OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavioral Ecology is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Should I stay or should I go? Behavioral adjustments of fur seals related to foraging success	70
Corrigendum to: Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	46
An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	40
The value ofnottrusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk	25
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	23
Social pairing in the absence of reproductive senescence in a socially monogamous songbird	23
Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation	22
Heterogeneous responsiveness to environmental stimuli	22
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder	22
Expression of Concern: Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp	22
Inter-sexual phenotypic divergence is correlated with habitat structure in an invasive lizard	21
The interplay between satiation and temptation drives cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus foraging behavior and service quality toward client reef fish	21
North American barn swallows pair, mate, and interact assortatively	21
Predator activity and scent cues influence white-tailed deer behavior in a multi-predator landscape	20
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	18
Ineffective integration of multiple anti-predator defenses in a rotifer: a low-cost insurance?	18
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	18
Long-term evaluation of the association between dominance, bib size, sex and age	17
Collective self-assessment in banded mongoose intergroup contests	17
Factors influencing dispersal initiation and timing in a facultative cooperative breeder	17
Double brooding in house wrens is repeatable but constrained by time-of-season	17
Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators	16
Public information use—are invasive demersal fish species more effective than natives?	16
Within-flock heterogeneity in exploration affects flock behavior in a highly gregarious bird	16
Silver spoons, reproduction, and growth catch-up in eastern Grey kangaroos	16

Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate	16
Effects of seed mass on seed foraging behaviors of two sympatric rodent species	15
Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays	15
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers	15
Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp	15
Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice	15
Predation risk elicits a negative relationship between boldness and growth in Helisoma snails	15
To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen	14
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime	14
Social networks reveal sex- and age-patterned social structure in Butler’s gartersnakes (Thamnophis butleri)	14
Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect	14
Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population	14
Patterns of extra-territorial nest-box visits in a songbird suggest a role in extrapair mating	14
Correction to: Does developmental environment affect sexual conflict? An experimental test in the seed beetle	13
Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors	13
Causes and consequences of lifetime fitness variation in male Collared Lizards displaying alternative social ontogenies	13
Perception and predation of ladybird spiders and other red-and-black arthropods by 3 predators	13
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	13
Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality	12
Not all who wander are lost: prospecting and settlement of male floaters in the spotless starling	12
The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes	12
The effect of heterospecific and conspecific competition on inter-individual differences in tungara frog tadpole (Engystomops pustulosus) behavior	12
An island bird community retains anti-predator behavior toward a locally extinct nest predator	11
Expression of trematode-induced zombie-ant behavior is strongly associated with temperature	11
A field experiment reveals reciprocal effects of host personality and parasitism in wild lizards	11
Can I have fries with that? Context-dependent foraging behavior in urban and rural American crows	11
Effects of danger cues on mating interactions are size dependent in freshwater crayfish	11
Whoever their partner, female blue tits breed the same	11
Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator	11
The evolution of brood parasitism from host egg predation	10
Housework or vigilance? Bilbies alter their burrowing activity under threat of predation by feral cats	10
Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls	10
Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird	10
Grow up, be persistent, and stay focused: keys for solving foraging problems by free-ranging possums	10
Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice	10
Male mating tactics are associated with distinct female cognitive-behavioral profiles in 4 poeciliids	10
A reinvestigation of cognitive styles in sticklebacks: decision success varies with behavioral type	10
Light received by embryos promotes postnatal junior phenotypes in a seabird	10
Resource availability, competitor abundance and specialization affect competition among bumblebees	10
Range expansion during recolonization: what does animal personality have to do with it?	10
Female state and condition-dependent chemical signaling revealed by male choice of silk trails	10
Multiple opportunities arise from multiple color defense strategies: a comment on Postema et al.	10
Risking infanticide or losing precious time? Delay of reproduction in a short-lived mammal	10
Effects of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: is the web structure constrained by physiological trade-offs?	10
Failed despots and the equitable distribution of fitness in a subsidized species	9
Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish	9
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	9
Declining food availability alters vocal behavior of a nomadic finch	9
Latent layers in social networks and their implications for comparative analyses	9
Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population	9

Defensive coloration as a multivariate optimum: a comment on Postema et al	9
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments	9
Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism	9
Local dominance predicts foraging decisions in a changing environment	8
Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history	8
Foraging in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in movement patterns of a tropical sand-bubbler crab	8
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather	8
Flamingos as ecosystem engineers: flock size and foraging behaviors linked to nutrient availability	8
Correction to: Black and orange coloration predict success during male–male competition in the guppy	8
Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources	8
Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish	8
Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths	8
Clutch attendance and call parameters are linked to mating success in a glassfrog with paternal care	8
Sex allocation is color morph-specific and associated with fledging condition in a wild bird	8
Temporal dissonance between group size and its benefits requires whole-of-lifecycle measurements	8
Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in  post-war Finland	8
Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness	8
Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al	7
Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite	7
Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care	7
Habitat change alters the expression and efficiency of a female ornament	7
Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness	7
Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	7
Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output	7
Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider	7
Correction to: Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird	7
Geographic differences in individual recognition linked with social but not nonsocial cognition	7
Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters	7
Sexual selection in sharper focus: a comment on Janicke, Shuker, and Kvarnemo	7
Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient	7
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation	7
Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator	7
Diel effects on antipredator behavior: nuanced temporal effects in a Dynamic Landscape of Fear	7
Common cuckoos do not mimic the size and shape of host eggs	7
Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population	7
No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion	6
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	6
Banded mongooses discriminate relatedness and MHC diversity in unfamiliar conspecifics	6
Reduced fitness of secondary females in a polygynous species: a 32-yr study of Savannah sparrows	6
Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience	6
Torpor use in response to predation risk in a small, free-living bird	6
Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish	6
Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species	6
A data editor for behavioral ecology	6
Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. (2022)	6
Acoustic effects complement visual displays of Great Bowerbird bowers	6
When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color	6
Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes	6
Chemical cues facilitate foraging across the water-land interface in a resident predatory fish	5
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations	5
Cadmium does not affect post-hatching maternal care or early offspring development in earwigs	5
The complex interplay between male and female mating history: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	5
Hiding among colors: background color diversity impedes detection time	5
Heterogeneity in resource competition covaries with individual variation in long-term social relationships	5
Decoding the chaffinch “rain” call: a female-directed alarm call?	5
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite	5
Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras	5
Functionally redundant multimodal predator cues elicit changes in prey foraging behavior	5
Sexual selection: competition for resources provided by mating partners	5
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	5
Golden mimics use multiple defenses to counter generalist and specialist predators	5
Egg mimicry, not the sight of a common cuckoo, is the cue for parasitic egg rejection	5
Ecological adaptation and birdsong: how body and bill sizes affect passerine sound frequencies	5
Foraging flight strategy varies with species identity of co-occurring individuals in bats	5
Size-dependent aggression towards kin in a cannibalistic species	5
Dissecting how behavior and environment shape spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	5
Chemical footprints mediate habitat selection in co-occurring aphids	5
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	5
Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time	5
Reproduction is driven by seasonal environmental variation in an equatorial mammal, the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo)	5
Obituary: Staffan Ulfstrand	5
The habitat connectivity hypothesis of escape in urban woodland birds	5
Sexual selection does not drive hindwing tail elaboration in a moon moth,Actias luna	5
Does losing reduce the tendency to engage with rivals to reach mates? An experimental test	5
Nestling mouth colors mediate parental favoritism but do not influence detectability	5
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage	5