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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	65
Should I stay or should I go? Behavioral adjustments of fur seals related to foraging success	39
Corrigendum to: Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	33
An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	24
The value ofnottrusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk	23
Expression of Concern: Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp	21
Ineffective integration of multiple anti-predator defenses in a rotifer: a low-cost insurance?	20
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	20
Social pairing in the absence of reproductive senescence in a socially monogamous songbird	20
Inter-sexual phenotypic divergence is correlated with habitat structure in an invasive lizard	20
North American barn swallows pair, mate, and interact assortatively	20
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder	20
Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation	20
Predator activity and scent cues influence white-tailed deer behavior in a multi-predator landscape	19
Within-flock heterogeneity in exploration affects flock behavior in a highly gregarious bird	16
Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice	16
Heterogeneous responsiveness to environmental stimuli	16
Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird	16
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers	16
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	16
Crocodile social environments dictated by male philopatry	16
Chronic predation risk affects prey escape abilities through behavioral and physiological changes	15
Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators	15
Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate	15
Social networks reveal sex- and age-patterned social structure in Butler’s gartersnakes (Thamnophis butleri)	14

Factors influencing dispersal initiation and timing in a facultative cooperative breeder	14
To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen	14
Silver spoons, reproduction, and growth catch-up in eastern Grey kangaroos	14
Predation risk elicits a negative relationship between boldness and growth in Helisoma snails	14
Public information use—are invasive demersal fish species more effective than natives?	14
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	13
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime	13
Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population	13
Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays	13
Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect	13
Patterns of extra-territorial nest-box visits in a songbird suggest a role in extrapair mating	13
Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp	13
Adult sex ratio and male body condition affect alternative reproductive tactics in a spider	13
Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore	13
Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors	12
Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals	12
Female state and condition-dependent chemical signaling revealed by male choice of silk trails	12
The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes	12
Correction to: Does developmental environment affect sexual conflict? An experimental test in the seed beetle	12
Efficiency of antlion trap design and larval behavior in capture success	12
Expression of trematode-induced zombie-ant behavior is strongly associated with temperature	12
Perception and predation of ladybird spiders and other red-and-black arthropods by 3 predators	11
Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator	11
Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice	11
An island bird community retains anti-predator behavior toward a locally extinct nest predator	10
Housework or vigilance? Bilbies alter their burrowing activity under threat of predation by feral cats	10
The evolution of brood parasitism from host egg predation	10
Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality	10
Multiple opportunities arise from multiple color defense strategies: a comment on Postema et al.	10
Range expansion during recolonization: what does animal personality have to do with it?	10
Can I have fries with that? Context-dependent foraging behavior in urban and rural American crows	10
Not all who wander are lost: prospecting and settlement of male floaters in the spotless starling	10
The effect of heterospecific and conspecific competition on inter-individual differences in tungara frog tadpole (Engystomops pustulosus) behavior	10
Whoever their partner, female blue tits breed the same	10
A reinvestigation of cognitive styles in sticklebacks: decision success varies with behavioral type	10
A field experiment reveals reciprocal effects of host personality and parasitism in wild lizards	10
Male mating tactics are associated with distinct female cognitive-behavioral profiles in 4 poeciliids	10
Effects of danger cues on mating interactions are size dependent in freshwater crayfish	10
Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism	9
Correction to: Black and orange coloration predict success during male–male competition in the guppy	9
Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator	9
Risking infanticide or losing precious time? Delay of reproduction in a short-lived mammal	9
Light received by embryos promotes postnatal junior phenotypes in a seabird	9
Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population	9
Failed despots and the equitable distribution of fitness in a subsidized species	9
Temporal dissonance between group size and its benefits requires whole-of-lifecycle measurements	9
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments	9
Resource availability, competitor abundance and specialization affect competition among bumblebees	9
Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls	9
Declining food availability alters vocal behavior of a nomadic finch	9

Defensive coloration as a multivariate optimum: a comment on Postema et al	9
Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish	9
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	9
Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird	9
Grow up, be persistent, and stay focused: keys for solving foraging problems by free-ranging possums	9
Effects of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: is the web structure constrained by physiological trade-offs?	9
Sex allocation is color morph-specific and associated with fledging condition in a wild bird	8
Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness	8
Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths	8
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather	8
Clutch attendance and call parameters are linked to mating success in a glassfrog with paternal care	8
Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history	8
Flamingos as ecosystem engineers: flock size and foraging behaviors linked to nutrient availability	8
Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in  post-war Finland	8
Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources	8
Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish	8
Foraging in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in movement patterns of a tropical sand-bubbler crab	8
Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient	8
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor	8
Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider	7
Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care	7
Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite	7
Habitat change alters the expression and efficiency of a female ornament	7
Geographic differences in individual recognition linked with social but not nonsocial cognition	7
Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator	7
Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire	7
Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	7
Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output	7
Common cuckoos do not mimic the size and shape of host eggs	7
Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with sperm aggregate quality in Peromyscus mice	7
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation	7
Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al	7
Correction to: Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird	7
Acoustic effects complement visual displays of Great Bowerbird bowers	7
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage	6
Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness	6
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations	6
Sexual selection: competition for resources provided by mating partners	6
A data editor for behavioral ecology	6
Song varies with latitude, climate, and species richness in a Neotropical bird	6
Perceived risk structures the space use of competing carnivores	6
Sexual selection in sharper focus: A comment on Janicke, Shuker and Kvarnemo	6
Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population	6
Effects of chronic and acute predation risk on sexual ornamentation and mating preferences	6
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	6
Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species	6
Reduced fitness of secondary females in a polygynous species: a 32-yr study of Savannah sparrows	6
Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes	6
When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color	6
Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. (2022)	6
Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters	6
Torpor use in response to predation risk in a small, free-living bird	6
No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion	6
Condition- and context-dependent alternative reproductive tactic in Drosophila prolongata	6
Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time	6
Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience	6
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	6
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite	6
Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish	6
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	6