Behavioral Ecology

ARTICLES:

Gail M. Blundell, Merav Ben-David, Pamela Groves, R. Terry Bowyer, and Eli Geffen

Kinship and sociality in coastal river otters: are they related?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 705-714; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh110 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Roger Härdling and Arja Kaitala

Male brood care without paternity increases mating success
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 715-721; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh046 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Gerald Borgia, Marc Egeth, J. Albert Uy, and Gail L. Patricelli

Juvenile infection and male display: testing the bright male hypothesis across individual life histories
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 722-728; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh067 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Lisa A. Leaver

Effects of food value, predation risk, and pilferage on the caching decisions of Dipodomys merriami
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 729-734; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh070 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

J. C. Moore, J. Pienaar, and J. M. Greeff

Male morphological variation and the determinants of body size in two Otiteselline fig wasps
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 735-741; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh069 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Francesca Gherardi

Resource partitioning between sexes in the "unconventional" hermit crab, Calcinus tubularis
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 742-747; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh075 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah E. Hill and H. Kern Reeve

Mating games: the evolution of human mating transactions
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 748-756; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh073 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel J. Mennill, Scott M. Ramsay, Peter T. Boag, and Laurene M. Ratcliffe

Patterns of extrapair mating in relation to male dominance status and female nest placement in black-capped chickadees
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 757-765; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh076 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Philip J. Baker, Stephan M. Funk, Michael W. Bruford, and Stephen Harris

Polygynandry in a red fox population: implications for the evolution of group living in canids?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 766-778; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh077 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Renée A. Duckworth, Mary T. Mendonça, and Geoffrey E. Hill

Condition-dependent sexual traits and social dominance in the house finch
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 779-784; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh079 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Lindsay S. E. Snow and Maydianne C. B. Andrade

Pattern of sperm transfer in redback spiders: implications for sperm competition and male sacrifice
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 785-792; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh080 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca R. Fleischman and Scott K. Sakaluk

No direct or indirect benefits to cryptic female choice in house crickets (Acheta domesticus)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 793-798; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh081 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Scott F. Lovell and M. Ross Lein

Neighbor-stranger discrimination by song in a suboscine bird, the alder flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 799-804; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh082 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Carlos Alonso-Alvarez, Claire Doutrelant, and Gabriele Sorci

Ultraviolet reflectance affects male-male interactions in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus ultramarinus)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 805-809; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh083 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Grant E. Brown, Jean-Francois Poirier, and James C. Adrian, Jr

Assessment of local predation risk: the role of subthreshold concentrations of chemical alarm cues
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 810-815; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh084 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

John D. Lloyd and Thomas E. Martin

Nest-site preference and maternal effects on offspring growth
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 816-823; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh085 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Yan Ropert-Coudert, Rory P. Wilson, Francis Daunt, and Akiko Kato

Patterns of energy acquisition by a central place forager: benefits of alternating short and long foraging trips
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 824-830; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh086 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Eleanor M. Russell, Yoram Yom-Tov, and Eli Geffen

Extended parental care and delayed dispersal: northern, tropical, and southern passerines compared
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 831-838; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh088 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen J. Martin, Nicolas Châline, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Graeme R. Jones, and Francis L. W. Ratnieks

Egg marking pheromones of anarchistic worker honeybees (Apis mellifera)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 16, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 839-844; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh089 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Scott K. Sakaluk, Mark T. H. Campbell, Andrew P. Clark, J. Chadwick Johnson, and Peter A. Keorpes

Hemolymph loss during nuptial feeding constrains male mating success in sagebrush crickets
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 845-849; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh113 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Gabriele Schino

Birth sex ratio and social rank: consistency and variability within and between primate groups
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 850-856; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh094 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Phillip G. Byrne

Male sperm expenditure under sperm competition risk and intensity in quacking frogs
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 857-863; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh098 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Leigh W. Simmons, Gillian Rhodes, Marianne Peters, and Nicole Koehler

Are human preferences for facial symmetry focused on signals of developmental instability?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 864-871; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh099 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Phillip G. Byrne and J. Dale Roberts

Intrasexual selection and group spawning in quacking frogs (Crinia georgiana)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 872-882; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh100 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Helen H. Hu and Douglass H. Morse

The effect of age on encounters between male crab spiders
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 883-888; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh114 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

FORUM:

Kevin J. McGraw, Rebecca J. Safran, Matthew R. Evans, and Kazumasa Wakamatsu

European barn swallows use melanin pigments to color their feathers brown
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 16, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 889-891; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh109 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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