OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavioral Ecology is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Ineffective integration of multiple anti-predator defenses in a rotifer: a low-cost insurance?	75
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder	62
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	35
The effect of baculum shape and mating behavior on mating-induced prolactin release in female house mice	29
Should I stay or should I go? Behavioral adjustments of fur seals related to foraging success	27
Corrigendum to: Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	26
An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	24
Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation	20
Expression of Concern: Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp	20
The value ofnottrusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk	20
Crocodile social environments dictated by male philopatry	19
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	19
Public information use—are invasive demersal fish species more effective than natives?	19
Inter-sexual phenotypic divergence is correlated with habitat structure in an invasive lizard	19
North American barn swallows pair, mate, and interact assortatively	19
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	19
Silver spoons, reproduction, and growth catch-up in eastern Grey kangaroos	18
Within-flock heterogeneity in exploratory affects flock behaviour in a highly gregarious bird	18
Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird	18
Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice	17
Chronic predation risk affects prey escape abilities through behavioral and physiological changes	17
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers	17
Adult sex ratio and male body condition affect alternative reproductive tactics in a spider	16
Factors influencing dispersal initiation and timing in a facultative cooperative breeder	16
Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate	16

A grander view of life that includes gametic processes: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	15
Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp	15
To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen	15
Social networks reveal sex- and age-patterned social structure in Butler’s gartersnakes (Thamnophis butleri)	15
Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect	15
Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays	14
Predation risk elicits a negative relationship between boldness and growth in Helisoma snails	14
Patterns of extra-territorial nest-box visits in a songbird suggest a role in extrapair mating	14
Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore	14
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime	14
Male mating tactics are associated with distinct female cognitive-behavioral profiles in 4 poeciliids	13
Perception and predation of ladybird spiders and other red-and-black arthropods by 3 predators	13
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	13
Housework or vigilance? Bilbies alter their burrowing activity under threat of predation by feral cats	13
Correction to: Does developmental environment affect sexual conflict? An experimental test in the seed beetle	13
The effect of heterospecific and conspecific competition on inter-individual differences in tungara frog tadpole (Engystomops pustulosus) behavior	13
Red foxes avoid apex predation without increasing fear	13
Exploring the effects of extreme polyandry on estimates of sexual selection and reproductive success	12
Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors	12
A reinvestigation of cognitive styles in sticklebacks: decision success varies with behavioral type	12
Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator	12
Whoever their partner, female blue tits breed the same	12
The evolution of brood parasitism from host egg predation	11
The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes	11
Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals	11
An island bird community retains anti-predator behavior toward a locally extinct nest predator	11
Efficiency of antlion trap design and larval behavior in capture success	11
Female state and condition-dependent chemical signaling revealed by male choice of silk trails	11
A field experiment reveals reciprocal effects of host personality and parasitism in wild lizards	11
Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice	11
Can I have fries with that? Context-dependent foraging behavior in urban and rural American crows	11
Not all who wander are lost: prospecting and settlement of male floaters in the spotless starling	11
Acoustic and visual stimuli combined promote stronger responses to aerial predation in fish	11
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	10
Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird	10
Expression of trematode-induced zombie-ant behavior is strongly associated with temperature	10
Multiple opportunities arise from multiple color defense strategies: a comment on Postema et al.	10
Complex adaptations in a multivariate trait: a comment on Caro et al.	10
Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator	10
Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality	10
Grow up, be persistent, and stay focused: keys for solving foraging problems by free-ranging possums	10
Light received by embryos promotes postnatal junior phenotypes in a seabird	10
Effects of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: is the web structure constrained by physiological trade-offs?	10
Range expansion during recolonisation: what does animal personality have to do with it?	10
Declining food availability alters vocal behavior of a nomadic finch	9
Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism	9
Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish	9
Foraging in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in movement patterns of a tropical sand-bubbler crab	9
Flamingos as ecosystem engineers: flock size and foraging behaviors linked to nutrient availability	9
Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish	9

Resource availability, competitor abundance and specialization affect competition among bumblebees	9
Risking infanticide or losing precious time? Delay of reproduction in a short-lived mammal	9
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments	9
Failed despots and the equitable distribution of fitness in a subsidized species	9
Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness	9
Social signaling via coloration in large groups: a comment on Caro et al.	9
Correction to: Black and orange coloration predict success during male–male competition in the guppy	9
Defensive coloration as a multivariate optimum: a comment on Postema et al	9
Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls	9
Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population	9
Temporal dissonance between group size and its benefits requires whole-of-lifecycle measurements	9
Clutch attendance and call parameters are linked to mating success in a glassfrog with paternal care	9
Olfactory cues of large carnivores modify red deer behavior and browsing intensity	9
Mutual mate preferences and assortative mating in relation to a carotenoid-based color trait in blue tits	8
Female mate preferences do not predict male sexual signals across populations	8
Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire	8
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor	8
Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al	8
Sex allocation is color morph-specific and associated with fledging condition in a wild bird	8
Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in  post-war Finland	8
Correction to: Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird	8
Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite	8
Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources	8
Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths	8
Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history	8
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather	8
Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient	8
Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care	8
Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish	7
Geographic differences in individual recognition linked with social but not nonsocial cognition	7
Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	7
Multiple constraints on urban bird communication: both abiotic and biotic noise shape songs in cities	7
Habitat change alters the expression and efficiency of a female ornament	7
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	7
The definition of sexual selection	7
Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness	7
Social insect colonies are more likely to accept unrelated queens when they come with workers	7
Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with sperm aggregate quality in Peromyscus mice	7
Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator	7
Acoustic effects complement visual displays of Great Bowerbird bowers	7
Common cuckoos do not mimic the size and shape of host eggs	7
Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters	7
Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider	7
Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output	7
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation	7
Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population	7
Effects of chronic and acute predation risk on sexual ornamentation and mating preferences	7
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	6
When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color	6
Nestling mouth colors mediate parental favoritism but do not influence detectability	6
Dissecting how behavior and environment shape spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	6
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations	6
Reduced fitness of secondary females in a polygynous species: a 32-yr study of Savannah sparrows	6
Studying the colors of monkeys: a comment on Caro et al.	6
No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion	6
Sex differences, sexual selection, and gamete size: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	6
Obituary: Staffan Ulfstrand	6
Structural equation modeling reveals determinants of fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird	6
Functionally redundant multimodal predator cues elicit changes in prey foraging behavior	6
Chemical footprints mediate habitat selection in co-occurring aphids	6
Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species	6
Perceived risk structures the space use of competing carnivores	6
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	6
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite	6
Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience	6
Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. (2022)	6
Condition- and context-dependent alternative reproductive tactic in Drosophila prolongata	6
Golden mimics use multiple defenses to counter generalist and specialist predators	6
Does losing reduce the tendency to engage with rivals to reach mates? An experimental test	6
Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time	6
Habitat complexity and complex signal function – exploring the role of ornamentation	6
Sexual selection: competition for resources provided by mating partners	6
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage	6
Song varies with latitude, climate, and species richness in a Neotropical bird	6
Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes	6