OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavioral Ecology is 7. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The definition of sexual selection	40
Context-dependent trait covariances: how plasticity shapes behavioral syndromes	31
Benefits of cooperation in captive Damaraland mole-rats	29
A meta-analysis of factors influencing the strength of mate-choice copying in animals	25
Heritability and correlations among learning and inhibitory control traits	25
Spatial personalities: a meta-analysis of consistent individual differences in spatial behavior	24
Ecological and social drivers of neighbor recognition and the dear enemy effect in a poison frog	23
Exploration profiles drive activity patterns and temporal niche specialization in a wild rodent	21
The evolution of primate coloration revisited	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	20
It’s not all about temperature: breeding success also affects nest design	20
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
Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance	19
Juvenile socio-ecological environment shapes material technology in nest-building birds	18
Extraterritorial forays by great tits are associated with dawn song in unexpected ways	17
Comparing dominance hierarchy methods using a data-splitting approach with real-world data	17
Fire-driven behavioral response to smoke in a Mediterranean lizard	16
Predator defense is shaped by risk, brood value and social group benefits in a cooperative breeder	16
Honest signaling of cooperative intentions	16
Olfactory cues of large carnivores modify red deer behavior and browsing intensity	16
Anthropogenic noise disrupts mate choice behaviors in femaleGryllus bimaculatus	16
Contingent trade-off decisions with feedbacks in cyclical environments: testing alternative theories	15
Color under pressure: how multiple factors shape defensive coloration	15

Multiple factors affect the evolution of repertoire size across birds	15
Song overlapping, noise, and territorial aggression in great tits	15
Sexual selection maintains a female-specific character in a species with dynamic sex roles	14
Juvenile social dynamics reflect adult reproductive strategies in bottlenose dolphins	14
Show me you care: female mate choice based on egg attendance rather than male or territorial traits	14
Predation risk increases intraspecific heterogeneity in white-tailed deer diel activity patterns	14
First explorations: ontogeny of central place foraging directions in two tropical seabirds	13
An evolutionary model of sensitive periods when the reliability of cues varies across ontogeny	13
Temporal variation in maternal nest choice and its consequences for lizard embryos	13
Monotocy and the evolution of plural breeding in mammals	13
Age and location influence the costs of compensatory and accelerated growth in a hibernating mammal	13
A meta-analysis of the group-size effect on vigilance in mammals	13
How can the MHC mediate social odor via the microbiota community? A deep dive into mechanisms	13
Social network position predicts male mating success in a small passerine	13
Heat wave effects on the behavior and life-history traits of sedentary antlions	13
Sex-specific contributions to nest building in birds	13
Artificial light at night alters activity, body mass, and corticosterone level in a tropical anuran	13
Fine-scale habitat selection limits trade-offs between foraging and temperature in a grassland bird	12
No sex differences in learning in wild bumblebees	12
Red foxes avoid apex predation without increasing fear	12
Sensory ecology of the frog-eating bat, Trachops cirrhosus, from DNA metabarcoding and behavior	12
Asymmetries affecting aggressive contests between solitary parasitoids: the effect of host species	12
Acoustic and visual stimuli combined promote stronger responses to aerial predation in fish	12
Fast food in the city? Nomadic flying-foxes commute less and hang around for longer in urban areas	12
Wolves choose ambushing locations to counter and capitalize on the sensory abilities of their prey	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
Female ornaments: is red skin color attractive to males and related to condition in rhesus macaques?	12
An experimental test to separate the effects of male age and mating history on female mate choice	11
Habitat features and colony characteristics influencing ant personality and its fitness consequences	11
Contrasts in kinship structure in mammalian societies	11
Flies improve the salience of iridescent sexual signals by orienting toward the sun	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
Natural noise affects conspecific signal detection and territorial defense behaviors in songbirds	11
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
Socially foraging bats discriminate between group members based on search-phase echolocation calls	11
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	11
Sexual selection on jumping spider color pattern: investigation with a new quantitative approach	11
Maternal predation risk increases offspring’s exploration but does not affect schooling behavior	11
A quantitative genetics approach to validate lab- versus field-based behavior in novel environments	10
What is cultural evolution anyway?	10
Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator	10
Pathways linking female personality with reproductive success are trait- and year-specific	10
Exposure to elevated temperature during development affects bumblebee foraging behavior	10
Once an optimist, always an optimist? Studying cognitive judgment bias in mice	10
Siring success in kangaroos: size matters for those in the right place at the right time	10
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	10
Hierarchy of fear: experimentally testing ungulate reactions to lion, African wild dog and cheetah	10
Kinship does not predict the structure of a shark social network	10

Polyandry and paternity affect disease resistance in eusocial wasps	10
Early life experience influences dispersal in coyotes (Canis latrans)	10
Offspring desertion with care? Chick mortality and plastic female desertion in Snowy Plovers	10
Direct and indirect effects of high temperatures on fledging in a cooperatively breeding bird	10
Aerial attack strategies of hawks hunting bats, and the adaptive benefits of swarming	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
Risk exposure trade-offs in the ontogeny of sexual segregation in Antarctic fur seal pups	9
Breeding site fidelity is lower in polygamous shorebirds and male-biased in monogamous species	9
Spontaneous quantity discrimination in a family-living lizard	9
Context-dependent group size: effects of population density, habitat, and season	9
Behavioral variation in natural contests: integrating plasticity and personality	9
Leave me alone: solitary females attract more mates in a nocturnal insect	9
Optimal distributions of central-place foragers: honey bee foraging in a mass flowering crop	9
Experimental predator intrusions in a cooperative breeder reveal threat-dependent task partitioning	9
Vegetation structure drives mixed-species flock interaction strength and nuclear species roles	9
Cohort consequences of drought and family disruption for male and female African elephants	9
Nocturnal foraging lifts time constraints in winter for migratory geese but hardly speeds up fueling	9
Zebra finch song is a very short-range signal in the wild: evidence from an integrated approach	9
Context-dependent consequences of color biases in a social fish	9
Metabolic and behavioral adaptations of greater white-toothed shrews to urban conditions	8
Reproductive state influences the degree of risk tolerance for a seasonally breeding mesopredator	8
Call combinations in chimpanzees: a social tool?	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
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
Temporally variable predation risk and fear retention in Trinidadian guppies	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
Male–male contest limits the expression of assortative mate preferences in a polymorphic poison frog	8
Experimental shelter-switching shows shelter type alters predation on caterpillars (Hesperiidae)	8
Environmental complexity during early life shapes average behavior in adulthood	8
Social and physical environment independently affect oviposition decisions in Drosophila	8
Silence is sexy: soundscape complexity alters mate choice in túngara frogs	8
Heterogenous effects of father and mother age on offspring development	7
Social partners and temperature jointly affect morning foraging activity of small birds in winter	7
Anthropogenic noise alters parental behavior and nestling developmental patterns, but not fledging condition	7
On the use of private versus social information in oviposition site choice decisions by Drosophila melanogaster females	7
Wild zebra finches are attracted towards acoustic cues from conspecific social groups	7
The nature of privilege: intergenerational wealth in animal societies	7
Discoid decorations function to shield juvenile Argiope spiders from avian predator attacks	7
Habitat disturbance alters color contrast and the detectability of cryptic and aposematic frogs	7
Identification of seminal proteins related to the inhibition of mate searching in female crickets	7
Cost of an elaborate trait: a trade-off between attracting females and maintaining a clean ornament	7
Vocal recognition suggests premating isolation between lineages of a lekking hummingbird	7
Drivers of alloparental provisioning of fledglings in a colonially breeding bird	7
Out in the open: behavior’s effect on predation risk and thermoregulation by aposematic caterpillars	7
Female mate preferences do not predict male sexual signals across populations	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
Familiarity, dominance, sex and season shape common waxbill social networks	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
Genetic inference of the mating system of free-ranging domestic dogs	7
Population differences in the effect of context on personality in an invasive lizard	7
The interaction between ambush predators, search patterns of herbivores, and aggregations of plants	7
Phenotypic flexibility in background-mediated color change in sticklebacks	7
Presence of same-sex kin promotes explorative behavior in subadult cichlid fish	7
Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species	7
Acorn woodpeckers vocally discriminate current and former group members from nongroup members	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
Sexual size dimorphism and sexual selection in artiodactyls	7