Experience in aggressive contests often affects behaviour during, and the outcome of, later
contests. This review discusses evidence for, variations in, and consequences of such …

Summary 1 Contests may involve injurious fighting, other types of direct physical aggression
and communication. They occur over ownership access to mates and other resources that …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

This research level text documents the latest advances in odonate biology and relates these
to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agenda. Despite being one of the …

I present a 'cumulative assessment model', which describes dyadic antagonistic encounters
in which a contestant's decision whether to persist or to flee is based upon a cumulative sum …

We know a great deal about territorial behavior, but perhaps not as much as we think we do.
The main theme of this chapter is that current ideas about the behavior of territorial animals …

Abstract Knowledge of characteristics that promote group success during intraspecific
encounters is key to understanding the adaptive advantages of sociality for many group …

Males of the damselfly Calopteryx splendens xanthostoma (Charpentier) demonstrate
territorial and non-territorial mate securing tactics. Non-territorial males obtain a territory in …

The relationship between body size and fitness components in odonates was examined
using a meta‐analysis of 33 published studies. There was a positive and significant overall …

A large number of sexual selection studies have focused on examining the morphological
and behavioural factors involved in male combat and female choice, such as whether large …