OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavioral Ecology is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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
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
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
Sexual selection maintains a female-specific character in a species with dynamic sex roles	15
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
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
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
Sexual selection on jumping spider color pattern: investigation with a new quantitative approach	13
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Males benefit personally from family life: evidence from a wild burying beetle population	8
Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals	8
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	8
Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore	8
Photoperiod and rainfall are associated with seasonal shifts in social structure in a songbird	8
Choice of nest attributes as a frontline defense against brood parasitism	8
Experimental shelter-switching shows shelter type alters predation on caterpillars (Hesperiidae)	8
Silence is sexy: soundscape complexity alters mate choice in túngara frogs	8
Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species	8
Heterogenous effects of father and mother age on offspring development	8
Separate and combined effects of boat noise and a live crab predator on mussel valve gape behavior	8
Genetic inference of the mating system of free-ranging domestic dogs	8
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	8
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	8
Habitat disturbance alters color contrast and the detectability of cryptic and aposematic frogs	8
The functional role of sibling aggression and “best of a bad job” strategies in cichlid juveniles	8
Reproductive state influences the degree of risk tolerance for a seasonally breeding mesopredator	8
Wild zebra finches are attracted towards acoustic cues from conspecific social groups	8
Population differences in the effect of context on personality in an invasive lizard	8
Size-dependent aggression towards kin in a cannibalistic species	8
Multiple constraints on urban bird communication: both abiotic and biotic noise shape songs in cities	8
The conspecific avoidance strategies of adult female-calf humpback whales	8
Smart mating: the cognitive ability of females influences their preference for male cognitive ability	8
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
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
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
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