Behavioral Ecology

Article	Citations
The definition of sexual selection	41
Context-dependent trait covariances: how plasticity shapes behavioral syndromes	32
Spatial personalities: a meta-analysis of consistent individual differences in spatial behavior	25
A meta-analysis of factors influencing the strength of mate-choice copying in animals	25
Ecological and social drivers of neighbor recognition and the dear enemy effect in a poison frog	23
It’s not all about temperature: breeding success also affects nest design	22
The evolution of primate coloration revisited	22
Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance	21
Task syndromes: linking personality and task allocation in social animal groups	21
Tracking sickness effects on social encounters via continuous proximity sensing in wild vampire bats	21
Volatile fatty acid and aldehyde abundances evolve with behavior and habitat temperature inSceloporuslizards	20
Testosterone induces plumage ornamentation followed by enhanced territoriality in a female songbird	19
Extraterritorial forays by great tits are associated with dawn song in unexpected ways	18
Juvenile socio-ecological environment shapes material technology in nest-building birds	18
Fire-driven behavioral response to smoke in a Mediterranean lizard	17
Comparing dominance hierarchy methods using a data-splitting approach with real-world data	17
Anthropogenic noise disrupts mate choice behaviors in femaleGryllus bimaculatus	17
Olfactory cues of large carnivores modify red deer behavior and browsing intensity	16
Honest signaling of cooperative intentions	16
Color under pressure: how multiple factors shape defensive coloration	16
Show me you care: female mate choice based on egg attendance rather than male or territorial traits	15
Multiple factors affect the evolution of repertoire size across birds	15
Contingent trade-off decisions with feedbacks in cyclical environments: testing alternative theories	15
Predation risk increases intraspecific heterogeneity in white-tailed deer diel activity patterns	15
How can the MHC mediate social odor via the microbiota community? A deep dive into mechanisms	14

First explorations: ontogeny of central place foraging directions in two tropical seabirds	14
Heat wave effects on the behavior and life-history traits of sedentary antlions	14
Juvenile social dynamics reflect adult reproductive strategies in bottlenose dolphins	14
Temporal variation in maternal nest choice and its consequences for lizard embryos	14
Sexual selection maintains a female-specific character in a species with dynamic sex roles	14
A meta-analysis of the group-size effect on vigilance in mammals	13
Artificial light at night alters activity, body mass, and corticosterone level in a tropical anuran	13
Monotocy and the evolution of plural breeding in mammals	13
Sensory ecology of the frog-eating bat, Trachops cirrhosus, from DNA metabarcoding and behavior	13
Age and location influence the costs of compensatory and accelerated growth in a hibernating mammal	13
Fine-scale habitat selection limits trade-offs between foraging and temperature in a grassland bird	13
An evolutionary model of sensitive periods when the reliability of cues varies across ontogeny	13
Female ornaments: is red skin color attractive to males and related to condition in rhesus macaques?	13
Exposure to elevated temperature during development affects bumblebee foraging behavior	13
Wolves choose ambushing locations to counter and capitalize on the sensory abilities of their prey	13
Sex-specific contributions to nest building in birds	13
Acoustic and visual stimuli combined promote stronger responses to aerial predation in fish	13
Fast food in the city? Nomadic flying-foxes commute less and hang around for longer in urban areas	13
Social network position predicts male mating success in a small passerine	13
Maternal predation risk increases offspring’s exploration but does not affect schooling behavior	13
No sex differences in learning in wild bumblebees	12
Contrasts in kinship structure in mammalian societies	12
Sexual selection on size and shape in Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica)	12
Kalahari skinks eavesdrop on sociable weavers to manage predation by pygmy falcons and expand their realized niche	12
Asymmetries affecting aggressive contests between solitary parasitoids: the effect of host species	12
Red foxes avoid apex predation without increasing fear	12
Queen succession conflict in the paper wasp Polistes dominula is mitigated by age-based convention	11
Sequential organization of birdsong: relationships with individual quality and fitness	11
Analysis of within-individual variation in extrapair paternity in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) shows low repeatability and little effect of changes in neighborhood	11
Offspring desertion with care? Chick mortality and plastic female desertion in Snowy Plovers	11
Natural noise affects conspecific signal detection and territorial defense behaviors in songbirds	11
Sexual selection on jumping spider color pattern: investigation with a new quantitative approach	11
Polyandry and paternity affect disease resistance in eusocial wasps	11
Early life experience influences dispersal in coyotes (Canis latrans)	11
Habitat features and colony characteristics influencing ant personality and its fitness consequences	11
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	11
Flies improve the salience of iridescent sexual signals by orienting toward the sun	11
An experimental test to separate the effects of male age and mating history on female mate choice	11
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	11
Socially foraging bats discriminate between group members based on search-phase echolocation calls	11
Once an optimist, always an optimist? Studying cognitive judgment bias in mice	10
Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator	10
Call combinations in chimpanzees: a social tool?	10
Kinship does not predict the structure of a shark social network	10
A quantitative genetics approach to validate lab- versus field-based behavior in novel environments	10
What is cultural evolution anyway?	10
Hierarchy of fear: experimentally testing ungulate reactions to lion, African wild dog and cheetah	10
Zebra finch song is a very short-range signal in the wild: evidence from an integrated approach	10
Spontaneous quantity discrimination in a family-living lizard	10
Pathways linking female personality with reproductive success are trait- and year-specific	10

Direct and indirect effects of high temperatures on fledging in a cooperatively breeding bird	10
Experimental predator intrusions in a cooperative breeder reveal threat-dependent task partitioning	9
Context-dependent group size: effects of population density, habitat, and season	9
Environmental complexity during early life shapes average behavior in adulthood	9
Leave me alone: solitary females attract more mates in a nocturnal insect	9
Breeding site fidelity is lower in polygamous shorebirds and male-biased in monogamous species	9
Aerial attack strategies of hawks hunting bats, and the adaptive benefits of swarming	9
Vegetation structure drives mixed-species flock interaction strength and nuclear species roles	9
Behavioral variation in natural contests: integrating plasticity and personality	9
Nocturnal foraging lifts time constraints in winter for migratory geese but hardly speeds up fueling	9
Context-dependent consequences of color biases in a social fish	9
Predation risk shapes the use of conflicting personal risk and social safety information in guppies	9
Antipredator responses toward cat fur in wild brown rats tested in a semi-natural environment	9
Cohort consequences of drought and family disruption for male and female African elephants	9
Optimal distributions of central-place foragers: honey bee foraging in a mass flowering crop	9
Metabolic and behavioral adaptations of greater white-toothed shrews to urban conditions	8
Experimental shelter-switching shows shelter type alters predation on caterpillars (Hesperiidae)	8
Temporally variable predation risk and fear retention in Trinidadian guppies	8
Defense against predators incurs high reproductive costs for the aposematic moth Arctia plantaginis	8
The functional role of sibling aggression and “best of a bad job” strategies in cichlid juveniles	8
Male–male contest limits the expression of assortative mate preferences in a polymorphic poison frog	8
Identification of seminal proteins related to the inhibition of mate searching in female crickets	8
Reproductive state influences the degree of risk tolerance for a seasonally breeding mesopredator	8
Social and physical environment independently affect oviposition decisions in Drosophila	8
Built to change: dominance strategy changes with life stage in a primitively eusocial bee	8
The performance of permutations and exponential random graph models when analyzing animal networks	8
Familiarity, dominance, sex and season shape common waxbill social networks	8
Unlike a virgin: a meta-analytical review of female mating status in studies of female mate choice	8
Migration dynamics of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in western Hudson Bay	8
The interaction between ambush predators, search patterns of herbivores, and aggregations of plants	8
Silence is sexy: soundscape complexity alters mate choice in túngara frogs	8
Cost of an elaborate trait: a trade-off between attracting females and maintaining a clean ornament	7
Heterogenous effects of father and mother age on offspring development	7
Anthropogenic noise alters parental behavior and nestling developmental patterns, but not fledging condition	7
Social partners and temperature jointly affect morning foraging activity of small birds in winter	7
Female mate preferences do not predict male sexual signals across populations	7
Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species	7
The nature of privilege: intergenerational wealth in animal societies	7
Discoid decorations function to shield juvenile Argiope spiders from avian predator attacks	7
Density-dependent individual variation in male attractiveness in a wild field cricket	7
Context-dependent coloration of prey and predator decision making in contrasting light environments	7
Sex differences in the predictability of risk-taking behavior	7
Vocal recognition suggests premating isolation between lineages of a lekking hummingbird	7
Out in the open: behavior’s effect on predation risk and thermoregulation by aposematic caterpillars	7
Multiple constraints on urban bird communication: both abiotic and biotic noise shape songs in cities	7
Determinants of offspring sex in kangaroos: a test of multiple hypotheses	7
Monks relax sibling competition over parental resources in Tibetan populations	7
Complex effects of helper relatedness on female extrapair reproduction in a cooperative breeder	7
Daily protein prioritization and long-term nutrient balancing in a dietary generalist, the blue monkey	7
The conspecific avoidance strategies of adult female-calf humpback whales	7
Population differences in the effect of context on personality in an invasive lizard	7
Genetic inference of the mating system of free-ranging domestic dogs	7
Drivers of alloparental provisioning of fledglings in a colonially breeding bird	7
Phenotypic flexibility in background-mediated color change in sticklebacks	7
Smart mating: the cognitive ability of females influences their preference for male cognitive ability	7
Wild zebra finches are attracted towards acoustic cues from conspecific social groups	7
Ecological adaptation and birdsong: how body and bill sizes affect passerine sound frequencies	7
Acorn woodpeckers vocally discriminate current and former group members from nongroup members	7
Habitat disturbance alters color contrast and the detectability of cryptic and aposematic frogs	7
Photoperiod and rainfall are associated with seasonal shifts in social structure in a songbird	7
Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	6
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	6
Past agricultural land use affects multiple facets of ungulate antipredator behavior	6
Evidence for morph-specific substrate choice in a green-brown polymorphic grasshopper	6
Harvester ant nest architecture is more strongly affected by intrinsic than extrinsic factors	6
Choice of nest attributes as a frontline defense against brood parasitism	6
Natural and anthropogenic noise increase vigilance and decrease foraging behaviors in song sparrows	6
Mutual mate preferences and assortative mating in relation to a carotenoid-based color trait in blue tits	6
Ecology of fear and its effect on seed dispersal by a neotropical rodent	6
Size-dependent aggression towards kin in a cannibalistic species	6
Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure	6
Variance in lifetime reproductive success of male polar bears	6
The mere presence of cuckoos in breeding area alters egg-ejection decisions in Daurian redstarts	6
The role of boundary length and adjacent patch contrast in guppy mate choice	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
Power and punishment influence negotiations over parental care	6
Does brain size affect mate choice? An experimental examination in pygmy halfbeaks	6
Separate and combined effects of boat noise and a live crab predator on mussel valve gape behavior	6
Testing the niche differentiation hypothesis in wild capuchin monkeys with polymorphic color vision	6

Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals	6
Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore	6
Habitat choice versus habitat transformation in a nest-building fish: which matters most?	6
Increased male mating success in the presence of prey and rivals in a sexually cannibalistic mantis	6
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor	6
Contrasting parental color morphs increase regularity of prey deliveries in an African raptor	6
Novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior and hunger at different biological levels of analysis	6
Shoaling in the Trinidadian guppy: costs, benefits, and plasticity in response to an ambush predator	6
Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras	6
Males benefit personally from family life: evidence from a wild burying beetle population	5
Damage from intraspecific combat is costly	5
Male fairy-wrens produce and maintain vibrant breeding colors irrespective of individual quality	5
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments	5
Social insect colonies are more likely to accept unrelated queens when they come with workers	5
Metabolic rate shapes differences in foraging efficiency among honeybee foragers	5
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	5
Higher ultraviolet skin reflectance signals submissiveness in the anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos	5
Social and spatial conflict drive resident aggression toward outsiders in a group-living fish	5
Males perceive honest information from female released sex pheromone in a moth	5
Differential parasitism of native and invasive widow spider egg sacs	5
Display site selection in a ground dwelling bird: the importance of viewshed	5
Tracking the path of predator recognition in a predator-naive population of the pond snail	5
Social information use about novel aposematic prey depends on the intensity of the observed cue	5
Anthropogenic noise and light alter temporal but not spatial breeding behavior in a wild frog	5
One but not two grandmothers increased child survival in poorer families in west Bohemian population, 1708–1834	5
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite	5
Predation shapes behavioral lateralization: insights from an adaptive radiation of livebearing fish	5
Resource preferences and the emergence of individual niche specialization within populations	5
Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire	5
Hidden leks in a migratory songbird: mating advantages for earlier and more attractive males	5
Coordination of care by breeders and helpers in the cooperatively breeding long-tailed tit	5
Resource predictability drives interannual variation in migratory behavior in a long-lived bird	5
Physiological costs and age constraints of a sexual ornament: an experimental study in a wild bird	5
Foraging behavior and extended phenotype independently affect foraging success in spiders	5
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	5
Song type and song type matching are important for joint territorial defense in a duetting songbird	5
Mating assortment and the strength of sexual selection in a polyandrous population of Cook Strait giant weta	5
Kin do not always help: testing multiple hypotheses on nest feeding in a cooperatively breeding bird	5
Exploring the effects of extreme polyandry on estimates of sexual selection and reproductive success	5
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	5
The effect of individual state on the strength of mate choice in females and males	5
Effects of chronic and acute predation risk on sexual ornamentation and mating preferences	5
Social status does not predict in-camp integration among egalitarian hunter-gatherer men	4
Resource-dependent investment in male sexual traits in a viviparous fish	4
Male reproductive adjustments to an introduced nest predator	4
Social context and noise affect within and between male song adjustments in a common passerine	4
Carry on caring: infected females maintain their parental care despite high mortality	4
Foraging aggressiveness determines trophic niche in a generalist biological control species	4
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	4
Female and male plumage color is linked to parental quality, pairing, and extrapair mating in a tropical passerine	4
Efficiency of antlion trap design and larval behavior in capture success	4
Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect	4
Why does the complexity of functionally equivalent signals vary across closely related species?	4
Male–male behavioral interactions drive social-dominance-mediated differences in ejaculate traits	4
Male courtship reduces the risk of female aggression in web-building spiders but varies in structure	4
Anthropogenic light and noise affect the life histories of female Gryllus veletis field crickets	4
Selective disappearance does not underlie age-related changes in trait repeatability in red squirrels	4
How biases in sperm storage relate to sperm use during oviposition in female yellow dung flies	4
First evidence for a significant effect of the regression to the mean fallacy in mate copying: a comment on Davies et al	4
Limits to host colonization and speciation in a radiation of parasitic finches	4
Varied female and male courtship behavior facilitated the evolution of a novel sexual signal	4
Geographic variation in dispersal of western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) populations across North America	4
The ecological context and fitness impact of categorical perception: a comment on Green et al.	4
Condition- and context-dependent alternative reproductive tactic in Drosophila prolongata	4
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime	4
How do resource distribution and taxonomy affect the use of dual foraging in seabirds? A review	4
Crocodile social environments dictated by male philopatry	4
Habitat fragmentation induces rapid divergence of migratory and isolated sticklebacks	4
Evidence of female preference for odor of distant over local males in a bat with female dispersal	4
Testing the local mate competition rule in a quasi-gregarious parasitoid with facultative superparasitism	4
The effect of baculum shape and mating behavior on mating-induced prolactin release in female house mice	4
Discovery-defense strategy as a mechanism of social foraging of ants in tropical rainforest canopies	4
The habitat connectivity hypothesis of escape in urban woodland birds	4
The effect of social environment on bird song: listener-specific expression of a sexual signal	4
Allo-preening is linked to vocal signature development in a wild parrot	4
Larval and adult experience and ecotype affect oviposition behavior in a niche-expanding butterfly	4
No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion	4
The definition of sexual selection: a response to comments on Shuker and Kvarnemo	4
Maximum performance expression is affected by octopamine and antennae removal in Acheta domesticus	4
Male rock lizards may compensate reproductive costs of an immune challenge affecting sexual signals	4
Helpers don’t help when it’s hot in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Southern Pied Babbler	3
The signals and category boundaries that enable categorical perception: a comment on Green et al.	3
Group intrusions by a brood parasitic fish are not cooperative	3
Treefrogs adjust their acoustic signals in response to harmonics structure of intruder calls	3
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder	3
Why signal if you are not attractive? Courtship synchrony in a fiddler crab	3
Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird	3
Negotiations over parental care: a test of alternative hypotheses in the clown anemonefish	3
Virtual prey with Lévy motion are preferentially attacked by predatory fish	3
Tradeoffs associated with autotomy and regeneration and their potential role in the evolution of regenerative abilities	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
Sexual selection for flight performance in hummingbirds	3
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	3
Reproductive aging and pace-of-life syndromes: more active females age faster	3