Reading list

BSCI 360/708B Reading List 2009

The following articles will be discussed each Friday. Click on the authors' name to download the file to your computer to read or print. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to display these files. To download Acrobat Reader click here.

Date

Title

Leader

Sept 4
Wiley, RH 2003 Is there an ideal behavioural experiment? Animal Behaviour 66: 585–588

JW, BA

11

Tinghitella, RM and M Zuk. 2009 Asymmetric mating preferences accommodated the rapid evolutionary loss of a sexual signal. Evolution 63:2087-2098

18

Forstmeier, W., Burger, C., Temnow, K. and S. Deregnaucourt 2009 The genetic basis of zebra finch vocalizations. Evolution 63:2114-2130.

25

Thornton, A and A. Malapert. 2009. Experimental evidence for social transmission of food acquisition techniques in wild meerkats. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 78: 255-264.

Burkart, JM, A. Strasser and M. Foglia. 2009. Trade-offs between social learning and individual innovativeness in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 77: 1291-1301.

Oct

2

Henningsson, P, H. Karlsson, J. Backman, T. Alerstam, and A. Hedenstrom. 2009. Flight speeds of swifts (Apus apus): seasonal differences smaller than expected. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 276: 2395-2401.

Fusani, L., M. Cardinale, C. Carere and W. Goyman. 2009. Stopover decision during migration: physiological conditions predict nocturnal restlessness in wild passerines. BIOLOGY LETTERS. 5: 302-305.

9

Ramseyer, A, A. Boissy, B. Dumont and B. Thierry. 2009. Decision making in group departures of sheep is a continuous process. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 78: 71-81.

Lusseau, D, and L. Conradt. 2009. The emergence of unshared consensus decisions in bottlenose dolphins. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY. 63: 1067-1077.

16

Rieucau, G, WL Vickery, and GJ Doucet. A patch use model to separate effects of foraging costs on giving-up densities: an experiment with white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY. 63: 891-897.

23

Sridhar, H, G. Beauchamp, K. Shanker. 2009. Why do birds participate in mixed-species foraging flocks? A large-scale synthesis. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 78: 337-347

30

Bissonnette, A; de Vries, H; van Schaik, CP. 2009. Coalitions in male Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus: strength, success and rules of thumb. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 78 (2): 329-335

Tibbetts, EA; Shorter, JR. 2009. How do fighting ability and nest value influence usurpation contests in Polistes wasps? BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 63 (9): 1377-1385

Nov

6

Griesser, M. 2009. Mobbing calls signal predator category in a kin group-living bird species. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 276: 2887-2892.

13

Bilde, T; Foged, A; Schilling, N; et al. 2009. Postmating Sexual Selection Favors Males That Sire Offspring with Low Fitness SCIENCE, 324 (5935): 1705-1706

Bonanno, VL; Schulte-Hostedde, AI. 2009. Sperm competition and ejaculate investment in red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 63 (6): 835-846

20

Ryder, TB; Parker, PG; Blake, JG; et al. 2009. It takes two to tango: reproductive skew and social correlates of male mating success in a lek-breeding bird. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 276 (1666): 2377-2384

Young, KA; Genner, MJ; Joyce, DA; et al. 2009. Hotshots, hot spots, and female preference: exploring lek formation models with a bower-building cichlid fish. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, 20 (3): 609-615

Date		Title	Leader
Sept	4	Wiley, RH 2003 Is there an ideal behavioural experiment? Animal Behaviour 66: 585–588	JW, BA
	11	Tinghitella, RM and M Zuk. 2009 Asymmetric mating preferences accommodated the rapid evolutionary loss of a sexual signal. Evolution 63:2087-2098
	18	Forstmeier, W., Burger, C., Temnow, K. and S. Deregnaucourt 2009 The genetic basis of zebra finch vocalizations. Evolution 63:2114-2130.
	25	Thornton, A and A. Malapert. 2009. Experimental evidence for social transmission of food acquisition techniques in wild meerkats. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 78: 255-264. Burkart, JM, A. Strasser and M. Foglia. 2009. Trade-offs between social learning and individual innovativeness in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 77: 1291-1301.
Oct	2	Henningsson, P, H. Karlsson, J. Backman, T. Alerstam, and A. Hedenstrom. 2009. Flight speeds of swifts (Apus apus): seasonal differences smaller than expected. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 276: 2395-2401. Fusani, L., M. Cardinale, C. Carere and W. Goyman. 2009. Stopover decision during migration: physiological conditions predict nocturnal restlessness in wild passerines. BIOLOGY LETTERS. 5: 302-305.
	9	Ramseyer, A, A. Boissy, B. Dumont and B. Thierry. 2009. Decision making in group departures of sheep is a continuous process. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 78: 71-81. Lusseau, D, and L. Conradt. 2009. The emergence of unshared consensus decisions in bottlenose dolphins. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY. 63: 1067-1077.
	16	Rieucau, G, WL Vickery, and GJ Doucet. A patch use model to separate effects of foraging costs on giving-up densities: an experiment with white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY. 63: 891-897.
	23	Sridhar, H, G. Beauchamp, K. Shanker. 2009. Why do birds participate in mixed-species foraging flocks? A large-scale synthesis. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 78: 337-347
	30	Bissonnette, A; de Vries, H; van Schaik, CP. 2009. Coalitions in male Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus: strength, success and rules of thumb. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 78 (2): 329-335 Tibbetts, EA; Shorter, JR. 2009. How do fighting ability and nest value influence usurpation contests in Polistes wasps? BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 63 (9): 1377-1385
Nov	6	Griesser, M. 2009. Mobbing calls signal predator category in a kin group-living bird species. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 276: 2887-2892.
	13	Bilde, T; Foged, A; Schilling, N; et al. 2009. Postmating Sexual Selection Favors Males That Sire Offspring with Low Fitness SCIENCE, 324 (5935): 1705-1706 Bonanno, VL; Schulte-Hostedde, AI. 2009. Sperm competition and ejaculate investment in red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 63 (6): 835-846
	20	Ryder, TB; Parker, PG; Blake, JG; et al. 2009. It takes two to tango: reproductive skew and social correlates of male mating success in a lek-breeding bird. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 276 (1666): 2377-2384 Young, KA; Genner, MJ; Joyce, DA; et al. 2009. Hotshots, hot spots, and female preference: exploring lek formation models with a bower-building cichlid fish. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, 20 (3): 609-615