Behavioral Ecology

Letter from the Editors:

David F. Westneat, Andrew Bourke, Mark Elgar, Anne Houde, Ian Owens, Gunilla Rosenqvist, and Marlene Zuk

Letter from the Editors
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 1; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.1 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles:

Frédérique Dubois, Luc-Alain Giraldeau, and James W. A. Grant

Resource defense in a group-foraging context
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 2-9; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.2 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Jon H. Mathisen, Arild Landa, Roy Andersen, and Joseph L. Fox

Sex-specific differences in reindeer calf behavior and predation vulnerability
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 10-15; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.10 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Nicola Saino, Roberto Ambrosini, Roberta Martinelli, Paola Ninni, and Anders Pape Møller

Gape coloration reliably reflects immunocompetence of barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) nestlings
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 16-22; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.16 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

M. Broom and G. D. Ruxton

Evolutionarily stable kleptoparasitism: consequences of different prey types
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 23-33; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.23 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Jun Abe, Yoshitaka Kamimura, Natsuko Kondo, and Masakazu Shimada

Extremely female-biased sex ratio and lethal male–male combat in a parasitoid wasp, Melittobia australica (Eulophidae)
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 34-39; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.34 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Philip A. Skau and Ivar Folstad

Do bacterial infections cause reduced ejaculate quality? A meta-analysis of antibiotic treatment of male infertility
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 40-47; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.40 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Eldridge S. Adams

Experimental analysis of territory size in a population of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 48-53; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.48 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Carl Anderson, Sylvia Cremer, and Jürgen Heinze

Live and let die: why fighter males of the ant Cardiocondyla kill each other but tolerate their winged rivals
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 54-62; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.54 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Lauren M. Mathews

Tests of the mate-guarding hypothesis for social monogamy: male snapping shrimp prefer to associate with high-value females
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 63-67; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.63 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Anna Qvarnström, Ben C. Sheldon, Tomas Pärt, and Lars Gustafsson

Male ornamentation, timing of breeding, and cost of polygyny in the collared flycatcher
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 68-73; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.68 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Briffa, Robert W. Elwood, and Jon M. Russ

Analysis of multiple aspects of a repeated signal: power and rate of rapping during shell fights in hermit crabs
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 74-79; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.74 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Susanne Foitzik, Birgit Fischer, and Jürgen Heinze

Arms races between social parasites and their hosts: geographic patterns of manipulation and resistance
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 80-88; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.80 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Ally R. Harari, Peter J. Landolt, Charles W. O'Brien, and H. Jane Brockmann

Prolonged mate guarding and sperm competition in the weevil Diaprepes abbreviatus (L.)
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 89-96; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.89 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Will Cresswell, S. Holt, J. M. Reid, D. P. Whitfield, and R. J. Mellanby

Do energetic demands constrain incubation scheduling in a biparental species?
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 97-102; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.97 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Raphaël De Cock and Erik Matthysen

Glow-worm larvae bioluminescence (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) operates as an aposematic signal upon toads (Bufo bufo)
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 103-108; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.103 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Hiroshi Hakoyama

The ideal free distribution when the resource is variable
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 109-115; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.109 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Eric Alden Smith, Rebecca Bliege Bird, and Douglas W. Bird

The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 116-126; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.116 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Kyle A. Young

Evolution of fighting behavior under asymmetric competition: an experimental test with juvenile salmonids
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 127-134; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.127 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher K. Cratsley and Sara M. Lewis

Female preference for male courtship flashes in Photinus ignitus fireflies
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 135-140; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.135 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Neal M. Williams and Vincent J. Tepedino

Consistent mixing of near and distant resources in foraging bouts by the solitary mason bee Osmia lignaria
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 141-149; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.1.141 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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