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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	84
Should I stay or should I go? Behavioral adjustments of fur seals related to foraging success	63
Corrigendum to: Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	38
An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	32
The value ofnottrusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk	23
Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation	22
Expression of Concern: Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp	21
Ineffective integration of multiple anti-predator defenses in a rotifer: a low-cost insurance?	20
The effect of baculum shape and mating behavior on mating-induced prolactin release in female house mice	20
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	20
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	19
Social pairing in the absence of reproductive senescence in a socially monogamous songbird	19
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder	18
Inter-sexual phenotypic divergence is correlated with habitat structure in an invasive lizard	18
North American barn swallows pair, mate, and interact assortatively	17
Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators	16
Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice	16
Crocodile social environments dictated by male philopatry	16
Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird	16
Factors influencing dispersal initiation and timing in a facultative cooperative breeder	16
Chronic predation risk affects prey escape abilities through behavioral and physiological changes	16
Public information use—are invasive demersal fish species more effective than natives?	15
Within-flock heterogeneity in exploratory affects flock behaviour in a highly gregarious bird	15
Silver spoons, reproduction, and growth catch-up in eastern Grey kangaroos	15
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers	15

Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate	15
Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp	14
Adult sex ratio and male body condition affect alternative reproductive tactics in a spider	14
A grander view of life that includes gametic processes: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	13
Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays	13
Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect	13
Social networks reveal sex- and age-patterned social structure in Butler’s gartersnakes (Thamnophis butleri)	13
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	13
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime	13
To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen	13
Patterns of extra-territorial nest-box visits in a songbird suggest a role in extrapair mating	12
Efficiency of antlion trap design and larval behavior in capture success	12
Correction to: Does developmental environment affect sexual conflict? An experimental test in the seed beetle	12
Predation risk elicits a negative relationship between boldness and growth in Helisoma snails	12
Female state and condition-dependent chemical signaling revealed by male choice of silk trails	12
Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore	12
The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes	12
Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors	12
Expression of trematode-induced zombie-ant behavior is strongly associated with temperature	11
Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice	11
Range expansion during recolonization: what does animal personality have to do with it?	11
Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals	11
Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator	11
Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality	11
The effect of heterospecific and conspecific competition on inter-individual differences in tungara frog tadpole (Engystomops pustulosus) behavior	11
An island bird community retains anti-predator behavior toward a locally extinct nest predator	11
Whoever their partner, female blue tits breed the same	10
Housework or vigilance? Bilbies alter their burrowing activity under threat of predation by feral cats	10
The evolution of brood parasitism from host egg predation	10
Multiple opportunities arise from multiple color defense strategies: a comment on Postema et al.	10
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments	10
Not all who wander are lost: prospecting and settlement of male floaters in the spotless starling	10
Can I have fries with that? Context-dependent foraging behavior in urban and rural American crows	10
Perception and predation of ladybird spiders and other red-and-black arthropods by 3 predators	10
Grow up, be persistent, and stay focused: keys for solving foraging problems by free-ranging possums	10
Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird	10
A reinvestigation of cognitive styles in sticklebacks: decision success varies with behavioral type	10
A field experiment reveals reciprocal effects of host personality and parasitism in wild lizards	10
Exploring the effects of extreme polyandry on estimates of sexual selection and reproductive success	10
Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator	10
Male mating tactics are associated with distinct female cognitive-behavioral profiles in 4 poeciliids	10
Sex allocation is color morph-specific and associated with fledging condition in a wild bird	9
Resource availability, competitor abundance and specialization affect competition among bumblebees	9
Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls	9
Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism	9
Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population	9
Foraging in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in movement patterns of a tropical sand-bubbler crab	9
Clutch attendance and call parameters are linked to mating success in a glassfrog with paternal care	9
Risking infanticide or losing precious time? Delay of reproduction in a short-lived mammal	9
Light received by embryos promotes postnatal junior phenotypes in a seabird	9

Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish	9
Failed despots and the equitable distribution of fitness in a subsidized species	9
Correction to: Black and orange coloration predict success during male–male competition in the guppy	9
Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness	9
Defensive coloration as a multivariate optimum: a comment on Postema et al	9
Declining food availability alters vocal behavior of a nomadic finch	9
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	9
Effects of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: is the web structure constrained by physiological trade-offs?	9
Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish	9
Temporal dissonance between group size and its benefits requires whole-of-lifecycle measurements	9
Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire	8
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor	8
Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history	8
Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with sperm aggregate quality in Peromyscus mice	8
Flamingos as ecosystem engineers: flock size and foraging behaviors linked to nutrient availability	8
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather	8
Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient	8
Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths	8
Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al	8
Female mate preferences do not predict male sexual signals across populations	8
Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in  post-war Finland	8
Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources	8
Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care	8
Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider	8
Torpor use in response to predation risk in a small, free-living bird	7
Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish	7
Habitat change alters the expression and efficiency of a female ornament	7
Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	7
Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite	7
Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters	7
Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness	7
Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population	7
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation	7
Geographic differences in individual recognition linked with social but not nonsocial cognition	7
Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output	7
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	7
Acoustic effects complement visual displays of Great Bowerbird bowers	7
The definition of sexual selection	7
Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator	7
Correction to: Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird	7
Common cuckoos do not mimic the size and shape of host eggs	7
Effects of chronic and acute predation risk on sexual ornamentation and mating preferences	7
Perceived risk structures the space use of competing carnivores	6
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage	6
Song varies with latitude, climate, and species richness in a Neotropical bird	6
Dissecting how behavior and environment shape spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	6
Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras	6
Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes	6
Condition- and context-dependent alternative reproductive tactic in Drosophila prolongata	6
Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience	6
When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color	6
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations	6
Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species	6
Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time	6
Structural equation modeling reveals determinants of fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird	6
Habitat complexity and complex signal function – exploring the role of ornamentation	6
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	6
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	6
Reduced fitness of secondary females in a polygynous species: a 32-yr study of Savannah sparrows	6
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite	6
Sex differences, sexual selection, and gamete size: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	6
No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion	6
Hiding among colors: background color diversity impedes detection time	6
Nestling mouth colors mediate parental favoritism but do not influence detectability	6
Chemical footprints mediate habitat selection in co-occurring aphids	6
Functionally redundant multimodal predator cues elicit changes in prey foraging behavior	6
A data editor for behavioral ecology	6
Sexual selection: competition for resources provided by mating partners	6
Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. (2022)	6