Behavioral Ecology

Articles:

José Javier Cuervo, Anders Pape Møller, and Florentino de Lope

Experimental manipulation of tail length in female barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) affects their future reproductive success
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 451-456; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg027 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Samuel Neuenschwander, Martin W. G. Brinkhof, Mathias Kölliker, and Heinz Richner

Brood size, sibling competition, and the cost of begging in great tits (Parus major)
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 457-462; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg025 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Charles R. Brown, Rita Covas, Mark D. Anderson, and Mary Bomberger Brown

Multistate estimates of survival and movement in relation to colony size in the sociable weaver
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 463-471; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg034 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Ashleigh S. Griffin, Josephine M. Pemberton, Peter N. M. Brotherton, Grant McIlrath, David Gaynor, Ruth Kansky, Justin O'Riain, and Timothy H. Clutton-Brock

A genetic analysis of breeding success in the cooperative meerkat (Suricata suricatta)
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 472-480; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg040 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Wee Tek Tay, Minna Miettinen, and Arja Kaitala

Do male golden egg bugs carry eggs they have fertilized? A microsatellite analysis
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 481-485; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg029 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

A. F. Russell, P. N. M. Brotherton, G. M. McIlrath, L. L. Sharpe, and T. H. Clutton-Brock

Breeding success in cooperative meerkats: effects of helper number and maternal state
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 486-492; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg022 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Volker Salewski, Franz Bairlein, and Bernd Leisler

Niche partitioning of two Palearctic passerine migrants with Afrotropical residents in their West African winter quarters
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 493-502; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg021 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Stéphanie M. Doucet and Robert Montgomerie

Multiple sexual ornaments in satin bowerbirds: ultraviolet plumage and bowers signal different aspects of male quality
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 503-509; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg035 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth A. Tibbetts and Hudson Kern Reeve

Benefits of foundress associations in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus: increased productivity and survival, but no assurance of fitness returns
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 510-514; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg037 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Jodie M. Jawor, Susan U. Linville, Sara M. Beall, and Randall Breitwisch

Assortative mating by multiple ornaments in northern cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis)
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 515-520; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg041 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Jakob Bro-Jørgensen

No peace for estrous topi cows on leks
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 521-525; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg026 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Zimmer, Olaf Diestelhorst, and Klaus Lunau

Courtship in long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae): function and evolution of signals
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 526-530; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg028 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Maydianne C. B. Andrade

Risky mate search and male self-sacrifice in redback spiders
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 531-538; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg015 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Leigh W. Simmons, Julie Wernham, Francisco García-González, and Dan Kamien

Variation in paternity in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus: no detectable influence of sperm numbers or sperm length
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 539-545; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg038 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Erhard Strohm and Anita Bordon-Hauser

Advantages and disadvantages of large colony size in a halictid bee: the queen's perspective
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 546-553; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg039 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Lisa Angeloni, Jack W. Bradbury, and Ronald S. Burton

Multiple mating, paternity, and body size in a simultaneous hermaphrodite, Aplysia californica
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 554-560; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg033 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Ian M. Hamilton and Lawrence M. Dill

The use of territorial gardening versus kleptoparasitism by a subtropical reef fish (Kyphosus cornelii) is influenced by territory defendability
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 561-568; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg023 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown

Testis size increases with colony size in cliff swallows
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 569-575; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg030 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Buston

Forcible eviction and prevention of recruitment in the clown anemonefish
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 576-582; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg036 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Ofer Ovadia and Heinrich zu Dohna

The effect of intra- and interspecific aggression on patch residence time in Negev Desert gerbils: a competing risk analysis
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 583-591; doi:10.1093/beheco/arg031 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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