0003-3472 2012 The Association for the Study of A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.031 The scientific study of frogs and toads as important systems in behavioural ecology traces its roots to an influential review published in this journal 36 years ago (Wells 1977a, ‘The social behaviour of anuran amphibians’, Animal Behaviour, 25, 666e693). In just 28 pages, Wells summarized the stat...

a Laboratory of Animal Sociology, Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan b Department of Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Hinterkappelen, Switzerland c Institute of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan d Division of Nature and Environmental Management, Mus...

Pioneering bacterial andalgal communities and potential extracellular enzymeactivities of streambio¢lms Elisabeth Pohlon, Jürgen Marxsen & Kirsten Küsel Limnology Research Group, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany; and Limnological River Station of the Max Planck Institute for Li...

LEO J. FLEISHMAN*, WILLIAM J. McCLINTOCK†, RICHARD B. D’EATH‡, DAVID H. BRAINARD§ & JOHN A. ENDLER** *Department of Biological Sciences, Union College †Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S.A. ‡Animal Biology Division, Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh §Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S.A...

Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Straße 4, Freiburg, Germany School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Ireland Department of Conservation and Research, Bavarian Forest National Park, Freyunger Straße 2, Grafenau, Germany 4Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Wildlife Management, University of Freiburg...

Many authors assert that plants exhibit complex behaviours which are analogous to animal behaviour. However, plant ecologists rarely root these studies in a conceptual foundation as fertile as that used by animal behaviourists. Here we adapt the optimality principles that facilitated numerous advances in the study of animal foraging behaviour to create one possible framework for plant foraging ...

aspects of male quality in two populations of the common yellowthroat Peter O. Dunn*, Julia C. Garvin, Linda A. Whittingham, Corey R. Freeman-Gallant and Dennis Hasselquist Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201, USA; Department of Biology, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866, USA; and Department of Animal Ecology, Ecolog...

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Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, 505 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (LLG) Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, 110 Newins–Ziegler Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA (MKO, AO) Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 81820, USA (JEH) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corson Hall, Cornell Uni...

determined by genetic inheritance, maternal effects and own early experience in mouthbrooding cichlids Ariane Stratmann and Barbara Taborsky* Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Wohlenstrasse 50A, CH-3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland; and Division of Animal Welfare, Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Burgerweg 22, CH-3052 Zollikofen, ...