Behavioral Ecology

Article	Citations
The definition of sexual selection	42
Context-dependent trait covariances: how plasticity shapes behavioral syndromes	32
Spatial personalities: a meta-analysis of consistent individual differences in spatial behavior	29
A meta-analysis of factors influencing the strength of mate-choice copying in animals	25
Ecological and social drivers of neighbor recognition and the dear enemy effect in a poison frog	24
The evolution of primate coloration revisited	23
Tracking sickness effects on social encounters via continuous proximity sensing in wild vampire bats	22
It’s not all about temperature: breeding success also affects nest design	22
Task syndromes: linking personality and task allocation in social animal groups	21
Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance	21
Volatile fatty acid and aldehyde abundances evolve with behavior and habitat temperature inSceloporuslizards	20
Extraterritorial forays by great tits are associated with dawn song in unexpected ways	19
Testosterone induces plumage ornamentation followed by enhanced territoriality in a female songbird	19
Anthropogenic noise disrupts mate choice behaviors in femaleGryllus bimaculatus	18
Fire-driven behavioral response to smoke in a Mediterranean lizard	18
Olfactory cues of large carnivores modify red deer behavior and browsing intensity	17
Color under pressure: how multiple factors shape defensive coloration	17
Comparing dominance hierarchy methods using a data-splitting approach with real-world data	17
Predation risk increases intraspecific heterogeneity in white-tailed deer diel activity patterns	17
Honest signaling of cooperative intentions	17
Social network position predicts male mating success in a small passerine	16
Contingent trade-off decisions with feedbacks in cyclical environments: testing alternative theories	15
Exposure to elevated temperature during development affects bumblebee foraging behavior	15
Show me you care: female mate choice based on egg attendance rather than male or territorial traits	15
Sexual selection maintains a female-specific character in a species with dynamic sex roles	15

Multiple factors affect the evolution of repertoire size across birds	15
Temporal variation in maternal nest choice and its consequences for lizard embryos	15
Heat wave effects on the behavior and life-history traits of sedentary antlions	14
Monotocy and the evolution of plural breeding in mammals	14
A meta-analysis of the group-size effect on vigilance in mammals	14
Juvenile social dynamics reflect adult reproductive strategies in bottlenose dolphins	14
Fine-scale habitat selection limits trade-offs between foraging and temperature in a grassland bird	14
How can the MHC mediate social odor via the microbiota community? A deep dive into mechanisms	14
Wolves choose ambushing locations to counter and capitalize on the sensory abilities of their prey	13
An evolutionary model of sensitive periods when the reliability of cues varies across ontogeny	13
Artificial light at night alters activity, body mass, and corticosterone level in a tropical anuran	13
Fast food in the city? Nomadic flying-foxes commute less and hang around for longer in urban areas	13
Maternal predation risk increases offspring’s exploration but does not affect schooling behavior	13
Sex-specific contributions to nest building in birds	13
Contrasts in kinship structure in mammalian societies	13
Sensory ecology of the frog-eating bat, Trachops cirrhosus, from DNA metabarcoding and behavior	13
Sexual selection on size and shape in Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica)	13
Acoustic and visual stimuli combined promote stronger responses to aerial predation in fish	13
Female ornaments: is red skin color attractive to males and related to condition in rhesus macaques?	13
Asymmetries affecting aggressive contests between solitary parasitoids: the effect of host species	12
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	12
No sex differences in learning in wild bumblebees	12
Red foxes avoid apex predation without increasing fear	12
Kalahari skinks eavesdrop on sociable weavers to manage predation by pygmy falcons and expand their realized niche	12
Zebra finch song is a very short-range signal in the wild: evidence from an integrated approach	11
Early life experience influences dispersal in coyotes (Canis latrans)	11
Habitat features and colony characteristics influencing ant personality and its fitness consequences	11
Natural noise affects conspecific signal detection and territorial defense behaviors in songbirds	11
Sexual selection on jumping spider color pattern: investigation with a new quantitative approach	11
A quantitative genetics approach to validate lab- versus field-based behavior in novel environments	11
Polyandry and paternity affect disease resistance in eusocial wasps	11
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	11
Socially foraging bats discriminate between group members based on search-phase echolocation calls	11
Queen succession conflict in the paper wasp Polistes dominula is mitigated by age-based convention	11
Flies improve the salience of iridescent sexual signals by orienting toward the sun	11
An experimental test to separate the effects of male age and mating history on female mate choice	11
Analysis of within-individual variation in extrapair paternity in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) shows low repeatability and little effect of changes in neighborhood	11
Offspring desertion with care? Chick mortality and plastic female desertion in Snowy Plovers	11
Pathways linking female personality with reproductive success are trait- and year-specific	11
Cohort consequences of drought and family disruption for male and female African elephants	11
Sequential organization of birdsong: relationships with individual quality and fitness	11
Kinship does not predict the structure of a shark social network	10
Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator	10
Experimental predator intrusions in a cooperative breeder reveal threat-dependent task partitioning	10
Antipredator responses toward cat fur in wild brown rats tested in a semi-natural environment	10
Hierarchy of fear: experimentally testing ungulate reactions to lion, African wild dog and cheetah	10
Spontaneous quantity discrimination in a family-living lizard	10
Vegetation structure drives mixed-species flock interaction strength and nuclear species roles	10
Direct and indirect effects of high temperatures on fledging in a cooperatively breeding bird	10
Call combinations in chimpanzees: a social tool?	10

Once an optimist, always an optimist? Studying cognitive judgment bias in mice	10
What is cultural evolution anyway?	10
Context-dependent group size: effects of population density, habitat, and season	10
Environmental complexity during early life shapes average behavior in adulthood	10
Aerial attack strategies of hawks hunting bats, and the adaptive benefits of swarming	9
Social and physical environment independently affect oviposition decisions in Drosophila	9
Nocturnal foraging lifts time constraints in winter for migratory geese but hardly speeds up fueling	9
Context-dependent consequences of color biases in a social fish	9
The nature of privilege: intergenerational wealth in animal societies	9
Predation risk shapes the use of conflicting personal risk and social safety information in guppies	9
Behavioral variation in natural contests: integrating plasticity and personality	9
Leave me alone: solitary females attract more mates in a nocturnal insect	9
Male–male contest limits the expression of assortative mate preferences in a polymorphic poison frog	9
Breeding site fidelity is lower in polygamous shorebirds and male-biased in monogamous species	9
Discoid decorations function to shield juvenile Argiope spiders from avian predator attacks	9
Familiarity, dominance, sex and season shape common waxbill social networks	9
Sex differences in the predictability of risk-taking behavior	9
The interaction between ambush predators, search patterns of herbivores, and aggregations of plants	9
Optimal distributions of central-place foragers: honey bee foraging in a mass flowering crop	9
Metabolic and behavioral adaptations of greater white-toothed shrews to urban conditions	9
Monks relax sibling competition over parental resources in Tibetan populations	8
Reproductive state influences the degree of risk tolerance for a seasonally breeding mesopredator	8
Migration dynamics of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in western Hudson Bay	8
Built to change: dominance strategy changes with life stage in a primitively eusocial bee	8
The performance of permutations and exponential random graph models when analyzing animal networks	8
Ecological adaptation and birdsong: how body and bill sizes affect passerine sound frequencies	8
Habitat disturbance alters color contrast and the detectability of cryptic and aposematic frogs	8
Unlike a virgin: a meta-analytical review of female mating status in studies of female mate choice	8
Silence is sexy: soundscape complexity alters mate choice in túngara frogs	8
Identification of seminal proteins related to the inhibition of mate searching in female crickets	8
Experimental shelter-switching shows shelter type alters predation on caterpillars (Hesperiidae)	8
Temporally variable predation risk and fear retention in Trinidadian guppies	8
The functional role of sibling aggression and “best of a bad job” strategies in cichlid juveniles	8
Vocal recognition suggests premating isolation between lineages of a lekking hummingbird	7
Drivers of alloparental provisioning of fledglings in a colonially breeding bird	7
Phenotypic flexibility in background-mediated color change in sticklebacks	7
Does brain size affect mate choice? An experimental examination in pygmy halfbeaks	7
Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species	7
Complex effects of helper relatedness on female extrapair reproduction in a cooperative breeder	7
Daily protein prioritization and long-term nutrient balancing in a dietary generalist, the blue monkey	7
Photoperiod and rainfall are associated with seasonal shifts in social structure in a songbird	7
Population differences in the effect of context on personality in an invasive lizard	7
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	7
Social partners and temperature jointly affect morning foraging activity of small birds in winter	7
Anthropogenic noise alters parental behavior and nestling developmental patterns, but not fledging condition	7
Smart mating: the cognitive ability of females influences their preference for male cognitive ability	7
Determinants of offspring sex in kangaroos: a test of multiple hypotheses	7
Separate and combined effects of boat noise and a live crab predator on mussel valve gape behavior	7
Acorn woodpeckers vocally discriminate current and former group members from nongroup members	7
Density-dependent individual variation in male attractiveness in a wild field cricket	7
Higher ultraviolet skin reflectance signals submissiveness in the anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos	7
Cost of an elaborate trait: a trade-off between attracting females and maintaining a clean ornament	7
Heterogenous effects of father and mother age on offspring development	7
Multiple constraints on urban bird communication: both abiotic and biotic noise shape songs in cities	7
Out in the open: behavior’s effect on predation risk and thermoregulation by aposematic caterpillars	7
Female mate preferences do not predict male sexual signals across populations	7
Wild zebra finches are attracted towards acoustic cues from conspecific social groups	7
Size-dependent aggression towards kin in a cannibalistic species	7
Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure	7
The conspecific avoidance strategies of adult female-calf humpback whales	7
Context-dependent coloration of prey and predator decision making in contrasting light environments	7
Genetic inference of the mating system of free-ranging domestic dogs	7
Past agricultural land use affects multiple facets of ungulate antipredator behavior	6
Evidence for morph-specific substrate choice in a green-brown polymorphic grasshopper	6
Harvester ant nest architecture is more strongly affected by intrinsic than extrinsic factors	6
Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire	6
Mutual mate preferences and assortative mating in relation to a carotenoid-based color trait in blue tits	6
Contrasting parental color morphs increase regularity of prey deliveries in an African raptor	6
Natural and anthropogenic noise increase vigilance and decrease foraging behaviors in song sparrows	6
Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals	6
Variance in lifetime reproductive success of male polar bears	6
The mere presence of cuckoos in breeding area alters egg-ejection decisions in Daurian redstarts	6
The role of boundary length and adjacent patch contrast in guppy mate choice	6
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	6
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather	6
The influence of maternal glucocorticoids on offspring phenotype in high- and low-risk environments	6
Novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior and hunger at different biological levels of analysis	6
Males benefit personally from family life: evidence from a wild burying beetle population	6
Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras	6
Testing the niche differentiation hypothesis in wild capuchin monkeys with polymorphic color vision	6

Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore	6
Habitat choice versus habitat transformation in a nest-building fish: which matters most?	6
Increased male mating success in the presence of prey and rivals in a sexually cannibalistic mantis	6
Choice of nest attributes as a frontline defense against brood parasitism	6
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor	6
Shoaling in the Trinidadian guppy: costs, benefits, and plasticity in response to an ambush predator	6
Ecology of fear and its effect on seed dispersal by a neotropical rodent	6
Power and punishment influence negotiations over parental care	6
Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	6
Differential parasitism of native and invasive widow spider egg sacs	6