Behavioral Ecology

Recent Papers

State-Dependent Decision-Making by Predators and Its Consequences for Mimicry

Thomas G. Aubier and Thomas N. Sherratt

Spite and the Geometry of Negative Relatedness

Philip G. Madgwick

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Madgwick.html

Host Plant Choice Determined by Reproductive Interference between Closely Related Butterflies

Naota Ohsaki, Masaaki Ohata, Yoshibumi Sato, and Mark D. Rausher

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Ohsaki.html

Relative Brain Size Is Predicted by the Intensity of Intrasexual Competition in Frogs

Chun Lan Mai (麦春兰), Wen Bo Liao (廖文波), Stefan Lüpold, and Alexander Kotrschal

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Mai.html

FREE

Metabolic Rate Interacts with Resource Availability to Determine Individual Variation in Microhabitat Use in the Wild

Sonya K. Auer, Ronald D. Bassar, Daniel Turek, Graeme J. Anderson, Simon McKelvey, John D. Armstrong, Keith H. Nislow, Helen K. Downie, Thomas A. J. Morgan, Darryl McLennan, and Neil B. Metcalfe

FREE, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS ADDRESS

What Do Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Have in Common? The Organism in the Middle

Ellen D. Ketterson

The Ecology of Individual Differences Empirically Applied to Space-Use and Movement Tactics

Quinn M. R. Webber, Michel P. Laforge, Maegwin Bonar, Alec L. Robitaille, Christopher Hart, Sana Zabihi-Seissan, and Eric Vander Wal

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Webber.html

Maternal Investment, Ecological Lifestyle, and Brain Evolution in Sharks and Rays

Christopher G. Mull, Kara E. Yopak, and Nicholas K. Dulvy

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/June-Mull.html

Age-Related Brood Parasitism and Egg Rejection in Magpie Hosts

Juan Gabriel Martínez, Mercedes Molina-Morales, Marta Precioso, and Jesús Miguel Avilés

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Martinez.html

FREE

Reinforcement Learning Theory Reveals the Cognitive Requirements for Solving the Cleaner Fish Market Task

Andrés E. Quiñones, Olof Leimar, Arnon Lotem, and Redouan Bshary

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Quinones.html

Safety Cues Can Give Prey More Valuable Information Than Danger Cues

Barney Luttbeg, Maud C. O. Ferrari, Daniel T. Blumstein, and Douglas P. Chivers

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Luttbeg.html

Note

Early Sibling Conflict May Ultimately Benefit the Family

Alyssa Laney Smith, Daniel Z. Atwater, and Ragan M. Callaway

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Smith.html

Within-Individual Canalization Contributes to Age-Related Increases in Trait Repeatability: A Longitudinal Experiment in Red Knots

Eva M. A. Kok, Joseph B. Burant, Anne Dekinga, Petra Manche, Darren Saintonge, Theunis Piersma, and Kimberley J. Mathot

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Kok.html

Individual Variation in the Social Plasticity of Water Dragons

Kasha Strickland and Céline H. Frère

Assessing Behavioral Associations in a Hybrid Zone through Social Network Analysis: Complex Assortative Behaviors Structure Associations in a Hybrid Quail Population

David M. Zonana, Jennifer M. Gee, Eli S. Bridge, Michael D. Breed, and Daniel F. Doak

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneZonana.html

Space Use and Leadership Modify Dilution Effects on Optimal Vigilance under Food-Safety Trade-Offs

Rémi Patin, Daniel Fortin, Cédric Sueur, and Simon Chamaillé-Jammes

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanPatin.html

Adaptation

Recent Papers 

A Comparative Test for Divergent Adaptation: Inferring Speciation Drivers from Functional Trait Divergence

Sean A. S. Anderson and Jason T. Weir

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Anderson.html

FREE

Evolution of Reproduction Periods in Seasonal Environments

Zepeng Sun, Kalle Parvinen, Mikko Heino, Johan A. J. Metz, André M. de Roos, and Ulf Dieckmann

Male-Male Competition Causes Parasite-Mediated Sexual Selection for Local Adaptation

Miguel Gómez-Llano, Aaditya Narasimhan, and Erik I. Svensson

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Gomez-Llano.html

The Origin and Spread of Locally Adaptive Seasonal Camouflage in Snowshoe Hares

Matthew R. Jones, L. Scott Mills, Jeffrey D. Jensen, and Jeffrey M. Good

Transformational Mimicry in a Myrmecomorphic Spider

Stano Pekár, Yun-Yun Tsai, and Radek Michalko

Selection and Constraints in the Ecomorphological Adaptive Evolution of the Skull of Living Canidae (Carnivora, Mammalia)

Fabio Andrade Machado

FREE

Metabolic Rate Interacts with Resource Availability to Determine Individual Variation in Microhabitat Use in the Wild

Sonya K. Auer, Ronald D. Bassar, Daniel Turek, Graeme J. Anderson, Simon McKelvey, John D. Armstrong, Keith H. Nislow, Helen K. Downie, Thomas A. J. Morgan, Darryl McLennan, and Neil B. Metcalfe

Survival Benefits of Group Living in a Fluctuating Environment

Sarah Guindre-Parker and Dustin R. Rubenstein

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/June-Guindre-Parker.html

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

The Adaptive Geometry of Trees Revisited

Thomas J. Givnish

Adaptive Maternal Investment in the Wild? Links between Maternal Growth Trajectory and Offspring Size, Growth, and Survival in Contrasting Environments

Tim Burton, Njal Rollinson, Simon McKelvey, David C. Stewart, John D. Armstrong, and Neil B. Metcalfe

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Burton.html

Belowground Competition Can Influence the Evolution of Root Traits

Sara M. Colom and Regina S. Baucom

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Colom.html

SYNTHESIS

Context Dependence of Local Adaptation to Abiotic and Biotic Environments: A Quantitative and Qualitative Synthesis

Ryan D. Briscoe Runquist, Amanda J. Gorton, Jeremy B. Yoder, Nicholas J. Deacon, Jake J. Grossman, Shan Kothari, Marta P. Lyons, Seema N. Sheth, Peter Tiffin, and David A. Moeller

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Briscoe-Runquist.html

SYNTHESIS

Local Adaptation to Biotic Interactions: A Meta-analysis across Latitudes

Anna L. Hargreaves, Rachel M. Germain, Megan Bontrager, Joshua Persi, and Amy L. Angert

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Hargreaves.html

Evolution Transforms Pushed Waves into Pulled Waves

Philip Erm and Ben L. Phillips

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Erm.html

Gene Flow Limits Adaptation along Steep Environmental Gradients

Judith C. Bachmann, Alexandra Jansen van Rensburg, Maria Cortazar-Chinarro, Anssi Laurila, and Josh Van Buskirk

NATURAL HISTORY NOTE

Transitions between the Terrestrial and Epiphytic Habit Drove the Evolution of Seed-Aerodynamic Traits in Orchids

Xu-Li Fan, Guillaume Chomicki, Kai Hao, Qiang Liu, Ying-Ze Xiong, Susanne S. Renner, Jiang-Yun Gao, and Shuang-Quan Huang

ORCIDs: Fan, https://orci

NOTE

Evolutionary Rescue from a Wave of Biological Invasion

J. David Van Dyken

The Evolution of Immigration Strategies Facilitates Niche Expansion by Divergent Adaptation in a Structured Metapopulation Model

Éva Kisdi, Helene C. Weigang, and Mats Gyllenberg

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Kisdi.html

FREE

Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection

Andrew D. Clark, Dominik Deffner, Kevin Laland, John Odling-Smee, and John Endler

FREE

Why Do Phytoplankton Evolve Large Size in Response to Grazing?

Pedro Branco, Martijn Egas, Spencer R. Hall, and Jef Huisman

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Branco.html

Meta-analysis Shows That Rapid Phenotypic Change in Angiosperms in Response to Environmental Change Is Followed by Stasis

Lucas D. Gorné and Sandra Díaz

Introduction to Special Feature on Maladaptation

Understanding Maladaptation by Uniting Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives

Steven P. Brady, Daniel I. Bolnick, Rowan D. H. Barrett, Lauren Chapman, Erika Crispo, Alison M. Derry, Christopher G. Eckert, Dylan J. Fraser, Gregor F. Fussmann, Andrew Gonzalez, Frederic Guichard, Thomas Lamy, Jeffrey Lane, Andrew G. McAdam, Amy E. M. Newman, Antoine Paccard, Bruce Robertson, Gregor Rolshausen, Patricia M. Schulte, Andrew M. Simons, Mark Vellend, and Andrew Hendry

Free Access, Special Feature on Maladaptation

Maladaptive Shifts in Life History in a Changing Environment

Olivier Cotto, Linnea Sandell, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Ophélie Ronce

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugCotto.html

Free Access, Special Feature on Maladaptation

Maladapted Prey Subsidize Predators and Facilitate Range Expansion

Mark C. Urban, Alice Scarpa, Justin M. J. Travis, and Greta Bocedi

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Urban.html

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Seed Masting Causes Fluctuations in Optimum Litter Size and Lag Load in a Seed Predator

Andrew G. McAdam, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, and Jeffrey E. Lane

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Phenotypic Plasticity and Local Adaptation in a Wild Hibernator Evaluated through Reciprocal Translocation

Jeffrey E. Lane, Zenon J. Czenze, Rachel Findlay-Robinson, and Erin Bayne

(In)exhaustible Suppliers for Evolution? Epistatic Selection Tunes the Adaptive Potential of Nongenetic Inheritance

Etienne Rajon and Sylvain Charlat

Pulsed Immigration Events Can Facilitate Adaptation to Harsh Sink Environments

James H. Peniston, Michael Barfield, and Robert D. Holt

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Peniston.html

Phenotype-Environment Matching Predicts Both Positive and Negative Effects of Intraspecific Variation

Christopher J. Dibble and Volker H. W. Rudolf

Biotic Interactions Contribute to the Geographic Range Limit of an Annual Plant: Herbivory and Phenology Mediate Fitness beyond a Range Margin

John W. Benning, Vincent M. Eckhart, Monica A. Geber, and David A. Moeller

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneBenning.html

Adaptive Differences in Circadian Clock Gene Expression Patterns and Photoperiodic Diapause Induction in Nasonia vitripennis

Elena Dalla Benetta, Leo W. Beukeboom, and Louis van de Zande

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneDallaBenetta.html

Free Access, Synthesis

A Practical Guide to the Study of Distribution Limits

Yvonne Willi and Josh Van Buskirk

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneWilli.html

Historical Comment

Revisiting a Key Innovation in Evolutionary Biology: Felsenstein’s “Phylogenies and the Comparative Method”

Raymond B. Huey, Theodore Garland Jr., and Michael Turelli

Free Access

The Evolutionary Ecology of Metamorphosis

Hanna ten Brink, André M. de Roos, and Ulf Dieckmann

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayTenBrink.html

American Society of Naturalists Address

The Snail’s Charm

Kathleen Donohue

Evolutionary Consequences of Sex-Specific Selection in Variable Environments: Four Simple Models Reveal Diverse Evolutionary Outcomes

Tim Connallon, Shefali Sharma, and Colin Olito

Ecological Genetic Conflict: Genetic Architecture Can Shift the Balance between Local Adaptation and Plasticity

Olof Leimar, Sasha R. X. Dall, John M. McNamara, Bram Kuijper, and Peter Hammerstein

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanLeimar.html

Open Access

Biophysical Modeling of Water Economy Can Explain Geographic Gradient of Body Size in Anurans

Sidney F. Gouveia, Rafael P. Bovo, Juan G. Rubalcaba, Fernando Rodrigues Da Silva, Natan M. Maciel, Denis V. Andrade, and Pablo Ariel Martinez

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanGouveia.html

Population Variation, Environmental Gradients, and the Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Defense against Herbivory

Philip G. Hahn, Anurag A. Agrawal, Kira I. Sussman, and John L. Maron

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanHahn.html

American Society of Naturalists Address

From the Past to the Future: Considering the Value and Limits of Evolutionary Prediction

Ruth G. Shaw

Life History

Recent Papers

NATURAL HISTORY NOTE

Experimental Amelioration of Harsh Weather Speeds Growth and Development in a Tropical Montane Songbird

Adam E. Mitchell, Jordan Boersma, Anthonio Anthony, Kanehiro Kitayama, and Thomas E. Martin

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Mitchell.html

A Stochastic Model for Predicting Age and Mass at Maturity of Insects

Geoffrey Legault and Joel G. Kingsolver

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Legault.html

Species Differences in Phenology Shape Coexistence

Christopher Blackford, Rachel M. Germain, and Benjamin Gilbert

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Blackford.html

Parental Age Effects and the Evolution of Senescence

Patrick M. Barks and Robert A. Laird

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Barks.html

Age-Related Brood Parasitism and Egg Rejection in Magpie Hosts

Juan Gabriel Martínez, Mercedes Molina-Morales, Marta Precioso, and Jesús Miguel Avilés

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Martinez.html

Life-History Plasticity and Water-Use Trade-Offs Associated with Drought Resistance in a Clade of California Jewelflowers

Ian S. Pearse, Jessica M. Aguilar, and Sharon Y. Strauss

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Pearse.html

SYNTHESIS

Context Dependence of Local Adaptation to Abiotic and Biotic Environments: A Quantitative and Qualitative Synthesis

Ryan D. Briscoe Runquist, Amanda J. Gorton, Jeremy B. Yoder, Nicholas J. Deacon, Jake J. Grossman, Shan Kothari, Marta P. Lyons, Seema N. Sheth, Peter Tiffin, and David A. Moeller

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Briscoe-Runquist.html

NOTE

The Effects of Body Mass on Immune Cell Concentrations of Mammals

Cynthia J. Downs, Ned A. Dochtermann, Ray Ball, Kirk C. Klasing, and Lynn B. Martin

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Downs.html

Fecundity-Longevity Trade-Off, Vertical Transmission, and Evolution of Virulence in Sterilizing Pathogens

Eva Janoušková and Luděk Berec

FREE

Comparing Life Histories across Taxonomic Groups in Multiple Dimensions: How Mammal-Like Are Insects?

Adam T. Bakewell, Katie E. Davis, Robert P. Freckleton, Nick J. B. Isaac, and Peter J. Mayhew

Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks Predict the Time Course of Rapid Life-History Evolution

David N. Reznick, Ronald D. Bassar, Corey A. Handelsman, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Jeff Arendt, Tim Coulson, Tomos Potter, Emily W. Ruell, Julián Torres-Dowdall, Paul Bentzen, and Joseph Travis

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Reznick.html

A Spatial Perspective on the Phenological Distribution of the Spring Woodland Caterpillar Peak

Jack D. Shutt, Malcolm D. Burgess, and Albert B. Phillimore

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Shutt.html

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Seed Masting Causes Fluctuations in Optimum Litter Size and Lag Load in a Seed Predator

Andrew G. McAdam, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, and Jeffrey E. Lane

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugMcAdam.html

Plastic Senescence in the Honey Bee and the Disposable Soma Theory

Jack da Silva

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-da-Silva.html

Note, Open Access

Generation Time Measures the Trade-Off between Survival and Reproduction in a Life Cycle

Stefano Giaimo and Arne Traulsen

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugGiaimo.html

Note

The Equivocal Mean Age of Parents in a Cohort

François Bienvenu

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBienvenu.html

Environmental Veto Synchronizes Mast Seeding in Four Contrasting Tree Species

Michał Bogdziewicz, Magdalena Żywiec, Josep M. Espelta, Marcos Fernández-Martinez, Rafael Calama, Mateusz Ledwoń, Eliot McIntire, and Elizabeth E. Crone

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBogdziewicz.html

Lifetime Fitness, Sex-Specific Life History, and the Maintenance of a Polyphenism

Alycia C. R. Lackey, Michael P. Moore, Jacqueline Doyle, Nicole Gerlanc, Ashley Hagan, Morgan Geile, Chris Eden, and Howard H. Whiteman

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugLackey.html

Open Access, Special Feature on Maladaptation

Maladaptive Shifts in Life History in a Changing Environment

Olivier Cotto, Linnea Sandell, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Ophélie Ronce

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugCotto.html

Synthesis

Dormancy in Metacommunities

Nathan I. Wisnoski, Mathew A. Leibold, and Jay T. Lennon

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugWisnoski.html

Higher Nest Predation Favors Rapid Fledging at the Cost of Plumage Quality in Nestling Birds

Lea M. Callan, Frank A. La Sorte, Thomas E. Martin, and Vanya G. Rohwer

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayCallan.html

Condition-Dependent Begging Elicits Increased Parental Investment in a Wild Bird Population

E. Keith Bowers, Jonathan B. Jenkins, Alexander J. Mueller, Kelly D. Miller, Charles F. Thompson, and Scott K. Sakaluk

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayBowers.html

Two-Year Bee, or Not Two-Year Bee? How Voltinism Is Affected by Temperature and Season Length in a High-Elevation Solitary Bee

Jessica R. K. Forrest, Regan Cross, and Paul J. CaraDonna

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprForrest.html

Age-Specific Offspring Mortality Economically Tracks Food Abundance in a Piscivorous Seabird

Oscar Vedder, He Zhang, Andreas Dänhardt, and Sandra Bouwhuis

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprVedder.html

Note (an F1000 recommendation as Exceptional)

Shifting Vital Rate Correlations Alter Predicted Population Responses to Increasingly Variable Environments

David T. Iles, Robert F. Rockwell, and David N. Koons

Queen Longevity and Fecundity Affect Conflict with Workers over Resource Inheritance in a Social Insect

Edward J. Almond, Timothy J. Huggins, Liam P. Crowther, Joel D. Parker, and Andrew F. G. Bourke

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebAlmond.html