Behavioral Ecology

ARTICLES:

Kevin P. Eckerle and Charles F. Thompson

Addition of arthropod cocoons to house wren nests is correlated with delayed pairing
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 1-7; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh122 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Gi-Mick Wu and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Risky decisions: a test of risk sensitivity in socially foraging flocks of Lonchura punctulata
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 8-14; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh127 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Michel Chapuisat, Christian Bernasconi, Sophie Hoehn, and Max Reuter

Nestmate recognition in the unicolonial ant Formica paralugubris
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 15-19; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh128 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Svein Dale, Anne Lunde, and Øyvind Steifetten

Longer breeding dispersal than natal dispersal in the ortolan bunting
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 20-24; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh129 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Marc Théry, Martine Debut, Doris Gomez, and Jérôme Casas

Specific color sensitivities of prey and predator explain camouflage in different visual systems
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 14, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 25-29; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh130 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Mark I. Cook, Steven R. Beissinger, Gary A. Toranzos, Roberto A. Rodriguez, and Wayne J. Arendt

Microbial infection affects egg viability and incubation behavior in a tropical passerine
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 30-36; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh131 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Tatjana Krama and Indrikis Krams

Cost of mobbing call to breeding pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 14, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 37-40; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh116 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Melanie K. Rathburn and Robert Montgomerie

Offspring sex ratios correlate with pair–male condition in a cooperatively breeding fairy–wren
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 41-47; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh117 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Paul G. McDonald, Penny D. Olsen, and Andrew Cockburn

Selection on body size in a raptor with pronounced reversed sexual size dimorphism: are bigger females better?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 7, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 48-56; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh118 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Kevin Woodward and Miriam H. Richards

The parental investment model and minimum mate choice criteria in humans
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 57-61; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh121 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Alison N. Rutstein, Lucy Gilbert, Peter J. B. Slater, and Jeff A. Graves

Sex-specific patterns of yolk androgen allocation depend on maternal diet in the zebra finch
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 28, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 62-69; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh123 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Kai Lindström and Christophe Pampoulie

Effects of resource holding potential and resource value on tenure at nest sites in sand gobies
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 70-74; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh132 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Eileen A. Hebets

Attention-altering signal interactions in the multimodal courtship display of the wolf spider Schizocosa uetzi
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 75-82; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh133 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Tricia S. Clement, Kerry E. Grens, and Russell D. Fernald

Female affiliative preference depends on reproductive state in the African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 83-88; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh134 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Bruno A. Walther and Dale H. Clayton

Elaborate ornaments are costly to maintain: evidence for high maintenance handicaps
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 89-95; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh135 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Deseada Parejo, Etienne Danchin, and Jesús M. Avilés

The heterospecific habitat copying hypothesis: can competitors indicate habitat quality?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 96-105; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh136 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Dario Maestripieri and James R. Roney

Primate copulation calls and postcopulatory female choice
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 7, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 106-113; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh120 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Luis M. Torres-Vila, M. Carmen Rodríguez-Molina, Miguel McMinn, and Ana Rodríguez-Molina

Larval food source promotes cyclic seasonal variation in polyandry in the moth Lobesia botrana
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 5, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 114-122; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh138 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Göran Arnqvist, Tina Nilsson, and Mari Katvala

Mating rate and fitness in female bean weevils
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 7, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 123-127; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh119 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Philip T. Starks, Rebecca N. Johnson, Adam J. Siegel, and Meridith M. Decelle

Heat shielding: a task for youngsters
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 128-132; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh124 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Justin G. Schuetz

Common waxbills use carnivore scat to reduce the risk of nest predation
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 133-137; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh139 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Linda A. Whittingham and Peter O. Dunn

Effects of extra-pair and within-pair reproductive success on the opportunity for selection in birds
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 138-144; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh140 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Clint D. Kelly

Allometry and sexual selection of male weaponry in Wellington tree weta, Hemideina crassidens
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 145-152; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh141 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Lien T. Luong and Harry K. Kaya

Sexually transmitted nematodes affect spermatophylax production in the cricket, Gryllodes sigillatus
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 153-158; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh146 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

C. Giovanni Galizia, Jan Kunze, Andreas Gumbert, Anna-Karin Borg-Karlson, Silke Sachse, Christian Markl, and Randolf Menzel

Relationship of visual and olfactory signal parameters in a food-deceptive flower mimicry system
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 5, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 159-168; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh147 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Erin L. Shelley and Daniel T. Blumstein

The evolution of vocal alarm communication in rodents
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 169-177; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh148 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Charlotte K. Hemelrijk and Hanspeter Kunz

Density distribution and size sorting in fish schools: an individual-based model
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 25, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 178-187; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh149 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Nils Anthes and Nico K. Michiels

Do "sperm trading" simultaneous hermaphrodites always trade sperm?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 5, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 188-195; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh150 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Kate E. Savage, John Hunt, Michael D. Jennions, and Robert Brooks

Male attractiveness covaries with fighting ability but not with prior fight outcome in house crickets
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 196-200; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh143 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

David A. Gray

Does courtship behavior contribute to species-level reproductive isolation in field crickets?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 201-206; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh144 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Scott A. Tarof, Laurene M. Ratcliffe, Michael M. Kasumovic, and Peter T. Boag

Are least flycatcher (Empidonax minimus) clusters hidden leks?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 207-217; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh155 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Stéphanie M. Doucet, Daniel J. Mennill, Robert Montgomerie, Peter T. Boag, and Laurene M. Ratcliffe

Achromatic plumage reflectance predicts reproductive success in male black-capped chickadees
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on September 8, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 218-222; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh154 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Luc F. Bussière, Hassaan Abdul Basit, and Darryl T. Gwynne

Preferred males are not always good providers: female choice and male investment in tree crickets
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 25, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 223-231; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh156 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Kotaro Mori and Yutaka Saito

Variation in social behavior within a spider mite genus, Stigmaeopsis (Acari: Tetranychidae)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 25, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 232-238; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh157 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Silke Bauer, Jörg Samietz, and Uta Berger

Sexual harassment in heterogeneous landscapes can mediate population regulation in a grasshopper
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on September 8, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 239-246; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh158 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Claudia Mettke-Hofmann, Michael Wink, Hans Winkler, and Bernd Leisler

Exploration of environmental changes relates to lifestyle
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 247-254; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh159 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Luc F. Bussière, Andrew P. Clark, and Darryl T. Gwynne

Precopulatory choice for cues of material benefits in tree crickets
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 5, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 255-259; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh151 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Wikelski, Silke S. Steiger, Bernhard Gall, and Karin N. Nelson

Sex, drugs and mating role: testosterone-induced phenotype-switching in Galapagos marine iguanas
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on September 8, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 260-268; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh160 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

J. Chadwick Johnson

Cohabitation of juvenile females with mature males promotes sexual cannibalism in fishing spiders
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 5, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 269-273; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh152 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Pierrick Blanchard, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Jean-Michel Gaillard, and Jon T. Jorgenson

Maternal condition and offspring sex ratio in polygynous ungulates: a case study of bighorn sheep
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 25, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 274-279; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh153 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Fanie Pelletier

Foraging time of rutting bighorn rams varies with individual behavior, not mating tactic
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on September 22, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 280-285; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh162 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Jason R. Rohr, Daesik Park, Aaron M. Sullivan, Malachy McKenna, Catherine R. Propper, and Dale M. Madison

Operational sex ratio in newts: field responses and characterization of a constituent chemical cue
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on September 22, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 286-293; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh164 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Gita R. Kolluru and Gregory F. Grether

The effects of resource availability on alternative mating tactics in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on September 22, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 294-300; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh161 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Paolo Galeotti, Roberto Sacchi, Daniele Pellitteri Rosa, and Mauro Fasola

Female preference for fast-rate, high-pitched calls in Hermann's tortoises Testudo hermanni
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on September 29, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 301-308; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh165 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Sönke Eggers, Michael Griesser, and Jan Ekman

Predator-induced plasticity in nest visitation rates in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on September 29, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 309-315; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh163 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

María Cristina Medina-Muñoz and Raúl Godoy-Herrera

Dispersal and prepupation behavior of Chilean sympatric Drosophila species that breed in the same site in nature
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 316-322; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh125 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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Douglas H. Johnson

What hypothesis tests are not: a response to Colegrave and Ruxton
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on July 21, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 323-324; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh142 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Nick Colegrave and Graeme D. Ruxton

What hypothesis tests are not: a reply to Johnson
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on September 1, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 325; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh145 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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