Behavioral Ecology

Articles:

Jaime Bosch and Rafael Márquez

Female preference function related to precedence effect in an amphibian anuran (Alytes cisternasii): tests with non-overlapping calls
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 149-153; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.149 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

A. Dejean, J. Orivel, and M. Gibernau

Specialized predation on plataspid heteropterans in a coccinellid beetle: adaptive behavior and responses of prey attended or not by ants
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 154-159; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.154 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Rosie Cooney

Colony defense in Damaraland mole-rats, Cryptomys damarensis
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 160-162; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.160 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Eivin Røskaft, Arne Moksnes, Bård G. Stokke, Csaba Moskát, and Marcel Honza

The spatial habitat structure of host populations explains the pattern of rejection behavior in hosts and parasitic adaptations in cuckoos
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 163-168; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.163 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Nicola Saino, Michele Incagli, Roberta Martinelli, and Anders Pape Møller

Immune response of male barn swallows in relation to parental effort, corticosterone plasma levels, and sexual ornamentation
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 169-174; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.169 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Heike Pröhl

Population differences in female resource abundance, adult sex ratio, and male mating success in Dendrobates pumilio
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 175-181; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.175 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Rodrigo A. Vásquez, Luis A. Ebensperger, and Francisco Bozinovic

The influence of habitat on travel speed, intermittent locomotion, and vigilance in a diurnal rodent
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 182-187; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.182 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Sara Östlund-Nilsson

Does paternity or paternal investment determine the level of paternal care and does female choice explain egg stealing in the fifteen-spined stickleback?
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 188-192; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.188 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Anne L. Engh, Stephan M. Funk, Russell C. Van Horn, Kim T. Scribner, Michael W. Bruford, Scot Libants, Micaela Szykman, Laura Smale, and Kay E. Holekamp

Reproductive skew among males in a female-dominated mammalian society
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 193-200; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.193 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew A. Kwiatkowski and Brian K. Sullivan

Mating system structure and population density in a polygynous lizard, Sauromalus obesus (= ater)
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 201-208; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.201 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

David B. Lank, Constance M. Smith, Olivier Hanotte, Arvo Ohtonen, Simon Bailey, and Terry Burke

High frequency of polyandry in a lek mating system
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 209-215; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.209 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Leszek Rychlik and Elzbieta Jancewicz

Prey size, prey nutrition, and food handling by shrews of different body sizes
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 216-223; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.216 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Adam G. Hart and Francis L. W. Ratnieks

Waste management in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 224-231; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.224 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

H. Jane Brockmann

An experimental approach to altering mating tactics in male horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus)
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 232-238; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.232 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Olav Rüppell, Jürgen Heinze, and Bert Hölldobler

Intracolonial patterns of reproduction in the queen-size dimorphic ant Leptothorax rugatulus
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 239-247; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.239 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Anders Pape Møller and Marion Petrie

Condition dependence, multiple sexual signals, and immunocompetence in peacocks
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 248-253; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.248 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Annelis Lüscher and Claus Wedekind

Size-dependent discrimination of mating partners in the simultaneous hermaphroditic cestode Schistocephalus solidus
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 254-259; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.254 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Ian M. Hamilton

Kleptoparasitism and the distribution of unequal competitors
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 260-267; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.260 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Roberto Sacchi, Nicola Saino, and Paolo Galeotti

Features of begging calls reveal general condition and need of food of barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) nestlings
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 268-273; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.268 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

L. D. Clifford and D. J. Anderson

Clutch size variation in the Nazca booby: a test of the egg quality hypothesis
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 274-279; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.274 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Tamara C. Grand

Alternative forms of competition and predation dramatically affect habitat selection under foraging—predation-risk trade-offs
Behavioral Ecology 2002 13: 280-290; doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.280 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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