Predators and the breeding bird: behavioral and reproductive flexibility under the risk of predation

SL Lima - Biological reviews, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that breeding birds have a significant capacity
to assess and respond, over ecological time, to changes in the risk of predation to both …

Habitat–performance relationships: finding the right metric at a given spatial scale

JM Gaillard, M Hebblewhite… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The field of habitat ecology has been muddled by imprecise terminology regarding what
constitutes habitat, and how importance is measured through use, selection, avoidance and …

Social information use is a process across time, space, and ecology, reaching heterospecifics

JT Seppänen, JT Forsman, M Mönkkönen… - Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Decision making can be facilitated by observing other individuals faced with the same or
similar problem, and recent research suggests that this social information use is a …

Research needs and recommendations for the use of conspecific-attraction methods in the conservation of migratory songbirds

MA Ahlering, D Arlt, MG Betts, RJ Fletcher Jr… - The Condor, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Numerous studies have confirmed that when selecting habitat birds can use social
information acquired from observing other individuals, and many aspects of this social …

Interspecific social learning: novel preference can be acquired from a competing species

JT Seppänen, JT Forsman - Current Biology, 2007 - cell.com
Nongenetic transmission of behavioral traits via social learning allows local traditions in
humans, and, controversially, in other animals [1–4]. Social learning is usually studied as an …

Immigrant birds learn from socially observed differences in payoffs when their environment changes

M Chimento, G Alarcón-Nieto, LM Aplin - PLoS biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Longstanding theory predicts that strategic flexibility in when and how to use social
information can help individuals make adaptive decisions, especially when environments …

Friendship across species borders: factors that facilitate and constrain heterospecific sociality

H Sridhar, V Guttal - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Our understanding of animal sociality is based almost entirely on single-species sociality.
Heterospecific sociality, although documented in numerous taxa and contexts, remains at …

Antipredator calls of tufted titmice and interspecific transfer of encoded threat information

SA Hetrick, KE Sieving - Behavioral Ecology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Birds in family Paridae (titmice and chickadees) produce complex and distinct alarm
vocalizations in response to predator encounters. In 2 controlled aviary experiments, we …

Competitor density cues for habitat quality facilitating habitat selection and investment decisions

JT Forsman, MB Hjernquist, J Taipale… - Behavioral …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The theory of species coexistence predicts avoidance between species that compete for
similar resources. Recent studies, however, have suggested that facilitation is also possible …

New behavioural trait adopted or rejected by observing heterospecific tutor fitness

JT Seppänen, JT Forsman… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animals can acquire behaviours from others, including heterospecifics, but should be
discriminating in when and whom to copy. Successful individuals should be preferred as …