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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Promise and prospects in primate pelage research: a comment on Caro et al.	56
Predator selection on multicomponent warning signals in an aposematic moth	37
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor	30
Retraction to: Spider aggressiveness determines the bidirectional consequences of host–inquiline interactions	25
Expression of Concern: Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp	23
Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in  post-war Finland	21
Neonate personality affects early-life resource acquisition in a large social mammal	19
The development of spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	19
Lunar synchrony, geography, and individual clocks shape autumn migration timing in an avian migrant	18
The estimation of reproductive values from pedigrees	18
Single fathers sacrifice their broods and re-mate quickly in a socially monogamous cichlid	17
Should I stay or should I go? Behavioral adjustments of fur seals related to foraging success	17
Resource-dependent investment in male sexual traits in a viviparous fish	16
Contextual variations in calls of two nonoscine birds: the blue petrel Halobaena caerulea and the Antarctic prion Pachyptila desolata	16
Túngara frog call-timing decisions arise as internal rhythms interact with fluctuating chorus noise	16
Strong sexual selection fails to protect against inbreeding-driven extinction in a moth	16
Multisensory integration facilitates perceptual restoration of an interrupted call in a species of frog	16
Virtual prey with Lévy motion are preferentially attacked by predatory fish	16
Reproductive aging and pace-of-life syndromes: more active females age faster	16
Wolves choose ambushing locations to counter and capitalize on the sensory abilities of their prey	15
Corrigendum to: Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	15
Corrigendum to: Male–male behavioral interactions drive social-dominance mediated differences in ejaculate traits	15
Functional heterogeneity facilitates effectual collective task performance in a worker-polymorphic ant	14
Negotiations over parental care: a test of alternative hypotheses in the clown anemonefish	14
Social network differences and phenotypic divergence between stickleback ecotypes	14

How biases in sperm storage relate to sperm use during oviposition in female yellow dung flies	14
Passive and active parental food allocation in a songbird	14
Foraging is prioritized over nestmate rescue in desert ants and pupae are rescued more than adults	14
Correction to: Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird	14
Archerfish foraging success varies with immediate competition level but not group size	13
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	13
Sexual selection and species recognition promote complex male courtship displays in ungulates	13
Ineffective integration of multiple anti-predator defenses in a rotifer: a low-cost insurance?	13
With or without you: gut microbiota does not predict aggregation behavior in European earwig females	13
The value ofnottrusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk	13
Treefrogs adjust their acoustic signals in response to harmonics structure of intruder calls	13
Predation shapes behavioral lateralization: insights from an adaptive radiation of livebearing fish	12
Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation	12
Kinship does not predict the structure of a shark social network	12
Flexible habitat choice by aphids exposed to multiple cues reflecting present and future benefits	11
Made-up mouths with preen oil reveal genetic and phenotypic conditions of starling nestlings	11
A variance-partitioning approach for assessing mate choice and which sex controls mating behavior	11
Evidence of female preference for odor of distant over local males in a bat with female dispersal	11
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather	11
Nocturnal foraging lifts time constraints in winter for migratory geese but hardly speeds up fueling	11
To eat, or not to eat: a phantom decoy affects information-gathering behavior by a free-ranging mammalian herbivore	11
Carotenoid-dependent plumage coloration is associated with reduced male care in passerine birds	11
Peregrine falcons shift mean and variance in provisioning in response to increasing brood demand	10
Social and spatial conflict drive resident aggression toward outsiders in a group-living fish	10
Female mate preferences do not predict male sexual signals across populations	10
Condition-transfer maternal effects modulate inter-locus sexual conflict	10
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	10
Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient	10
Smart mating: the cognitive ability of females influences their preference for male cognitive ability	10
The effect of baculum shape and mating behavior on mating-induced prolactin release in female house mice	9
Effects of experimental nest treatment with herbs on ectoparasites and body condition of nestlings	9
The evolution of primate coloration revisited	9
Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history	9
Fitness consequences of seasonally different life histories? A match–mismatch experiment	9
The devil is in the details: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	9
Interplay of physical and social drivers of movement in male African savanna elephants	9
The role of plasticity, trade-offs, and feedbacks in shaping behavioral correlations	9
Anthropogenic noise disrupts mate choice behaviors in femaleGryllus bimaculatus	9
Divergent foraging strategies between populations of sympatric matrilineal killer whales	9
An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	9
Geographic variation in individual face learning based on plasticity rather than local genetic adaptation in Polistes wasps	9
Short-term heat waves have long-term consequences for parents and offspring in stickleback	9
Body mass dynamics of migratory nightjars are explained by individual turnover and fueling	9
The functional role of sibling aggression and “best of a bad job” strategies in cichlid juveniles	9
Wild bumblebees use both absolute and relative evaluation when foraging	9
The risk of brood parasitism does not affect levels of extrapair paternity in a cuckoo host	8
Flash behaviors protect prey from avian predators	8
Are weapon allometries steeper in major or minor males? A meta-analysis	8
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	8
Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire	8

MHC mediates social odor via microbiota—it cannot work: a comment on Schubert et al.	8
Territoriality varies across elevation in a Hawaiian songbird	8
Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite	8
Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate	8
Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance	8
Choice of nest attributes as a frontline defense against brood parasitism	8
Sexual selection for flight performance in hummingbirds	8
Effects of host size on progeny sex and survivorship of Hymenoepimecis pinheirensis	8
Tradeoffs associated with autotomy and regeneration and their potential role in the evolution of regenerative abilities	8
Let’s keep alternative hypotheses on the table: a response to comments on Schubert et al.	8
Which plumage patches provide information about condition and success in a female fairy-wren?	8
Background selection for camouflage shifts in accordance with color change in an intertidal prawn	8
Detectability of a poison frog and its Batesian mimic depends on body posture and viewing angle	8
Kin do not always help: testing multiple hypotheses on nest feeding in a cooperatively breeding bird	8
Social and seasonal variation in dwarf mongoose home-range size, daily movements, and burrow use	8
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder	8
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers	8
The interaction between ambush predators, search patterns of herbivores, and aggregations of plants	7
Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates	7
Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	7
A rapidly evolving cricket produces percussive vibrations: how, who, when, and why	7
Age, but not an immune challenge, triggers terminal investment in the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus	7
Sexual selection maintains a female-specific character in a species with dynamic sex roles	7
Group intrusions by a brood parasitic fish are not cooperative	7
Jekyll and Hyde: Day–night personality differences in the water scorpionNepa hoffmanni	7
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation	7
Increased male mating success in the presence of prey and rivals in a sexually cannibalistic mantis	7
Anthropogenic light and noise affect the life histories of femaleGryllus veletisfield crickets	7
An experimental field test of female defense in territorial male collared lizards	7
Population turnover, behavioral conservatism, and rates of cultural evolution	7
One but not two grandmothers increased child survival in poorer families in west Bohemian population, 1708–1834	7
Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider	7
Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with sperm aggregate quality in Peromyscus mice	7
Mating competition and adult sex ratio in wild Trinidadian guppies	7
Correction to: Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird	7
Why signal if you are not attractive? Courtship synchrony in a fiddler crab	7
Cohort consequences of drought and family disruption for male and female African elephants	7
Immigrant males’ knowledge influences baboon troop movements to reduce home range overlap and mating competition	7
Aging and environment affect female more than male color in a mutually ornamented bird	6
Harvester ant nest architecture is more strongly affected by intrinsic than extrinsic factors	6
Does sentinel presence improve foraging success? A study in a cooperative breeder	6
Helpers show plasticity in their responses to breeder turnover	6
Social network position predicts male mating success in a small passerine	6
Brood as booty: the effect of colony size and resource value in social insect contests	6
Chronic predation risk affects prey escape abilities through behavioral and physiological changes	6
Persistence associated with extractive foraging explains variation in innovation in Darwin’s finches	6
Social partners and temperature jointly affect morning foraging activity of small birds in winter	6
Multiple antipredator behaviors in wild red-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) groups reveal spatially distinct landscapes of fear	6
The tired copepod and the definition of sexual selection: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	6
Drivers of alloparental provisioning of fledglings in a colonially breeding bird	6
Female countertactics to male feticide and infanticide in a multilevel primate society	6
Sensory trap leads to reliable communication without a shift in nonsexual responses to the model cue	6
Living in mixed-sex groups limits sexual selection as a driver of pelage dimorphism in bovids	6
Elucidating mutual mate choice: effects of trial design on preferences of male zebra finches	6
Factors influencing dispersal initiation and timing in a facultative cooperative breeder	6
How do resource distribution and taxonomy affect the use of dual foraging in seabirds? A review	6
Captivating color: evidence for optimal stimulus design in a polymorphic prey lure	6
Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird	6
Maximum performance expression is affected by octopamine and antennae removal in Acheta domesticus	6
Anthropogenic noise alters parental behavior and nestling developmental patterns, but not fledging condition	6
Maternal investment and early thermal conditions affect performance and antipredator responses	6
Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al	6
Mating preferences act independently on different elements of visual signals in Heliconius butterflies	6
Explaining variation in the kinship composition of mammal groups	6
Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output	6
Helpers don’t help when it’s hot in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Southern Pied Babbler	6
Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in post-war Finland	6
Eyes on the future: buffering increased costs of incubation by abandoning offspring	6
Competition for acoustic space in a temperate-forest bird community	6
Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators?	6