The American Naturalist 1995 - Abstracts

The American Naturalist 1995
TitleSubjectAuthors
Adaptive significance of the timing of larval release by crabs.Earth sciencesJohn H. Christy, Steven G. Morgan
A generalized model of parasitoid, venereal, and vector-based transmission processes.Earth sciencesJanis Antonovics, Yoh Iwasa, Michael P. Hassell
Aggression, habituation, and clonal coexistence in the sea anemone Anthropleura Elegantissima.Earth sciencesDavid J. Ayre, Richard K. Grosberg
A herbivore paradox: why salt marsh aphids live on poor-quality plants.Earth sciencesMark D. Bertness, Sally D. Hacker
A model to explain ecological parapatry.Earth sciencesHugh Possingham, C. Michael Bull
A new hypothesis for the evolution of viviparity in reptiles.Earth sciencesRichard Shine
Angiosperm fleshy fruits and seed dispersers: a comparative analysis of adaptation and constraints in plant-animal interactions.Earth sciencesPedro Jordano
A sibling is as valuable as an offspring: reply to Xia. (response to X. Xia, American Naturalist, vol. 142, P. 144, 1993)Earth sciencesRobert C. Lacy
Attraction toward feeding conspecifics when food patches are exhaustible.Earth sciencesG.D. Ruxton, S.J. Hall, W.S.C. Gurney
Balancing costs and opportunities: dispersal in male baboons.Earth sciencesSusan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann
Biomass distribution in freshwater plankton communities.Earth sciencesJosep M. Gasol, Paul A. del Giorgio
Brood-size-dependent offspring mortality in common goldeneyes reconsidered: fact or artifact?Earth sciencesHannu Poysa, Markku Milonoff, Juha Virtanen
Chaos in a noisy world: new methods and evidence from time-series analysis.Earth sciencesPeter Turchin, Stephen Ellner
Chemical alarm signals: predator deterrents or predator attractants?Earth sciencesDouglas P. Chivers, Alicia Mathis, R. Jan F. Smith
Colony size as a buffer against seasonality: Bergmann's rule in social insects.Earth sciencesMichael Kaspari, Edward L. Vargo
Competition, herbivory, and enrichment: nutrient-based models for edible and inedible plants.Earth sciencesJames P. Grover
Consumers as maximizers of matter and energy flow in ecosystems.Earth sciencesMichel Loreau
Co-occurrence of morphologically similar species of stream fishes.Earth sciencesMatthew R. Winston
Courtship feeding in katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae): investment in offspring and in obtaining fertilizations.Earth sciencesL.W. Simmons
Cross-scale patterns of particulate food acquisition in marine benthic environments.Earth sciencesAvigdor Abelson, Yossi Loya
Dispersed versus central-place foraging: intra- and intercolonial competition in the strategy of trunk trail arrangement of a harvester ant.Earth sciencesJose M. Serrano, Francisco J. Acosta, Francisco Lopez
Do female fish prefer to spawn in nests with eggs for reasons of mate choice copying or egg survival?Earth sciencesIan Jamieson
Do primates experience sperm competition?Earth sciencesJerry F. Downhower, Robert W. Shumaker, Luther Brown
Estimating competition coefficients from census data: a test with field manipulations of tidepool fishes.Earth sciencesCatherine A. Pfister
Evolution of body size: varanid lizards as a model system.Earth sciencesEric R. Pianka
Expected population density versus productivity in ratio-dependent and prey-dependent models.Earth sciencesPer Lundberg, John M. Fryxell
Facultative sex allocation by workers and the evolution of polyandry by queens in social hymenoptera.Earth sciencesJacobus J. Boomsma, Francis L.W. Ratnieks
Fecundity and dispersal in plant populations: implications for structure and diversity.Earth sciencesJames S. Clark, Yuan Ji
First-cohort advantage hypothesis: a new twist on facultative sex ratio adjustment.Earth sciencesRichard A. Kiltie, Debra D. Wright, Jan T. Ryser
Fitness landscapes of thermal sensitivity.(Specialists and Generalists in Changing Environments, part 1)Earth sciencesGeorge W. Gilchrist
Flower size-dependent variation in seed size: theory and a test.Earth sciencesSatoki Sakai, Akiko Sakai
Food perishability and inventory management: a comparison of three caching strategies.Earth sciencesO.J. Reichman, Robert P. Gendron
Formalizing Allee's ideas on dominance hierarchies: an intrademic selection model.Earth sciencesLee Alan Dugatkin
Frequency-dependent disease transmission and the dynamics of the 'Silene-Ustilago' host-pathogen system.Earth sciencesPeter H. Thrall, Arjen Biere, Marcy K. Uyenoyama
Implications of dynamically variable traits for identifying, classifying and measuring direct and indirect effects in ecological communities.Earth sciencesPeter A. Abrams
Incompatibility analysis of male hybrid sterility in two Drosophila species: lack of evidence for maternal, cytoplasmic, or transposable element effects.Earth sciencesEleftherios Zouros, George Goulielmos
Intraspecific fledging mass variation in the Alcidae, with special reference to the seasonal fledging mass decline.Earth sciencesColin W. Clark, R.C. Ydenberg, A. Harfenist
Joint influence of gene flow and selection on a reproductively important genetic polymorphism in the fire ant Solenopsis Invicta.Earth sciencesLaurent Keller, Kenneth G. Ross
Metapopulation genetics and the evolution of dispersal.Earth sciencesPierre-Henri Gouyon, Yannis Michalakis, Isabelle Olivieri
Mimicry, mate choice, and the sensory trap hypothesis.Earth sciencesJohn H. Christy
Modeling stratified diffusion in biological invasions.Earth sciencesNanako Shigesada, Kohkichi Kawasaki, Yasuhiko Takeda
Morphological integration in the saddle-back tamarin (Saguinus fuscicollis) cranium.Earth sciencesJames M. Cheverud
Motor learning and the value of familiar space.Earth sciencesJudy Stamps
Multilevel selection in natural populations of Impatiens capensis.Earth sciencesCharles J. Goodnight, Lori Stevens, Susan Kalisz
Neighborhood models of clonal growth in the white clover Trifolium repens.Earth sciencesS.W. Pacala, M.-J. Fortin, M.L. Cain, J.A. Silander Jr.
Neotropical plant reproductive strategies and fossil pollen representation.Earth sciencesMark B. Bush
Nest predation as a selective factor in the evolution of developmental rates in altricial birds.Earth sciencesCarlos Bosque, Maria Teresa Bosque
Nutrient-use efficiency: a litterfall index, a model, and a test along a nutrient-availability gradient in North Carolina peatlands.Earth sciencesJohn Pastor, Scott D. Bridgham, Charles A. McClaugherty, Curtis J. Richardson
On alternative reproductive tactics in anurans: dynamic games with density and frequency dependence.Earth sciencesJeffrey R. Lucas, Richard D. Howard
On expected lifetimes of small-bodied and large-bodied species of birds on islands.Earth sciencesIlkka Hanski, Rosamonde R. Cook
On the evolution of mating systems: a comment on Arnold and Duvall.(response to S.J. Arnold and D. Duvall, The American Naturalist, p. 341, 1994)Earth sciencesBertram G. Murray Jr
Optimal harvesting of fluctuating populations with a risk of extinction.Earth sciencesRussell Lande, Steinar Engen, Bernt-Erik Saether
Overestimation versus underestimation of predation risk: a reply to Bouskila et al. (response to Amos Bouskila in this issue, p. 1015)Earth sciencesPeter A. Abrams
Parallel speciation by natural selection.Earth sciencesDolph Schluter, Laura M. Nagel
Partitioning of reproduction in mother-daughter versus sibling associations: a test of optimal skew theory.Earth sciencesLaurent Keller, Hudson K. Reeve
Patterns of fluctuating asymmetry in sexual ornaments of birds from marginal and central populations.Earth sciencesAnders Pape Moller
Phenotypic design, plasticity, and ecological performance in two tadpole species.Earth sciencesDavid C. Smith, Josh Van Buskirk
Phenotypic plasticity as a product of selection in a variable environment.Earth sciencesG. De Jong
Plant outliers: an ecogenetic perspective.Earth sciencesDonald A. Levin
Prey under stochastic conditions should probably overestimate predation risk: a reply to Abrams. (response to P.A. Abrams, American Naturalist, vol. 144, p. 317, 1994)Earth sciencesMarc Mangel, Daniel T. Blumstein, Amos Bouskila
Proximate and ultimate aspects of phenotypic plasticity in timing of great tit breeding in a heterogeneous environment.Earth sciencesRuedi G. Nager, Arie J. van Noordwijk
Rapid change in offspring sex ratios after clan fission in the spotted hyena.Earth sciencesLaura Smale, Kay E. Holekamp
Refining the motor training hypothesis for the evolution of play.Earth sciencesJohn A. Byers, Curt Walker
Relative parental expenditure, potential reproductive rates, and the control of sexual selection in katydids.Earth sciencesSimmons L.W.
Revisiting Hamilton's rule.Earth sciencesXuhua Xia
Rules for allocation in a temperate forest ant: demography, natural selection, and queen-worker conflict.Earth sciencesVickie L. Backus
Search, discrimination, and selection: mate choice by pied flycatchers.Earth sciencesThomas Getty
Seed size and phylogeny in six temperate floras: constraints, niche conservatism, and adaptation.Earth sciencesMark Westoby, Janice Lord, Michelle Leishman
Senescence in organisms with clonal reproduction and complex life histories.Earth sciencesMaria E. Orive
Sex allocation and colony maintenance in monogyne and polygyne colonies of Formica truncorum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): the impact of kinship and mating structure.Earth sciencesLiselotte Sundstrom
Sex allocation in solitary bees and wasps.Earth sciencesSteven A. Frank
Signaling of need between parents and young: parent-offspring conflict and sibling rivalry.Earth sciencesH.C.J. Godfray
Speciation: founder events and their effects on x-linked and autosomal genes.Earth sciencesMichael C. Whitlock, Michael J. Wade
Stumped by trees? A generalized null model for patterns of organismal diversity.Earth sciencesJonathan B. Losos, Frederick R. Adler
Stunted growth and stepwise die-off in animal cohorts.Earth sciencesM. Scheffer, D.L. DeAngelis, J.M. Baveco, E.H.R.R. Lammens, B. Shuter
Surprising behavior from a familiar model and implications for competition theory. (Lotka-Volterra equations)Earth sciencesTed J. Case
Survival patterns and mortality sources of herbivorous insects: some demographic trends.Earth sciencesBradford A. Hawkins, Howard V. Cornell
Testing a metapopulation model of coexistence in the insect community on ragwort (Senecio jacobaea).Earth sciencesSusan Harrison, Chris D. Thomas, Thomas M. Lewinsohn
Testing hypotheses about evolutionary change on single branches of a phylogeny using evolutionary contrasts.Earth sciencesMark A. McPeek
The allometric scaling of density and body mass: a nonlinear relationship for terrestrial mammals.Earth sciencesMarina Silva, John A. Downing
The dynamics of insect-pathogen interactions in stage-structured populations.Earth sciencesH.C.J. Godfray, C.J. Briggs
The effect of mating probability on risk taking: an experimental study in lekking great snipe.Earth sciencesPeder Fiske, John Atle Kalas, Stein Are Saether
The Lack clutch in a communal breeder: lion litter size is a mixed evolutionarily stable strategy. (researcher David Lack)Earth sciencesA.E. Pusey, C. Packer
The mass exponent in population energy use: the fallacy of averages reconsidered.Earth sciencesF. Fernando Novoa, Francisco Bozinovic, Rodrigo G. Medel
Theory of evolution of nest parasitism in birds.Earth sciencesAtsushi Yamauchi
Unsaturated fish communities in African rivers.Earth sciencesBernard Hugueny, Didier Paugy
Updating Gillespie with controlled chaos. (J.H. Gillespie)Earth sciencesMichael Doebeli
Variation in male mating success on leks.Earth sciencesJ.D. Reynolds, A. Mackenzie, V.J. Brown, W.J. Sutherland
What are the costs of small egg size for a marine invertebrate with feeding planktonic larvae?Earth sciencesMichael W. Hart
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