Behavioral Ecology

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.)
ArticleCitations
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos65
Should I stay or should I go? Behavioral adjustments of fur seals related to foraging success39
Corrigendum to: Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient33
An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk24
The value ofnottrusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk23
Expression of Concern: Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp21
Inter-sexual phenotypic divergence is correlated with habitat structure in an invasive lizard20
North American barn swallows pair, mate, and interact assortatively20
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder20
Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation20
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 predator20
Social pairing in the absence of reproductive senescence in a socially monogamous songbird20
Predator activity and scent cues influence white-tailed deer behavior in a multi-predator landscape19
Heterogeneous responsiveness to environmental stimuli16
Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird16
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers16
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal16
Crocodile social environments dictated by male philopatry16
Within-flock heterogeneity in exploration affects flock behavior in a highly gregarious bird16
Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice16
Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate15
Chronic predation risk affects prey escape abilities through behavioral and physiological changes15
Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators15
Predation risk elicits a negative relationship between boldness and growth in Helisoma snails14
Public information use—are invasive demersal fish species more effective than natives?14
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 breeder14
To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen14
Silver spoons, reproduction, and growth catch-up in eastern Grey kangaroos14
Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp13
Adult sex ratio and male body condition affect alternative reproductive tactics in a spider13
Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore13
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys13
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime13
Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population13
Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays13
Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect13
Patterns of extra-territorial nest-box visits in a songbird suggest a role in extrapair mating13
Female state and condition-dependent chemical signaling revealed by male choice of silk trails12
The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes12
Correction to: Does developmental environment affect sexual conflict? An experimental test in the seed beetle12
Efficiency of antlion trap design and larval behavior in capture success12
Expression of trematode-induced zombie-ant behavior is strongly associated with temperature12
Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors12
Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals12
Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator11
Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice11
Perception and predation of ladybird spiders and other red-and-black arthropods by 3 predators11
The effect of heterospecific and conspecific competition on inter-individual differences in tungara frog tadpole (Engystomops pustulosus) behavior10
Whoever their partner, female blue tits breed the same10
A reinvestigation of cognitive styles in sticklebacks: decision success varies with behavioral type10
A field experiment reveals reciprocal effects of host personality and parasitism in wild lizards10
Male mating tactics are associated with distinct female cognitive-behavioral profiles in 4 poeciliids10
Effects of danger cues on mating interactions are size dependent in freshwater crayfish10
An island bird community retains anti-predator behavior toward a locally extinct nest predator10
Housework or vigilance? Bilbies alter their burrowing activity under threat of predation by feral cats10
The evolution of brood parasitism from host egg predation10
Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality10
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 crows10
Not all who wander are lost: prospecting and settlement of male floaters in the spotless starling10
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments9
Resource availability, competitor abundance and specialization affect competition among bumblebees9
Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls9
Declining food availability alters vocal behavior of a nomadic finch9
Defensive coloration as a multivariate optimum: a comment on Postema et al9
Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish9
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males9
Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird9
Grow up, be persistent, and stay focused: keys for solving foraging problems by free-ranging possums9
Effects of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: is the web structure constrained by physiological trade-offs?9
Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism9
Correction to: Black and orange coloration predict success during male–male competition in the guppy9
Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator9
Risking infanticide or losing precious time? Delay of reproduction in a short-lived mammal9
Light received by embryos promotes postnatal junior phenotypes in a seabird9
Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population9
Failed despots and the equitable distribution of fitness in a subsidized species9
Temporal dissonance between group size and its benefits requires whole-of-lifecycle measurements9
Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in 
post-war Finland8
Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources8
Sex allocation is color morph-specific and associated with fledging condition in a wild bird8
Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness8
Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient8
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor8
Clutch attendance and call parameters are linked to mating success in a glassfrog with paternal care8
Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history8
Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths8
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather8
Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish8
Foraging in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in movement patterns of a tropical sand-bubbler crab8
Flamingos as ecosystem engineers: flock size and foraging behaviors linked to nutrient availability8
Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with sperm aggregate quality in Peromyscus mice7
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation7
Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al7
Correction to: Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird7
Acoustic effects complement visual displays of Great Bowerbird bowers7
Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider7
Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care7
Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite7
Habitat change alters the expression and efficiency of a female ornament7
Geographic differences in individual recognition linked with social but not nonsocial cognition7
Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator7
Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire7
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 output7
Common cuckoos do not mimic the size and shape of host eggs7
Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time6
Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience6
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song6
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite6
Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish6
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.6
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage6
Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness6
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations6
Sexual selection: competition for resources provided by mating partners6
A data editor for behavioral ecology6
Song varies with latitude, climate, and species richness in a Neotropical bird6
Perceived risk structures the space use of competing carnivores6
Sexual selection in sharper focus: A comment on Janicke, Shuker and Kvarnemo6
Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population6
Effects of chronic and acute predation risk on sexual ornamentation and mating preferences6
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time6
Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species6
Reduced fitness of secondary females in a polygynous species: a 32-yr study of Savannah sparrows6
Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes6
When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color6
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 matters6
Torpor use in response to predation risk in a small, free-living bird6
No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion6
Condition- and context-dependent alternative reproductive tactic in Drosophila prolongata6
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