Animal Behavior and Reproduction
This cluster of papers explores the evolutionary ecology of animal behavior and traits, focusing on topics such as phenotypic plasticity, natural selection, evolutionary dynamics, mate choice, reproductive strategies, genetic variation, adaptive evolution, life history trade-offs, and ecological interactions.
Papers listed on taxonomy pages are the top few works per node from the OpenAlex snapshot. That list is not exhaustive and is not an endorsement. The topic map and the journal registry remain separate: there is still no authoritative topic-to-venue or topic-to-organization edge. Search is a lexical lookup, not a claim that a venue publishes a topic.
Most cited
- Behavioral decisions made under the risk of predation: a review and prospectus
- Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers
- On Optimal Use of a Patchy Environment
- Mating systems, philopatry and dispersal in birds and mammals
- Heritable True Fitness and Bright Birds: A Role for Parasites?
- Adaptive versus non‐adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments
Most recent
- Antipredation escape behaviour differs between fighter and sneaker males in the two-spotted spider mite
- Plasticity in collective behaviour helps fish shoals mitigate limited visual information from water turbidity
- Correlated evolution of exaggerated genitalic structures in the minute litter bug Nannocoris Reuter (Hemiptera: Schizopteridae)
- To what extent does facultative scavenging contribute to the persistence of predatory species?
- Females of a socially polyandrous, sex-role reversed shorebird visit multiple breeding sites within a single season
- Beyond planktonic encounter theory: a Rotimer-based model of benthic mate search in the rotifer Euchlanis dilatata