Journal of Animal Ecology

© British Ecological Society

Cover image for Vol. 81 Issue 1

January 2012

Volume 81, Issue 1

Pages 1–305

  1. In Focus

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
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      Transient host–parasitoid dynamics illuminate the practice of biological pest control (pages 1–3)

      Nicholas J. Mills

      Article first published online: 8 DEC 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01932.x

  2. Trophic interactions

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
    1. Trophic links between functional groups of arable plants and beetles are stable at a national scale (pages 4–13)

      David R. Brooks, Jonathan Storkey, Suzanne J. Clark, Les G. Firbank, Sandrine Petit and Ian P. Woiwod

      Article first published online: 24 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01897.x

  3. Spatial ecology

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
    1. A predictive model of avian natal dispersal distance provides prior information for investigating response to landscape change (pages 14–23)

      Georgia E. Garrard, Michael A. McCarthy, Peter A. Vesk, James Q. Radford and Andrew F. Bennett

      Article first published online: 5 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01891.x

    2. Territory quality determines social group composition in Ethiopian wolves Canis simensis (pages 24–35)

      Lucy A. Tallents, Deborah A. Randall, Stuart D. Williams and David W. Macdonald

      Article first published online: 28 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01911.x

  4. Population ecology

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
    1. The impact of a pathogenic bacterium on a social carnivore population (pages 36–46)

      Oliver P. Höner, Bettina Wachter, Katja V. Goller, Heribert Hofer, Victor Runyoro, Dagmar Thierer, Robert D. Fyumagwa, Thomas Müller and Marion L. East

      Article first published online: 1 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01873.x

    2. The role of transient dynamics in biological pest control: insights from a host–parasitoid community (pages 47–57)

      David Kidd and Priyanga Amarasekare

      Article first published online: 1 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01881.x

  5. Parasite and disease ecology

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
    1. Synergistic effects of seasonal rainfall, parasites and demography on fluctuations in springbok body condition (pages 58–69)

      Wendy C. Turner, Wilferd D. Versfeld, J. Werner Kilian and Wayne M. Getz

      Article first published online: 10 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01892.x

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      Behavioural resistance against a protozoan parasite in the monarch butterfly (pages 70–79)

      Thierry Lefèvre, Allen Chiang, Mangala Kelavkar, Hui Li, James Li, Carlos Lopez Fernandez de Castillejo, Lindsay Oliver, Yamini Potini, Mark D. Hunter and Jacobus C. de Roode

      Article first published online: 21 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01901.x

  6. Life histories

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
    1. Litter sex composition affects life-history traits in yellow-bellied marmots (pages 80–86)

      Raquel Monclús and Daniel T. Blumstein

      Article first published online: 29 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01888.x

    2. Female plumage coloration is sensitive to the cost of reproduction. An experiment in blue tits (pages 87–96)

      Claire Doutrelant, Arnaud Grégoire, Afiwa Midamegbe, Marcel Lambrechts and Philippe Perret

      Article first published online: 5 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01889.x

  7. Evolutionary ecology

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
    1. Lifetime fitness correlates of natal dispersal distance in a colonial bird (pages 97–107)

      David Serrano and José L. Tella

      Article first published online: 6 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01878.x

    2. Reduced size and starvation resistance in adult mosquitoes, Aedes notoscriptus, exposed to predation cues as larvae (pages 108–115)

      Vincent O. van Uitregt, Timothy P. Hurst and Robbie S. Wilson

      Article first published online: 29 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01880.x

    3. Variation in personality and behavioural plasticity across four populations of the great tit Parus major (pages 116–126)

      Niels J. Dingemanse, Karen M. Bouwman, Martijn van de Pol, Thijs van Overveld, Samantha C. Patrick, Erik Matthysen and John L. Quinn

      Article first published online: 21 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01877.x

    4. How avian nest site selection responds to predation risk: testing an ‘adaptive peak hypothesis’ (pages 127–138)

      Quresh S. Latif, Sacha K. Heath and John T. Rotenberry

      Article first published online: 16 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01895.x

  8. Demography

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
    1. Bayesian inference on age-specific survival for censored and truncated data (pages 139–149)

      Fernando Colchero and James S. Clark

      Article first published online: 26 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01898.x

    2. Dying like rabbits: general determinants of spatio-temporal variability in survival (pages 150–161)

      Zulima Tablado, Eloy Revilla and Francisco Palomares

      Article first published online: 4 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01884.x

    3. Evaluating the demographic buffering hypothesis with vital rates estimated for Weddell seals from 30 years of mark–recapture data (pages 162–173)

      Jay J. Rotella, William A. Link, Thierry Chambert, Glenn E. Stauffer and Robert A. Garrott

      Article first published online: 21 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01902.x

    4. A meta-analysis of the traits affecting dispersal ability in butterflies: can wingspan be used as a proxy? (pages 174–184)

      Sandhya Sekar

      Article first published online: 11 OCT 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01909.x

  9. Community ecology

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
    1. Flexible components of functional responses (pages 185–189)

      Toshinori Okuyama

      Article first published online: 6 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01876.x

    2. Evaluating sampling completeness in a desert plant–pollinator network (pages 190–200)

      Natacha P. Chacoff, Diego P. Vázquez, Silvia B. Lomáscolo, Erica L. Stevani, Jimena Dorado and Benigno Padrón

      Article first published online: 4 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01883.x

    3. Body size and the division of niche space: food and predation differentially shape the distribution of Serengeti grazers (pages 201–213)

      J. Grant C. Hopcraft, T. Michael Anderson, Saleta Pérez-Vila, Emilian Mayemba and Han Olff

      Article first published online: 29 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01885.x

    4. Relative role of deterministic and stochastic determinants of soil animal community: a spatially explicit analysis of oribatid mites (pages 214–221)

      Tancredi Caruso, Mauro Taormina and Massimo Migliorini

      Article first published online: 1 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01886.x

    5. Ingredients for protist coexistence: competition, endosymbiosis and a pinch of biochemical interactions (pages 222–232)

      Johann P. Müller, Céline Hauzy and Florence D. Hulot

      Article first published online: 10 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01894.x

    6. The discovery–dominance trade-off is the exception, rather than the rule (pages 233–241)

      Catherine L. Parr and Heloise Gibb

      Article first published online: 19 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01899.x

    7. Evaluating the effects of trophic complexity on a keystone predator by disassembling a partial intraguild predation food web (pages 242–250)

      Jon M. Davenport and David R. Chalcraft

      Article first published online: 23 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01906.x

  10. Climate ecology

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
    1. Regional zooplankton biodiversity provides limited buffering of pond ecosystems against climate change (pages 251–259)

      Patrick L. Thompson and Jonathan B. Shurin

      Article first published online: 23 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01908.x

  11. Behavioural ecology

    1. Top of page
    2. In Focus
    3. Trophic interactions
    4. Spatial ecology
    5. Population ecology
    6. Parasite and disease ecology
    7. Life histories
    8. Evolutionary ecology
    9. Demography
    10. Community ecology
    11. Climate ecology
    12. Behavioural ecology
    1. Social structure emerges via the interaction between local ecology and individual behaviour (pages 260–267)

      Colby J. Tanner and Andrew L. Jackson

      Article first published online: 13 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01879.x

    2. Observations on the flight paths of the day-flying moth Virbia lamae during periods of mate location: do males have a strategy for contacting the pheromone plume? (pages 268–276)

      Ring T. Cardé, Anja M. Cardé and Robbie D. Girling

      Article first published online: 5 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01887.x

    3. Sexual antagonism for testosterone maintains multiple mating behaviour (pages 277–283)

      Mikael Mokkonen, Esa Koskela, Tapio Mappes and Suzanne C. Mills

      Article first published online: 23 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01903.x

    4. Behavioural trade-offs in response to external stimuli: time allocation of an Arctic ungulate during varying intensities of harassment by parasitic flies (pages 284–295)

      Leslie A. Witter, Chris J. Johnson, Bruno Croft, Anne Gunn and Michael P. Gillingham

      Article first published online: 27 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01905.x

    5. Testes size, testosterone production and reproductive behaviour in a natural mammalian mating system (pages 296–305)

      Brian T. Preston, Ian R. Stevenson, Gerald A. Lincoln, Steven L. Monfort, Jill G. Pilkington and Kenneth Wilson

      Article first published online: 29 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01907.x

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