Behavioral Ecology

Articles:

John M. McNamara, Alasdair I. Houston, Zoltán Barta, and José-Luis Osorno

Should young ever be better off with one parent than with two?
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 301-310; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.301 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Markus Öst, Ron Ydenberg, Mikael Kilpi, and Kai Lindström

Condition and coalition formation by brood-rearing common eider females
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 311-317; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.311 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Nicola Saino, Chiara Suffritti, Roberta Martinelli, Diego Rubolini, and Anders Pape Møller

Immune response covaries with corticosterone plasma levels under experimentally stressful conditions in nestling barn swallows (Hirundo rustica)
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 318-325; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.318 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Emma J. A. Cunningham

Female mate preferences and subsequent resistance to copulation in the mallard
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 326-333; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.326 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Alicia Mathis and Douglas P. Chivers

Overriding the oddity effect in mixed-species aggregations: group choice by armored and nonarmored prey
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 334-339; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.334 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Jérémy Mazuc, Olivier Chastel, and Gabriele Sorci

No evidence for differential maternal allocation to offspring in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 340-346; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.340 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

C. W. W. Pirk, P. Neumann, and F. L. W. Ratnieks

Cape honeybees, Apis mellifera capensis, police worker-laid eggs despite the absence of relatedness benefits
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 347-352; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.347 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Barbara Holzer, Alain Jacot, and Martin W.G. Brinkhof

Condition-dependent signaling affects male sexual attractiveness in field crickets, Gryllus campestris
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 353-359; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.353 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Janis L. Dickinson

Male share of provisioning is not influenced by actual or apparent loss of paternity in western bluebirds
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 360-366; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.360 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Lee Alan Dugatkin and Ryan L. Earley

Group fusion: the impact of winner, loser, and bystander effects on hierarchy formation in large groups
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 367-373; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.367 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Maria Lissåker, Charlotta Kvarnemo, and Ola Svensson

Effects of a low oxygen environment on parental effort and filial cannibalism in the male sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 374-381; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.374 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

János Török, Gergely Hegyi, and László Zsolt Garamszegi

Depigmented wing patch size is a condition-dependent indicator of viability in male collared flycatchers
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 382-388; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.382 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Klaudia Witte and Kirsten Ueding

Sailfin molly females (Poecilia latipinna) copy the rejection of a male
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 389-395; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.389 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Valerie J. Debuse, Julian T. Addison, and John D. Reynolds

Effects of breeding site density on competition and sexual selection in the European lobster
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 396-402; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.396 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Francisco Valera, Herbert Hoi, and Anton Kristín

Male shrikes punish unfaithful females
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 403-408; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.403 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

William E. Cooper, Jr

Correlated evolution of herbivory and food chemical discrimination in iguanian and ambush foraging lizards
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 409-416; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.409 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Tyler Dunn and Miriam H. Richards

When to bee social: interactions among environmental constraints, incentives, guarding, and relatedness in a facultatively social carpenter bee
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 417-424; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.417 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Elaina M. Tuttle

Alternative reproductive strategies in the white-throated sparrow: behavioral and genetic evidence
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 425-432; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.425 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Guthrie S. Zimmerman, William S. LaHaye, and R. J. Gutiérrez

Empirical support for a despotic distribution in a California spotted owl population
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 433-437; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.433 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Michael D. Jennions and Anders Pape Møller

A survey of the statistical power of research in behavioral ecology and animal behavior
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 438-445; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.438 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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Nick Colegrave and Graeme D. Ruxton

Confidence intervals are a more useful complement to nonsignificant tests than are power calculations
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 446-447; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.446 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Lock Rogers

Odds-playing and the timing of sex change in uncertain environments: you bet your wrasse
Behavioral Ecology 2003 14: 447-450; doi:10.1093/beheco/14.3.447 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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