Behavioral Ecology

ARTICLES:

Michael P. Speed, David J. Kelly, Andrew M. Davidson, and Graeme D. Ruxton

Countershading enhances crypsis with some bird species but not others
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 17, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 327-334; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh166 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

László Zsolt Garamszegi, Marcel Eens, Johannes Erritzøe, and Anders Pape Møller

Sexually size dimorphic brains and song complexity in passerine birds
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on October 20, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 335-345; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh167 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Ekblom, Stein Are Sæther, Dennis Hasselquist, David Hannersjö, Peder Fiske, John Atle Kålås, and Jacob Höglund

Female choice and male humoral immune response in the lekking great snipe (Gallinago media)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on October 6, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 346-351; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh168 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Guy Beauchamp and Esteban Fernández-Juricic

The group-size paradox: effects of learning and patch departure rules
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on September 29, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 352-357; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh169 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Jo Ridley, Douglas W. Yu, and William J. Sutherland

Why long-lived species are more likely to be social: the role of local dominance
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on October 20, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 358-363; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh170 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Sara Magalhães, Christian Tudorache, Marta Montserrat, Roos van Maanen, Maurice W. Sabelis, and Arne Janssen

Diet of intraguild predators affects antipredator behavior in intraguild prey
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on October 13, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 364-370; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh171 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

David A. Shealer, Jeffrey A. Spendelow, Jeff S. Hatfield, and Ian C. T. Nisbet

The adaptive significance of stealing in a marine bird and its relationship to parental quality
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 10, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 371-376; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari008 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Lutz Fromhage and Jutta M. Schneider

Safer sex with feeding females: sexual conflict in a cannibalistic spider
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 24, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 377-382; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari011 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Gábor Michl, János Török, Péter Péczely, László Z. Garamszegi, and Hubert Schwabl

Female collared flycatchers adjust yolk testosterone to male age, but not to attractiveness
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 3, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 383-388; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari002 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Bridget S. Green and Mark I. McCormick

O₂ replenishment to fish nests: males adjust brood care to ambient conditions and brood development
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 10, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 389-397; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari007 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah E. Hill and H. Kern Reeve

Low fertility in humans as the evolutionary outcome of snowballing resource games
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 3, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 398-402; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari001 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Nicolas Châline, Stephen J. Martin, and Francis L.W. Ratnieks

Absence of nepotism toward imprisoned young queens during swarming in the honey bee
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 3, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 403-409; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari003 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Philip A. Skau and Ivar Folstad

Does immunity regulate ejaculate quality and fertility in humans?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 3, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 410-416; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari004 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Christina A. D. Semeniuk and Lawrence M. Dill

Cost/benefit analysis of group and solitary resting in the cowtail stingray, Pastinachus sephen
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 3, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 417-426; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari005 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Geoffrey B. Steinhart, Melissa E. Sandrene, Stephanie Weaver, Roy A. Stein, and Elizabeth A. Marschall

Increased parental care cost for nest-guarding fish in a lake with hyperabundant nest predators
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 3, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 427-434; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari006 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Matteo Griggio, Giuliano Matessi, and Andrea Pilastro

Should I stay or should I go? Female brood desertion and male counterstrategy in rock sparrows
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 24, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 435-441; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari009 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Ellen Kalmbach, Robert W. Furness, and Richard Griffiths

Sex-biased environmental sensitivity: natural and experimental evidence from a bird species with larger females
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 12, 2005
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 442-449; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari018 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Carsten Schradin and Neville Pillay

The influence of the father on offspring development in the striped mouse
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on December 8, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 450-455; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari015 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

John A. Eimes, Patricia G. Parker, Jerram L. Brown, and Esther R. Brown

Extrapair fertilization and genetic similarity of social mates in the Mexican jay
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 24, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 456-460; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari010 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Martin A. Schäfer and Gabriele Uhl

Sequential mate encounters: female but not male body size influences female remating behavior
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on December 8, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 461-466; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari013 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Piotr Matyjasiak

Birds associate species-specific acoustic and visual cues: recognition of heterospecific rivals by male blackcaps
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 24, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 467-471; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari012 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Melissa L. Thomas, Neil D. Tsutsui, and David A. Holway

Intraspecific competition influences the symmetry and intensity of aggression in the Argentine ant
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on December 8, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 472-481; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari014 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Culum Brown and Victoria A. Braithwaite

Effects of predation pressure on the cognitive ability of the poeciliid Brachyraphis episcopi
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on December 15, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 482-487; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari016 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen C. Pratt

Quorum sensing by encounter rates in the ant Temnothorax albipennis
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 19, 2005
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 488-496; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari020 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

FORUM:

Martin Granbom, Lars Råberg, and Henrik G. Smith

The spatial and temporal repeatability of PHA-responses
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on August 11, 2004
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16: 497-498; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh137 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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