Prey availability influences the effect of boldness on reproductive success in a mammalian predatorBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Tập 77 - Trang 1-11 - 2023
Jeanne Clermont, Charline Couchoux, Sandra Lai, Dominique Berteaux
Boldness is an important trait in wild populations, and among-individual
differences can link to individual fitness. The strength and direction of
relationships between behavioral and life-history traits may however vary
according to environmental conditions, where fluctuating selection acting on
behavioral traits contributes to the maintenance of personality differences. We
explored sources of va... hiện toàn bộ
Males and females evolve riskier traits in populations with eavesdropping parasitoidsBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Tập 72 - Trang 1-11 - 2018
Oliver M. Beckers, William E. Wagner
Predation and/or parasitism often limits the evolution of conspicuous male
traits and female preferences because conspicuous traits can attract predators
or parasites and it is costly for females to associate with males that attract
predators or parasites. As a result, males and females in high-risk populations
are expected to evolve safer mating behaviors compared to individuals from
low-risk pop... hiện toàn bộ
Socially induced delayed primiparity in brown bears Ursus arctosBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Tập 61 - Trang 1-8 - 2006
Ole-Gunnar Støen, Andreas Zedrosser, Per Wegge, Jon E. Swenson
Reproductive suppression through behavioral or physiological means is common in
group-living and cooperative breeding mammals, but to our knowledge it has not
been shown in wild large carnivores other than those with a clear form of social
organization. Brown bear (Ursus arctos) females form matrilinear assemblages
with related females using a common and largely exclusive area. Behavioral
reproduc... hiện toàn bộ
Resource abundance and sex allocation by queen and workers in the harvester ant, Messor pergandeiBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Tập 51 - Trang 548-556 - 2002
Paul J. Ode, Steven W. Rissing
The degree to which queens and workers control how limiting resources are split
between reproductive males and females is central to the study of sex allocation
in the eusocial Hymenoptera. We investigated the effect of resource availability
on sex allocation decisions by both queens and workers in the ant Messor
pergandei. We conducted the following field manipulations of resource
availability: f... hiện toàn bộ
How colony growth affects forager intrusion between neighboring harvester ant coloniesBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Tập 31 - Trang 417-427 - 1992
Deborah M. Gordon
Colonies of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus, adjust the direction and
length of foraging trails in response to the foraging behavior of their
conspecific neighbors. In the absence of any interaction with its neighbor, a
mature colony expands its foraging range at a rate of 0.85 ± 0.15 m per day.
Exclusion experiments show that if a colony is prevented from using its foraging
trails, the n... hiện toàn bộ
No reproductive character displacement in male advertisement signals of Hyla japonica in relation to the sympatric H. suweonensisBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Tập 67 - Trang 1345-1355 - 2013
Soyeon Park, Gilsang Jeong, Yikweon Jang
Reproductive interaction between closely related taxa may leave a distinctive
signature in which populations of interacting taxa are more dissimilar in
sympatry than in allopatry. An ideal condition for such a pattern of
reproductive character displacement (RCD) may occur when a population has
limited gene flow and experiences strong selection pressure, exerted by an
interacting taxon in areas of ... hiện toàn bộ
Advertisement call duration indicates good genes for offspring feeding rate in gray tree frogs (Hyla versicolor)Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Tập 49 - Trang 150-156 - 2001
Grace V. Doty, A. M. Welch
Indicator or ”good genes” models of sexual selection predict that mating
preferences allow females to choose mates that are genetically superior. Female
gray tree frogs (Hyla versicolor) prefer male advertisement calls of long call
duration, which can be indicators of enhanced offspring growth performance. We
tested the effects of father’s call duration and the presence of a caged
predator (dragon... hiện toàn bộ