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A Communication-Based Spatial Model of Antipredator Vigilance

scientific article published in January 2003

A continued role for signaling functions in the early evolution of feathers

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

A game-theoretic model of kleptoparasitic behavior in polymorphic populations.

scientific article published on 5 August 2008

A reassessment of the predation risk allocation hypothesis: a comment on Lima and Bednekoff

scientific article published on 30 November 2010

A recipe for scavenging in vertebrates - the natural history of a behaviour

scientific article published in 2016

A review of thanatosis (death feigning) as an anti-predator behaviour

scientific article published on 15 January 2018

A tale of 2 signals: signal mimicry between aposematic species enhances predator avoidance learning

scientific article published in 2010

A theory for investment across defences triggered at different stages of a predator-prey encounter

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Absolute foraging rate and susceptibility to interference competition in blackbirds varies with patch conditions

article

Accidental island voyagers.

scientific article published in January 2013

Adaptive suicide: is a kin-selected driver of fatal behaviours likely?

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Aggregation, defence and warning signals: the evolutionary relationship

scientific article published in October 2006

Alternative explanations for apparent mimicry

scientific article (publication date: 17 May 2011)

An ecological perspective on water shedding from leaves

scientific article published on 28 October 2021

Antipredator vigilance in birds: modelling the 'edge' effect

scientific article published on 27 July 2005

Aposematic signals and the relationship between conspicuousness and distinctiveness

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

Aposematism: Unpacking the Defences

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Aposematism: what should our starting point be?

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Are green turtles globally endangered?

article

Artificial light at night may decrease predation risk for terrestrial insects

scientific article published in 2022

Artificial neural network properties associated with wiring patterns in the visual projections of vertebrates and arthropods

scientific article published on 10 July 2006

Avian predators attack aposematic prey more forcefully when they are part of an aggregation

scientific article published on December 2006

Avian-style respiration allowed gigantism in pterosaurs.

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Avoidance of overheating and selection for both hair loss and bipedality in hominins

scientific article (publication date: 27 December 2011)

Basic features, conjunctive searches, and the confusion effect in predator–prey interactions

scientific article published in 2008

Behavioural ecology: Winged warnings

scientific article published in October 2009

Behavioural ecology: grasshoppers don't play possum

scientific article published in April 2006

Birdsbesafe® collar cover reduces bird predation by domestic cats (<i>Felis catus</i>)

scientific article published in 2019

Body Size as a Driver of Scavenging in Theropod Dinosaurs

scientific article

Body plan of consumed organisms influences ecological range of consumers through neural processing bias

scientific article published in February 2008

Breeding Suppression and Predator-Prey Dynamics

scientific article published in 2000

Camouflage in predators

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Can intraspecific brood parasitism be detected using egg morphology only?

article by Emma Ådahl et al published July 2004 in Journal of Avian Biology

Can't tell the caterpillars from the trees: countershading enhances survival in a woodland

scientific article published in November 2008

Carry-over effects reveal reproductive costs in a long-distance migrant

scientific article published on 22 June 2010

Changes in antipredator vigilance over time caused by a war of attrition between predator and prey

scientific article published in 2011

Choice of Foraging Area with Respect to Predation Risk in Redshanks: The Effects of Weather and Predator Activity

scientific article published in 1999

Circular data in biology: advice for effectively implementing statistical procedures

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Circular statistics meets practical limitations: a simulation-based Rao's spacing test for non-continuous data

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Coevolution can explain defensive secondary metabolite diversity in plants

scientific article

Collective memory and spatial sorting in animal groups.

scientific article

Comment on “Vegetation height and egg coloration differentially affect predation rate and overheating risk: an experimental test mimicking a ground-nesting bird” <sup>1</sup>Appears in Can. J. Zool. <b>90</b>(6): 694–703. doi: 10.1139/z2012-035.

scientific article published in 2012

Consequences of grouped data for testing for departure from circular uniformity.

scientific article published on 28 October 2017

Consequences of variation in predator attack for the evolution of the selfish herd

scientific article published in 2014

Consumer-resource matching in a food chain when both predators and prey are free to move

scholarly article by Andrew L. Jackson et al published September 2004 in Oikos

Context-dependent misclassification of masquerading prey

Could Tyrannosaurus rex have been a scavenger rather than a predator? An energetics approach ⬇️

scientific article published on April 7, 2003

Could methane produced by sauropod dinosaurs have helped drive Mesozoic climate warmth?

scientific article published on 07 May 2012

Countershading enhances cryptic protection: an experiment with wild birds and artificial prey

Dazzle coloration and prey movement.

scientific article

Death on the roads: no strong support for risk compensation

scientific article published on July 2006

Deception in plants: mimicry or perceptual exploitation?

scientific article published on 14 August 2009

Density-dependent investment in costly anti-predator defences: an explanation for the weak survival benefit of group living.

scientific article published on 4 April 2012

Density-dependent predation influences the evolution and behavior of masquerading prey.

scientific article

Diversification of honest signals in a predator-prey system.

scientific article published in June 2010

Do kleptoparasites reduce their own foraging effort in order to detect kleptoparasitic opportunities?: An empirical test of a key assumption of kleptoparasitic models

scientific article published in 2002

Dropping to escape: a review of an under-appreciated antipredator defence

article

Dynamics of mercury in blood and feathers of great skuas

article

EVOLUTION OF DISPERSAL RATES IN METAPOPULATION MODELS: BRANCHING AND CYCLIC DYNAMICS IN PHENOTYPE SPACE.

scientific article published in December 1997

Ecological pharmacodynamics: prey toxin evolution depends on the physiological characteristics of predators

scientific article published in 2014

Effective use of the McNemar test

scientific article published in 2020

Effects of anti-predator defence through toxin sequestration on use of alternative food microhabitats by small herbivores

scientific article published on 24 January 2012

Effects of seed passage by sheep on germination of the invasive Prosopis juliflora tree

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Egg-laying substrate selection for optimal camouflage by quail.

scientific article published on 17 January 2013

Endurance running and its relevance to scavenging by early hominins

scientific article published on 25 October 2012

Energetic arguments predict larger-bodied animals will be increasingly confined to flat environments

scientific article published on 19 April 2014

Evolution of anti-predator traits in response to a flexible targeting strategy by predators.

scientific article published in May 2006

Evolution of suicidal signals

scientific article published in Nature

Evolution: a taste for mimicry.

scientific article published in January 2005

Evolutionarily stable sexual allocation by both stressed and unstressed potentially simultaneous hermaphrodites within the same population.

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

Evolutionarily stable stealing: game theory applied to kleptoparasitism

article

Evolutionary implications of the form of predator generalization for aposematic signals and mimicry in prey

scientific article published on 26 August 2008

Experiments with humans indicate that decision accuracy drives the evolution of niche width.

scientific article published on 13 April 2011

Fatal attraction: carnivorous plants roll out the red carpet to lure insects

scientific article

Fear of Killer Whales Drives Extreme Synchrony in Deep Diving Beaked Whales

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Fenestration: a window of opportunity for carnivorous plants

scientific article

Fishing with a Bait or Lure: A Brief Review of the Cognitive Issues

article

Floral colour change as a potential signal to pollinators

scientific article published on 15 July 2016

Florivory as an Opportunity Benefit of Aposematism.

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Foraging mode switching: the importance of prey distribution and foraging currency

Frequency-dependent conspecific attraction to food patches

scientific article

Group Dynamics: Predators and Prey Get a Little Help from Their Friends ⬇️

scientific article published on July 10, 2012

Grouped circular data in biology: advice for effectively implementing statistical procedures

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Growth and reproductive costs of larval defence in the aposematic lepidopteran Pieris brassicae.

scientific article

Host life-history strategies and the evolution of chick-killing by brood parasitic offspring

scientific article published in 2007

How bright and how nasty: explaining diversity in warning signal strength

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

How can automimicry persist when predators can preferentially consume undefended mimics?

scientific article published in February 2006

How robust are neural network models of stimulus generalization?

scientific article published on 16 February 2008

Imperfect Batesian mimicry and the conspicuousness costs of mimetic resemblance

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Incorporating thermodynamics in predator–prey games predicts the diel foraging patterns of poikilothermic predators

scientific article published on 15 October 2021

Increasing search rate over time may cause a slower than expected increase in prey encounter rate with increasing prey density

scientific article

Incubation time as an important influence on egg production and distribution into clutches for sauropod dinosaurs

article

Individuals from different-looking animal species may group together to confuse shared predators: simulations with artificial neural networks

scientific article

Interspecific information transfer influences animal community structure.

scientific article published on 10 February 2010

Intimidating butterflies

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Intrafamily and intragenomic conflicts in human warfare.

scientific article

Intragroup and intragenomic conflict over chemical defense against predators.

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Intraspecific brood parasitism can increase the number of eggs that an individual lays in its own nest

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Introduction. The use of artificial neural networks to study perception in animals

scientific article published on March 2007

Investment in attending to cues and the evolution of amplifiers.

scientific article published on 3 March 2016

Is food worth fighting for? ESS's in mixed populations of Kleptoparasites and Foragers

scientific article

Linking signal fidelity and the efficiency costs of communication.

scientific article published on 20 June 2014

Masquerade: camouflage without crypsis.

scientific article published on January 2010

Metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Mimicry between unequally defended prey can be parasitic: evidence for quasi-Batesian mimicry.

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Mixed-species aggregations in arthropods.

scientific article

Model selection versus traditional hypothesis testing in circular statistics: a simulation study

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Modeling scan and interscan durations in antipredator vigilance

scientific article published on 30 November 2015

Motion dazzle and camouflage as distinct anti-predator defenses

scientific article

Natural selection on unpalatable species imposed by state-dependent foraging behaviour

scientific article published in May 2004

Non-visual crypsis: a review of the empirical evidence for camouflage to senses other than vision

scientific article

Obligate vertebrate scavengers must be large soaring fliers

scientific article

On the evolutionary stability of zero-cost pooled-equilibrium signals.

scientific article published on 8 February 2013

On the variety of methods for calculating confidence intervals by bootstrapping

scientific article

Optimal apostatic selection: how should predators adjust to variation in prey frequencies?

scientific article published in 2009

Optimal defensive coloration strategies during the growth period of prey

scientific article published on 6 August 2009

Optimal investment across different aspects of anti-predator defences

scientific article published on 11 January 2010

Optimizing countershading camouflage

scientific article

Orientation to the sun by animals and its interaction with crypsis

scientific article published on 20 June 2015

Patch choice decisions of wild blackbirds: the role of preharvest public information

Peppers and poisons: the evolutionary ecology of bad taste

scientific article published on September 2006

Perceptual advertisement by the prey of stalking or ambushing predators

scientific article published on 31 August 2012

Plant crypsis, aposematism, and mimicry

article

Population trajectories for accidental versus planned colonisation of islands

scientific article published on 29 June 2012

Predator Eavesdropping in a Mixed-Species Environment: How Prey Species May Use Grouping, Confusion, and the Cocktail Party Effect to Reduce Predator Detection

scientific article published in 2019

Predator learning differences affect the survival of chemically defended prey

scientific article published in 2017

Predators are less likely to misclassify masquerading prey when their models are present

scientific article published on 21 April 2010

Prey choice affects the trade-off balance between predation and starvation in an avian herbivore

scholarly article by Richard Inger et al published June 2006 in Animal Behaviour

Prey community structure affects how predators select for Mullerian mimicry

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Prey jitters; protean behaviour in grouped prey

scientific article published in 2011

Resistance is useless?--Extensions to the game theory of kleptoparasitism

scientific article published in November 2004

Resolving current disagreements and ambiguities in the terminology of animal communication.

scientific article

Round your numbers in rank tests: exact and asymptotic inference and ties

scientific article published in 2009

Sampling design and its effect on population monitoring: How much monitoring do turtles really need?

Secondary dispersal mechanisms of winged seeds: a review

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Setting tool use within the context of animal construction behaviour

scientific article published on 11 January 2008

Sexually transmitted disease and the evolution of mating systems

scientific article published in June 2002

Sheep in wolves' clothing

scientific article published in Nature

Signal Diversity, Sexual Selection, and Speciation

scientific article published in 2015

Signal verification can promote reliable signalling.

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Size-dependent microhabitat selection by masquerading prey

scientific article published in 2012

Size-dependent predation risk in cryptic prey

scientific article published in 2021

Some comments on the update to BJP guidance on experimental design and analysis

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Some mistakes go unpunished: the evolution of "all or nothing" signalling.

scientific article published on 14 July 2011

Statement on reduced risk is misleading ⬇️

scientific article published on October 24, 2012

Statistical model specification and power: recommendations on the use of test-qualified pooling in analysis of experimental data.

scientific article

Structural correlates of increased adhesive efficiency with adult size in the toe pads of hylid tree frogs

scientific article published on 8 September 2006

Swarm intelligence in animals and humans

scientific article published on 06 September 2009

Temporal and intrapopulation variation in prey choice of wintering geese determined by stable isotope analysis

scientific article published in September 2006

Temporally fluctuating prey and coexistence among unequal conspecific interferers

scientific article published in 2003

Temporally fluctuating prey and interfering predators: a positive feedback

scholarly article by P.Anders Nilsson & Graeme Ruxton published July 2004 in Animal Behaviour

Testing for departure from uniformity and estimating mean direction for circular data

scientific article

The Hermans-Rasson test as a powerful alternative to the Rayleigh test for circular statistics in biology

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

The Impact of Detoxification Costs and Predation Risk on Foraging: Implications for Mimicry Dynamics.

scientific article

The application of genetic algorithms in behavioural ecology, illustrated with a model of anti-predator vigilance

scientific article published on 3 December 2007

The confusion effect in predatory neural networks

scientific article published on 12 January 2005

The conservation physiology of seed dispersal ⬇️

scientific article published on June 19, 2012

The dicey dinner dilemma: Asymmetry in predator-prey risk-taking, a broadly applicable alternative to the life-dinner principle

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

The dual benefits of aposematism: predator avoidance and enhanced resource collection

scientific article

The dynamics of collective human behaviour ⬇️

scientific article published on March 12, 2011

The effect of aggregation on visibility in open water.

scientific article

The effect of prey density on predators: conspicuousness and attack success are sensitive to spatial scale

scientific article published in April 2009

The effect of social facilitation on foraging success in vultures: a modelling study

scientific article

The effects of group size, shape and composition on ease of detection of cryptic prey

article

The energetics of low browsing in sauropods

scientific article (publication date: 23 October 2011)

The evolution of flight in bats: a novel hypothesis

scientific article published in 2020

The evolutionary ecology of decorating behaviour

scientific article

The evolutionary stability of attenuators that mask information about animals that social partners can exploit

scientific article published on 23 March 2018

The formation and growth of seabird colonies: Audouin's gull as a case study

article published in 2001

The impact of flower-dwelling predators on host plant reproductive success

scientific article published on 19 June 2010

The importance of initial protection of conspicuous mutants for the coevolution of defense and aposematic signaling of the defense: a modeling study

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

The intensity of interference varies with food density: support for behaviour-based models of interference

scientific article published on November 1996

The key role of behaviour in animal camouflage

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

The multivariate analysis of variance as a powerful approach for circular data

scientific article published on 27 April 2022

The need for biological realism in the updating of cellular automata models

scientific article published in 1998

The need for stochastic replication of ecological neural networks

scientific article published on March 2007

The number of strata in propensity score stratification for a binary outcome.

scientific article published on 16 August 2016

The possible fitness benefits of striped coat coloration for zebra

article

The resource dispersion hypothesis and the ‘future value’ of food

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

The stability of internal equilibria in predator-prey models with breeding suppression

scientific article published in September 2002

The temporal selfish herd: predation risk while aggregations form

scientific article published in September 2010

The unequal variance t-test is an underused alternative to Student's t-test and the Mann–Whitney U test

scientific article published in 2006

Theoretical predictions strongly support decision accuracy as a major driver of ecological specialization

scholarly article

Thermoregulation and endurance running in extinct hominins: Wheeler's models revisited.

scientific article published on 12 April 2011

Three-Dimensional Camouflage: Exploiting Photons to Conceal Form.

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Toward an individual-level understanding of vigilance: the role of social information

article published in 2006

Turn alternation and the influence of environmental factors on search routes through branched structures by ladybirds (Coccinella septempunctata and Adalia bipunctata)

scientific article published on 05 December 2020

USING ARTIFICIAL NESTS TO TEST IMPORTANCE OF NESTING MATERIAL AND NEST SHELTER FOR INCUBATION ENERGETICS

scholarly article published in The Auk, January 2004

Underestimation of Pearson's product moment correlation statistic

scientific article published on 30 July 2018

Understanding selection for long necks in different taxa.

scientific article published on 16 December 2011

Unethical work must be filtered out or flagged

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Unified effects of aggregation reveal larger prey groups take longer to find.

scientific article published on 16 February 2011

Using Biological Insight and Pragmatism When Thinking about Pseudoreplication

scientific article

Visual search using realistic camouflage: countershading is highly effective at deterring search

Warning displays in spiny animals: one (more) evolutionary route to aposematism

scientific article

Warning signals evolve to disengage Batesian mimics

scientific article published on 11 September 2008

What hypothesis tests are not: a reply to Johnson

scientific article published on 02 September 2004

What, if anything, is the adaptive function of countershading?

When more is less: the fitness consequences of predators attacking more unpalatable prey when more are presented.

scientific article

White bark in birch species as a warning signal for bark-stripping mammals

scientific article published in 2022

Why are defensive toxins so variable? An evolutionary perspective

scientific article published on 30 April 2012

Why are small males aggressive?

scientific article

Why are so many trees hollow?

scientific article

Why did some ichthyosaurs have such large eyes?

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Why do vultures have bald heads? The role of postural adjustment and bare skin areas in thermoregulation

Why fruit rots: theoretical support for Janzen's theory of microbe-macrobe competition.

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

Why is eusociality an almost exclusively terrestrial phenomenon?

scientific article published on 24 June 2014

Why war is a man's game

scientific article published on 15 August 2018

You can run—or you can hide: optimal strategies for cryptic prey against pursuit predators

scientific article published in 2005

Zoology: Why are whales big?

scientific article published in Nature

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