released sex pheromone in a moth	6
Differential parasitism of native and invasive widow spider egg sacs	6
The role of boundary length and adjacent patch contrast in guppy mate choice	6
Harvester ant nest architecture is more strongly affected by intrinsic than extrinsic factors	6
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather	6
The influence of maternal glucocorticoids on offspring phenotype in high- and low-risk environments	6
Habitat fragmentation induces rapid divergence of migratory and isolated sticklebacks	6
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments	6
The effect of social environment on bird song: listener-specific expression of a sexual signal	6
Short-term social dynamics following anthropogenic and natural disturbances in a free-living mammal	6
Exploring the effects of extreme polyandry on estimates of sexual selection and reproductive success	6
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime	6
The mere presence of cuckoos in breeding area alters egg-ejection decisions in Daurian redstarts	6
Crocodile social environments dictated by male philopatry	6
Kin do not always help: testing multiple hypotheses on nest feeding in a cooperatively breeding bird	6
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor	6
Mutual mate preferences and assortative mating in relation to a carotenoid-based color trait in blue tits	6
Male reproductive adjustments to an introduced nest predator	6
Cadmium does not affect post-hatching maternal care or early offspring development in earwigs	6
Studying predator foraging mode and hunting success at the individual level with an online videogame	5
Selective disappearance does not underlie age-related changes in trait repeatability in red squirrels	5
Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters	5

Foraging aggressiveness determines trophic niche in a generalist biological control species	5
Effects of chronic and acute predation risk on sexual ornamentation and mating preferences	5
Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird	5
Social insect colonies are more likely to accept unrelated queens when they come with workers	5
Helpers don’t help when it’s hot in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Southern Pied Babbler	5
Predation shapes behavioral lateralization: insights from an adaptive radiation of livebearing fish	5
Allo-preening is linked to vocal signature development in a wild parrot	5
Coercion promotes alloparental care in cooperative breeders	5
Resource preferences and the emergence of individual niche specialization within populations	5
Dissecting how behavior and environment shape spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	5
Dominance loss and tenure maintenance in Kalahari meerkats	5
Mating assortment and the strength of sexual selection in a polyandrous population of Cook Strait giant weta	5
Anthropogenic light and noise affect the life histories of femaleGryllus veletisfield crickets	5
How do resource distribution and taxonomy affect the use of dual foraging in seabirds? A review	5
Female countertactics to male feticide and infanticide in a multilevel primate society	5
Tradeoffs associated with autotomy and regeneration and their potential role in the evolution of regenerative abilities	5
With or without you: gut microbiota does not predict aggregation behavior in European earwig females	5
Limits to host colonization and speciation in a radiation of parasitic finches	5
Larval and adult experience and ecotype affect oviposition behavior in a niche-expanding butterfly	5
Discovery-defense strategy as a mechanism of social foraging of ants in tropical rainforest canopies	5
Geographic variation in dispersal of western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) populations across North America	5
Sexual selection does not drive hindwing tail elaboration in a moon moth,Actias luna	5
The definition of sexual selection: a response to comments on Shuker and Kvarnemo	5
Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care	5
Male fairy-wrens produce and maintain vibrant breeding colors irrespective of individual quality	5
One but not two grandmothers increased child survival in poorer families in west Bohemian population, 1708–1834	5
The role of plasticity, trade-offs, and feedbacks in shaping behavioral correlations	5
Resource-dependent investment in male sexual traits in a viviparous fish	5
Metabolic rate shapes differences in foraging efficiency among honeybee foragers	5
Something in the wind: the influence of wind speed and direction on African lion movement behavior	5
Efficiency of antlion trap design and larval behavior in capture success	4
Nest material preferences in wild hazel dormiceMuscardinus avellanarius: testing predictions from optimal foraging theory	4
Gregariousness, foraging effort, and affiliative interactions in lactating bonobos and chimpanzees	4
Adult sex ratio and male body condition affect alternative reproductive tactics in a spider	4
Dyadic leader–follower dynamics change across situations in captive house sparrows	4
Host-dependent dispersal demonstrates both-sex host specificity in cuckoos	4
Male–male behavioral interactions drive social-dominance-mediated differences in ejaculate traits	4
Virtual prey with Lévy motion are preferentially attacked by predatory fish	4
Sex and background risk influence responses to acute predation risk in Trinidadian guppies	4
Inter- and intraspecific female behavioral plasticity drive temporal niche segregation in two Tribolium species	4
Sexual selection for flight performance in hummingbirds	4
Egg mimicry, not the sight of a common cuckoo, is the cue for parasitic egg rejection	4
How biases in sperm storage relate to sperm use during oviposition in female yellow dung flies	4
Memory extinction and spontaneous recovery shaping parasitoid foraging behavior	4
Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors	4
Symbiotic microbiota vary with breeding group membership in a highly social joint-nesting bird	4
Why does the complexity of functionally equivalent signals vary across closely related species?	4
Size-selective harvesting impacts learning and decision-making in zebrafish, Danio rerio	4
Captivating color: evidence for optimal stimulus design in a polymorphic prey lure	4
Maximum performance expression is affected by octopamine and antennae removal in Acheta domesticus	4
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder	4
Fitness consequences of seasonally different life histories? A match–mismatch experiment	4
Testing the local mate competition rule in a quasi-gregarious parasitoid with facultative superparasitism	4
Perturbations highlight importance of social history in parakeet rank dynamics	4
Neonate personality affects early-life resource acquisition in a large social mammal	4
Condition-dependent sexual reproduction is driven by benefits, not costs of sex	4
No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion	4
Female and male plumage color is linked to parental quality, pairing, and extrapair mating in a tropical passerine	4
Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish	4
Influence of rainfall on foraging behavior of a tropical seabird	4
Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect	4
Mating competition and adult sex ratio in wild Trinidadian guppies	4
Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice	4
The effect of baculum shape and mating behavior on mating-induced prolactin release in female house mice	4
Carry on caring: infected females maintain their parental care despite high mortality	4
Male courtship reduces the risk of female aggression in web-building spiders but varies in structure	4
Reproductive aging and pace-of-life syndromes: more active females age faster	4
Heterogeneity in resource competition covaries with individual variation in long-term social relationships	4
Evidence of female preference for odor of distant over local males in a bat with female dispersal	4
The habitat connectivity hypothesis of escape in urban woodland birds	4
Family dynamics reveal that female house mice preferentially breed in their maternal community	3
Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator	3
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation	3
A rapidly evolving cricket produces percussive vibrations: how, who, when, and why	3
MHC mediates social odor via microbiota—it cannot work: a comment on Schubert et al.	3
Treefrogs adjust their acoustic signals in response to harmonics structure of intruder calls	3
Contextual variations in calls of two nonoscine birds: the blue petrel Halobaena caerulea and the Antarctic prion Pachyptila desolata	3
Variable ambient temperature promotes song learning and production in zebra finches	3
Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp	3
Eyes on the future: buffering increased costs of incubation by abandoning offspring	3
Brood as booty: the effect of colony size and resource value in social insect contests	3
Chronic predation risk affects prey escape abilities through behavioral and physiological changes	3
Group intrusions by a brood parasitic fish are not cooperative	3
Made-up mouths with preen oil reveal genetic and phenotypic conditions of starling nestlings	3
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	3
Negotiations over parental care: a test of alternative hypotheses in the clown anemonefish	3
Personality-mediated speed-accuracy tradeoffs in mating in a 17-year periodical cicada	3
Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate	3
Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider	3
Elucidating mutual mate choice: effects of trial design on preferences of male zebra finches	3
Why signal if you are not attractive? Courtship synchrony in a fiddler crab	3
Competition for acoustic space in a temperate-forest bird community	3
Carotenoid-dependent plumage coloration is associated with reduced male care in passerine birds	3
The devil is in the details: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	3
Repeatability is the first step in a broader hypothesis test: a comment on Stuber et al.	3