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List of works by Rauno Alatalo

Adaptive significance of synchronous chorusing in an acoustically signalling wolf spider

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Age-dependent inbreeding risk and offspring fitness costs in female black grouse.

scientific article published on June 2011

Are European White Butterflies Aposematic?

article by Anne Lyytinen et al published November 1999 in Evolutionary Ecology

BATESIAN MIMICRY AND SIGNAL ACCURACY

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

BATESIAN MIMICRY AND SIGNAL ACCURACY

Biometry, Habitat Distribution and Breeding Success in the Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

Blood parasites and male fitness in the pied flycatcher

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Body Size, Interspecific Interactions, and Use of Foraging Sites in Tits (Paridae)

scientific article published on 01 December 1987

Can aposematic signals evolve by gradual change?

scientific article published in Nature

Can ultraviolet cues function as aposematic signals?

scientific article

Color Signals in the Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix): Signal Properties and Their Condition Dependency

article by Heli Siitari et al published January 2007 in The American Naturalist

Color signals in the black grouse (Tetrao tetrix): signal properties and their condition dependency.

scientific article published in January 2007

Decreased sexual signalling reveals reduced viability in small populations of the drumming wolf spider Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Determinants of yearling male lekking effort and mating success in black grouse (Tetrao tetrix)

scientific article published in 2012

Do Females Prefer Older Males in Polygynous Bird Species?

scientific article published in 1986

Do female leaf beetles Galerucella nymphaeae choose their mates and does it matter?

scientific article published on March 1998

Do pied flycatcher females guard their monogamous status?

article

Effects of novelty and gregariousness in survival of aposematic prey

scientific article published in 1997

Energetic costs of size and sexual signalling in a wolf spider

scientific article published in 1998

Evolution of black grouse leks: female preferences benefit males in larger leks

article

Exploitation Competition Influences the Use of Foraging Sites by Tits: Experimental Evidence

article

Extra-Pair Copulations and Mate Guarding in the Polyterritorial Pied Flycatcher, Ficedula Hypoleuca

Extra-Pair Paternity and Heritability Estimates of Tarsus Length in Pied and Collared Flycatchers

article

Female choice selects for lifetime lekking performance in black grouse males

scientific article published in 1999

Female kestrels gain reproductive success by choosing brightly ornamented males

Female pied flycatchers choose territory quality and not male characteristics

scientific article published in Nature

Female-biased dispersal alone can reduce the occurrence of inbreeding in black grouse (Tetrao tetrix).

scientific article published on 24 March 2010

Fighting behaviour as a correlate of male mating success in black grouse Tetrao tetrix

scientific article published in 2012

Food supplementation reveals constraints and adaptability of egg quality in the magpie Pica pica

article by Heli Siitari et al published 1 December 2015 in Avian Biology Research

Founder population size and number of source populations enhance colonization success in waterstriders.

scientific article published on 8 October 2003

Genetic Component of Morphological Differentiation in Coal Tits Under Competitive Release

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Genetic and environmental variation in antibody and t-cell mediated responses in the great tit

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Good-genes effects in sexual selection

scientific article published in 1999

HERITABILITY AND SELECTION ON TARSUS LENGTH IN THE PIED FLYCATCHER (FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA).

scientific article published in May 1986

Habitat Shift of the Willow Tit Parus montanus in the Absence of the Marsh Tit Parus palustris

Heritabilities and paradigm shifts

scientific article published in Nature

High Frequency of Cuckoldry in Pied and Collared Flycatchers

scientific article published in 1984

Honesty of agonistic signalling and effects of size and motivation asymmetry in contests

scientific article

Hybridization between Pied and Collared Flycatchers-sexual selection and speciation theory

Immune function, dominance and mating success in drumming male wolf spiders Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata

scientific article published in 2006

Imperfect Batesian mimicry—the effects of the frequency and the distastefulness of the model

scientific article published in 1997

Inbreeding depression and male fitness in black grouse

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Interspecific Competition and Niche Changes in Tits (Parus spp.): Evaluation of Nonexperimental Data

article

Interspecific Competition and Niche Shifts in Tits and the Goldcrest: An Experiment

article

Joint brood guarding in parent bugs — an experiment on defence against predation

scientific article published in 1995

Joint brood guarding in parent bugs???an experiment on defence against predation

scientific article published in 1995

Large-scale drainage and breeding success in boreal forest grouse

scientific article

Lekking in the black grouse— a test of male viability

scientific article published in Nature

Life-history differences in age-dependent expressions of multiple ornaments and behaviors in a lekking bird

scientific article published on 19 November 2014

Limited indirect fitness benefits of male group membership in a lekking species.

scientific article

Low levels of relatedness on black grouse leks despite male philopatry

scientific article published on 18 September 2008

Male mating success and risk of predation in a wolf spider: a balance between sexual and natural selection?

scientific article published in 1998

Mate choice for offspring performance: major benefits or minor costs?

scientific article published in 1998

Maternal antibodies in a wild altricial bird: effects on offspring immunity, growth and survival

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Maternal effort and male quality in the bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Microsatellite markers reveal the potential for kin selection on black grouse leks

scientific article published in 1999

No Evidence for Effects of Breeding Density and Male Removal on Extrapair Paternity in the Pied Flycatcher

scientific article

Overwintering survival in relation to body mass in a field population of the wolf spider ( Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata )

scientific article

Overwintering survival in relation to body mass in a field population of the wolf spider (Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata)

Phenotypic Selection on Heritable Size Traits: Environmental Variance and Genetic Response

scientific article published in 1990

Physiological costs enforce the honesty of lek display in the black grouse (Tetrao tetrix)

scientific article published on 25 December 2012

Polyterritoriality and deception

scientific article published on 01 April 1990

Predator experience on cryptic prey affects the survival of conspicuous aposematic prey

scientific article (publication date: 22 February 2001)

Prenatal androgen exposure modulates cellular and humoral immune function of black-headed gull chicks.

scientific article

Reduced dispersal propensity in the wingless waterstrider Aquarius najas in a highly fragmented landscape

scientific article published on 18 September 2009

Restrictive mate choice criteria cause age-specific inbreeding in female black grouse, Tetrao tetrix

SEXUAL SELECTION IN A WOLF SPIDER: MALE DRUMMING ACTIVITY, BODY SIZE, AND VIABILITY.

scientific article published in October 1996

SIGNAL RELIABILITY COMPROMISED BY GENOTYPE-BY-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION AND POTENTIAL MECHANISMS FOR ITS PRESERVATION

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Seasonal dynamics of resource partitioning among foliage-gleaning passerines in northern Finland

scientific article published on 01 May 1980

Seasonal survival of young and adult black grouse females in boreal forests

scientific article

Sexual Selection in a Wolf Spider: Male Drumming Activity, Body Size, and Viability

scientific article

Sexual differences in growth strategies of the wolf spider Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata

Sexual signalling and viability in a wolf spider ( Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata ): measurements under laboratory and field conditions

scientific article published in 1999

Short- and long-term population dynamical consequences of asymmetric climate change in black grouse

scholarly article by Gilbert X Ludwig et al published 22 August 2006 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Strong antiapostatic selection against novel rare aposematic prey.

scientific article

Support for a colleague.

scientific article

THE EFFECT OF ALTERNATIVE PREY ON THE DYNAMICS OF IMPERFECT BATESIAN AND MÜLLERIAN MIMICRIES

The Conflict Between Male Polygamy and Female Monogamy: The Case of the Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

scientific article published in 1981

The Mhc class II of the Black grouse (Tetrao tetrix) consists of low numbers of B and Y genes with variable diversity and expression

scientific article published on 25 July 2007

The effect of alternative prey on the dynamics of imperfect Batesian and Müllerian mimicries.

scientific article published in June 2004

The role of females in influencing mating patterns

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Tracking the evolution of warning signals

scientific article published in Nature

Trade-offs between sexual advertisement and immune function in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca).

scientific article published in February 2004

Viability costs of condition-dependent sexual male display in a drumming wolf spider

article

Why do pied flycatcher females mate with already-mated males?

Why do young passerine birds have shorter wings than older birds?

article published in 2008