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1. Behavioral type–environment correlations in the field: a study of three-spined stickleback

Author:
Pearish, Simon; Hostert, Lauren; Bell, Alison M.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 765-774
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
fish; microhabitats; phenotypic plasticity; rivers
Abstract:
... Behavioral type–environment correlations occur when specific behavioral types of individuals are more common in certain environments. Behavioral type–environment correlations can be generated by several different mechanisms that are probably very common such as niche construction and phenotypic plasticity. Moreover, behavioral type–environment correlations have important ecological and evolutionar ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1500-2

2. Brood-care experience, nursing performance, and neural development in the ant Pheidole dentata

Author:
Muscedere, Mario L.; Djermoun, Anisa; Traniello, James F. A.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 775-784
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Pheidole; adults; brain; dopamine; neurodevelopment; ontogeny; serotonin; social insects
Abstract:
... Social insect workers mature behaviorally and physiologically with increasing age, generally transitioning from or adding new tasks to their existing repertoire of within-nest nursing tasks. As adult minor workers of the ant Pheidole dentata age, they attend to brood more frequently and nurse more efficiently, perform a broader array of tasks, and undergo myological and neural development. Because ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1501-1

3. Colony take-over and brood survival in temporary social parasites of the ant genus Formica

Author:
Chernenko, Anton; Vidal-Garcia, Marta; Helanterä, Heikki; Sundström, Liselotte
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 727-735
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Formica fusca; eggs; hosts; males; parasites; progeny; pupation; risk; social parasitism
Abstract:
... Parasites reduce host fitness, and so instigate counter adaptations by their hosts. In temporary social parasitism, usurpers must not only enter the colony unharmed, but also have their eggs reared by the host workers. We introduced parasitic Formica lugubris and Formica aquilonia queens into queen right and orphaned fragments of three host species, Formica cinerea, Formica picea and Formica fusca ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1496-7

4. Communal nesting in an ‘asocial’ mammal: social thermoregulation among spatially dispersed kin

Author:
Williams, Cory T.; Gorrell, Jamieson C.; Lane, Jeffrey E.; McAdam, Andrew G.; Humphries, Murray M.; Boutin, Stan
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 757-763
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus; females; heat production; kin selection; lactation; nesting; nests; population structure; social behavior; spring; squirrels; thermoregulation; winter
Abstract:
... Communal nesting can help defray the high cost of endothermic heat production in cold environments, but such social behavior is generally thought to be incompatible with the persistent defense of exclusive territories in typically ‘asocial’ animals. We examined the propensity for communal nesting in female red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), which maintain individual year-round territories, t ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1499-4

5. Dissecting the mechanisms underlying old male mating advantage in a butterfly

Author:
Karl, Isabell; Heuskin, Stéphanie; Fischer, Klaus
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 837-849
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Bicyclus anynana; butterflies; flight; males; pheromone blends; sex pheromones
Abstract:
... Selection is expected to maximize an individual’s own genetic reward regardless of the potential fitness consequences for its sexual partners, which may cause sexual conflict. Although performance in holometabolous insects typically diminishes with age, old male mating advantage has been documented in a few species. Whether this pattern arises from female preference for older males based on, e.g., ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1507-8

6. Evolution of mating systems and sexual size dimorphism in North American cyprinids

Author:
Pyron, M.; Pitcher, T. E.; Jacquemin, S. J.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 747-756
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Cyprinidae; body size; dimorphism; females; fish; males; mating systems; models; phylogeny; spawning; sperm competition; testes
Abstract:
... Mating systems evolve with sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in many animals. Mating systems with males larger than females occur when males compete for female access or guard territories, while mating systems with group mating tend to occur in species where females are the same size or larger than males. In addition to variation in SSD with mating system, sperm competition varies among mating systems ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1498-5

7. Gray tree frogs, Hyla versicolor, give lower-frequency aggressive calls in more escalated contests

Author:
Reichert, Michael S.; Gerhardt, H. Carl
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 795-804
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Hyla versicolor; amphibians; animal communication; females; males; motivation
Abstract:
... As animal contests escalate, variation in the performance of aggressive signaling behaviors can give important insights into contest dynamics. In anuran amphibians, males of numerous species utilize distinctive aggressive vocalizations during disputes over calling spaces. Little is known, however, about the causes and consequences of variation in aggressive-call characteristics. We analyzed record ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1503-z

8. Habitat selection increases the isolating effect of habitat fragmentation on the gopher tortoise

Author:
McCoy, Earl D.; Basiotis, Katherine A.; Connor, Kevin M.; Mushinsky, Henry R.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 815-821
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Gopherus polyphemus; avoidance behavior; canopy; habitat fragmentation; habitats; landscapes; monitoring; tortoises; trees; weeds; Florida
Abstract:
... Habitat selection requires choice, which differentiates it from habitat use, and choice, in turn, is dependent upon the responses of organisms to the environmental, social, and other cues that they perceive. Habitat selection by the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) was investigated by translocating tortoises and monitoring their movements within two sites in central Florida. The first site su ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1505-x

9. Hunted hunters? Effect of group size on predation risk and growth in the Australian subsocial crab spider Diaea ergandros

Author:
Unglaub, Bianca; Ruch, Jasmin; Herberstein, Marie E.; Schneider, Jutta M.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 785-794
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Araneae; Diptera; feeding behavior; foods; group effect; group size; mortality; nests; predation; predators; risk; surveys
Abstract:
... A reduced predation risk is considered to be a major adaptive advantage of sociality. While most studies are concerned with non-predatory prey species, group-living predators are likely to face similar threats from higher-order predators. We studied the relationship between group size and predation risk in the subsocial crab spider Diaea ergandros by testing predictions from theoretical models inc ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1502-0

10. Is there a different response to winds during migration between soaring and flapping raptors? An example with the Montagu’s harrier and the lesser kestrel

Author:
Limiñana, Ruben; Romero, Marta; Mellone, Ugo; Urios, Vicente
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 823-835
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Circus; Falco naumanni; adults; birds of prey; breeding; flight; migratory behavior; spring; telemetry; wind
Abstract:
... During migrations, birds have to cope with varying meteorological conditions, which shape their migratory routes and affect their performance. Amongst these, wind is the main meteorological agent influencing behaviour of birds in their migration journeys. Here we analyze the effect of winds during migrations of adult individuals of two raptor species tracked with satellite telemetry, the Montagu’s ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1506-9

11. Multi-year lactation and its consequences in Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)

Author:
van Noordwijk, Maria A.; Willems, Erik P.; Utami Atmoko, Sri Suci; Kuzawa, Christopher W.; van Schaik, Carel P.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 805-814
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Pongo pygmaeus; conception; energy intake; females; food availability; foods; infant development; late lactation; mammals; milk; milk consumption; mothers; nutrient content; progeny; suckling; weaning
Abstract:
... In most mammals, females pay for reproduction by dramatically increasing net energy intake from conception to mid- or late lactation. To do this, they time their reproductive events in relation to environmental cycles so that periods of peak food availability coincide with peak demand or are used to build energy stores. This timing is not possible in species with slow development in which lactatio ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1504-y

12. Parent-absent signalling of need and its consequences for sibling competition in the barn swallow

Author:
Romano, Andrea; Boncoraglio, Giuseppe; Rubolini, Diego; Saino, Nicola
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 851-859
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Hirundo rustica; acoustics; food deprivation; food intake; foods; parents; progeny; satiety; siblings
Abstract:
... In species with parental care, competition among siblings for access to limited parental resources is common. Sibling competition can be mediated by begging behaviour, a suite of different visual and acoustic displays by which offspring solicit parental care. These are mostly addressed to the parents upon food provisioning, but can also be performed in the absence of the attending parents. This so ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1508-7

13. Risk vs. reward: how predators and prey respond to aging olfactory cues

Author:
Bytheway, Jenna P.; Carthey, Alexandra J. R.; Banks, Peter B.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 715-725
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Rattus; odors; predators; rats; risk; smell; temporal variation
Abstract:
... Many animals use olfaction to find food and avoid predators, and must negotiate environments containing odors of varying compositions, strengths, and ages to distinguish useful cues from background noise. Temporal variation in odor cues (i.e., “freshness”) seems an obvious way that animals could distinguish cues, yet there is little experimental evidence for this phenomenon. Fresh cues provide a m ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1494-9

14. The benefit of obligate versus facultative strategies in a shrimp–goby mutualism

Author:
Lyons, Patrick J.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 737-745
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Gobiidae; burrows; coevolution; fish; foraging; mutualism; predation; predators; shrimp
Abstract:
... Obligate mutualists are predicted to benefit more from mutualism than facultative mutualists and harbor traits that help derive this extra benefit. I tested these predictions with a shrimp–goby mutualism. Individual shrimp (Alpheus floridanus) construct burrows that are shared with individual gobiid fishes that warn shrimp when emergence from burrows is unsafe. The benefit to gobies is refuge from ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1497-6

15. Three-dimensional barricading of a predatory trap reduces predation and enhances prey capture

Author:
Blamires, Sean J.; Hou, Chueh; Chen, Lin-Fei; Liao, Chen-Pan; Tso, I-Min
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.5 pp. 709-714
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Araneae; moths; predation; predators; silk; webs
Abstract:
... Animal structures come at material, energetic, time, and expression costs. Some orb-web spiders add three-dimensional barrier structures to their webs, but many do not. Predator protection is considered to be the principal benefit of adding these structures. Accordingly, it remains paradoxical why some orb-web spiders might construct the barriers while others do not. Here, we experimentally determ ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-013-1493-x