Behavioral Ecology

ARTICLES:

Constantinos I. Michaelidis, Kristian C. Demary, and Sara M. Lewis

Male courtship signals and female signal assessment in Photinus greeni fireflies
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 18, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 329-335; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Anna Dornhaus, Franziska Klügl, Christoph Oechslein, Frank Puppe, and Lars Chittka

Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 18, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 336-344; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

David M. Shuker, Ido Pen, and Stuart A. West

Sex ratios under asymmetrical local mate competition in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 25, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 345-352; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj034 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Lutz Fromhage and Jutta M. Schneider

Emasculation to plug up females: the significance of pedipalp damage in Nephila fenestrata
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 11, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 353-357; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj037 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Marco Dadda and Angelo Bisazza

Lateralized female topminnows can forage and attend to a harassing male simultaneously
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 25, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 358-363; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj040 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Michael S. Mooring, Benjamin L. Hart, Thomas A. Fitzpatrick, Dominic D. Reisig, Tara T. Nishihira, Ian C. Fraser, and Jill E. Benjamin

Grooming in desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) and the ghost of parasites past
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 25, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 364-371; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj039 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Satoshi Awata, Dik Heg, Hiroyuki Munehara, and Masanori Kohda

Testis size depends on social status and the presence of male helpers in the cooperatively breeding cichlid Julidochromis ornatus
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 1, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 372-379; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj043 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Gregory D. Kerr and C. Michael Bull

Exclusive core areas in overlapping ranges of the sleepy lizard, Tiliqua rugosa
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 1, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 380-391; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj041 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary][Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Katrine Hauglund, Snorre B. Hagen, and Helene M. Lampe

Responses of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) to multimodal aposematic signals
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 25, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 392-398; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

László Zsolt Garamszegi, Santiago Merino, János Török, Marcel Eens, and Javier Martínez

Indicators of physiological stress and the elaboration of sexual traits in the collared flycatcher
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 25, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 399-404; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Douglass H. Morse

Fine-scale substrate use by a small sit-and-wait predator
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 22, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 405-409; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj053 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Luis A. Ebensperger and Daniel T. Blumstein

Sociality in New World hystricognath rodents is linked to predators and burrow digging
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 22, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 410-418; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj048 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Dik Heg, Ralph Bergmüller, Danielle Bonfils, Oliver Otti, Zina Bachar, Reto Burri, Gerald Heckel, and Michael Taborsky

Cichlids do not adjust reproductive skew to the availability of independent breeding options
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 8, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 419-429; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Edvardsson and David Canal

The effects of copulation duration in the bruchid beetle Callosobruchus maculatus
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 8, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 430-434; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Leif Engqvist

Females benefit from mating with different males in the scorpionfly Panorpa cognata
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 8, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 435-440; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj046 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

John M. McNamara, Elaine M.K. Wilson, and Alasdair I. Houston

Is it better to give information, receive it, or be ignorant in a two-player game?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 23, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 441-451; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj051 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Carsten Schradin and Neville Pillay

Female striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) change their home ranges in response to seasonal variation in food availability
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 452-458; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj047 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Hannu Pöysä

Public information and conspecific nest parasitism in goldeneyes: targeting safe nests by parasites
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 459-465; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj049 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Joanne C. Pomfret and Robert J. Knell

Immunity and the expression of a secondary sexual trait in a horned beetle
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 466-472; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj050 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher N. Balakrishnan and Michael D. Sorenson

Song discrimination suggests premating isolation among sympatric indigobird species and host races
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 22, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 473-478; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj052 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

H.S. Sushma and Mewa Singh

Resource partitioning and interspecific interactions among sympatric rain forest arboreal mammals of the Western Ghats, India
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 8, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 479-490; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj058 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Charlotte Roy Nielsen, Brad Semel, Paul W. Sherman, David F. Westneat, and Patricia G. Parker

Host-parasite relatedness in wood ducks: patterns of kinship and parasite success
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 17, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 491-496; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj057 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Kasper Thorup, Thomas Alerstam, Mikael Hake, and Nils Kjellén

Traveling or stopping of migrating birds in relation to wind: an illustration for the osprey
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 8, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 497-502; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj054 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Magdalena Nystrand

Influence of age, kinship, and large-scale habitat quality on local foraging choices of Siberian jays
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 8, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 503-509; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj055 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Briffa

Signal residuals during shell fighting in hermit crabs: can costly signals be used deceptively?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 8, 2006
Behavioral Ecology 2006 17: 510-514; doi:10.1093/beheco/arj059 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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