Table Of ContentJournal of
Animal
Ecology
Volume 66
1997
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Contents
Volume 66 Number 1 January 1997
Essay Review
Population regulation in mammals: an evolutionary perspective
J. O. WOLFF
Density dependence in fluctuating grey-sided vole populations
T. SAITOH, N. CHR. STENSETH & O. N. BJI@RNSTAD
The influence of numbers released on the outcome of attempts to introduce exotic bird species to New Zealand
R. E. GREEN
The roles of active predator choice and prey vulnerability in determining the diet of predatory stonefly (Plecoptera)
nymphs
P. TIKKANEN, T. MUOTKA, A. HUHTA & A. JUNTUNEN
Local and regional species richness in North American lacustrine fish
D. GRIFFITHS
Apparent competition between two aphid species
C. B. MULLER & H. C. J. GODFRAY
Mobile parasitoids may restrict the spatial spread of an insect outbreak
P. A. BRODMANN, C. V. WILCOX & S. HARRISON
The seasonal decline in the first-year survival of juvenile coots: an experimental approach
M. W. G. BRINKHOF, A. J. CAVE & A. C. PERDECK
Species composition and morphological structure of the bat fauna of Yucatan, Mexico
H. T. ARITA
Body size, diet and population density in Afrotropical forest mammals: a comparison with neotropical species
J. E. FA & A. PURVIS
Synchronization of hatching date with budburst of individual host trees (Quercus robur) in the winter moth (Operophtera
brumata) and its fitness consequences
S. VAN DONGEN, T. BACKELJAU, E. MATTHYSEN & A. A. DHONDT
Effects of individual habitat selection in a heterogeneous environment on fish cohort survivorship: a modelling analysis
J. A. TYLER & K. A. ROSE
Book Reviews
Editors’ Announcement
Instructions for Contributors
vi Volume 66 Number 2 March 1997
Volume 143 A rise in nest predation enhances the frequency of intraspecific brood parasitism in a moorhen population
Contents S. B. MCRAE
154 Life-history traits related to host selection in mycophagous drosophilids
M. J. TODA & M. T. KIMURA
167 Long-term effects of brood size manipulation on morphological development and sex-specific mortality of offspring
C. H. DE KOGEL
179 Cottonwood hybrid zones as centres of abundance for gall aphids in western North America: importance of relative
habitat size
K. D. FLOATE, G. D. MARTINSEN & T. G. WHITHAM
Effects of parental age and environmental change on offspring sex ratio in a precocial bird
E. COOCH, D. LANK, R. ROBERTSON & F. COOKE
Spatial strategies of wild Atlantic salmon parr: exploration and settlement in unfamiliar areas
J. D. ARMSTRONG, V. A. BRAITHWAITE & F. A. HUNTINGFORD
Prevalence, host specificity and impact on host fecundity of microparasites and epibionts in three sympatric Daphnia
species
H. A. STIRNADEL & D. EBERT
Predators use volatiles to avoid prey patches with conspecifies
A. JANSSEN, J. BRUIN, G. JACOBS, R. SCHRAAG & M. W. SABELIS
A critical assessment of the form of the interspecific relationship between abundance and body size in animals
T. M. BLACKBURN & K. J. GASTON
Interactive effects of sublethal nematodes and nutritional status on snowshoe hare vulnerability to predation
D. L. MURRAY, J. R. CARY & L. B. KEITH
Can sublethal parasitism destabilize predator-prey population dynamics? A model of snowshoe hares, predators and
parasites
A. R. IVES & D. L. MURRAY
Calcium availability limits breeding success of passerines on poor soils
J. GRAVELAND & R. H. DRENT
Forum paper
Mortality during dispersal stabilizes local population fluctuations
G. RUXTON, J. L. GONZALES-ANDUJAR & J. N. PERRY
Book Reviews
Errata
Volume 66 Number 3 May 1997
297 Flight costs, flight range and the stopover ecology of migrating birds
T. P. WEBER & A. I. HOUSTON
307 Life-history adaptations and reproductive costs associated with specialization in predacious insects
G. S. ALBUQUERQUE, M. J. TAUBER & C. A. TAUBER
Feeding success in African wild dogs: does kleptoparasitism by spotted hyaenas influence hunting group size?
C. CARBONE, J. T. DU TOIT & 1. J. GORDON
Differences in population density and energy use between birds and mammals: a macroecological perspective
M. SILVA, J. H. BROWN & J. A. DOWNING
Territorial behaviour and reproductive success of bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus females
E. KOSKELA, T. MAPPES & H. YLONEN
Interactive effects of prey and weather on golden eagle reproduction
K. STEENHOF, M. N. KOCHERT & T. L. MCDONALD
Thermal disruption of transitive hierarchies in Mediterranean ant communities
X. CERDA, J. RETANA & S. CROS
Phenology of winter moth feeding on common heather: effects of source population and experimental manipulation of
hatch dates
J. E. KERSLAKE & S. E. HARTLEY
The importance of adverse weather conditions for behaviour and population ecology of an aphid parasitoid
W. W. WEISSER, W. VOLKL & M. P. HASSELL
A test of habitat selection at two spatial scales in a sit-and-wait predator: a web spider in the Namib Desert dunes
J. R. HENSCHEL & Y. D. LUBIN
The demography and age-specific annual survival of song thrushes during periods of population stability and decline
D. L. THOMSON, S. R. BAILLIE & W. J. PEACH
Changes in proximate composition and estimates of energetic costs during upstream migration and spawning in Atlantic
salmon Salmo salar
N. JONSSON, B. JONSSON & L. P. HANSEN
Book Reviews
Erratum
vii Volume 65 Number 4 July 1997
Volume
439 Numbers and production of Eurasian wigeon in relation to conditions in a breeding area, Lake Myvatn, Iceland
Contents A. GARDARSSON & A. EINARSSON
452 Mass loss in breeding blue tits: the role of energetic stress
J. MERILA & D. A. WIGGINS
Interference competition at low competitor densities in blackbirds Turdus merula
W. CRESSWELL
Changing reproductive rates in a Neotropical forest rodent, Proechimys semispinosus
G. H. ADLER & R. P. BEATTY
Spatial patterns of depletion imposed by foraging vertebrates: theory, review and meta-analysis
P. M. DOLMAN & W. J. SUTHERLAND
Nutrient or energy limitation on egg formation: a feeding experiment in great tits
R. G. NAGER, C. RUEGGER & A. J. VAN NOORDWIJK
Modelling persistence in dynamic landscapes: lessons from a metapopulation of the grasshopper Bryodema tuberculata
C. STELTER, M. REICH, V. GRIMM & C. WISSEL
Self-thinning in juvenile sea trout and other salmonid fishes revisited
J. D. ARMSTRONG
Population limitation in Arctic ground squirrels: effects of food and predation
A. H. HUBBS & R. BOONSTRA
Dynamical effects of host size- and parasitoid state-dependent attacks by parasitoids
W. W. MURDOCH, C. J. BRIGGS & R. M. NISBET
The body size—population density relationship in tropical rocky intertidal communities
S. A. NAVARETTE & B. A. MENGE
Demographic and life-history variation in two proximate populations of a viviparous skink separated by a steep
altitudinal gradient
D. H. ROHR
Interspecific abundance-range size relationships: an appraisal of mechanisms
K. J. GASTON, T. M. BLACKBURN & J. H. LAWTON
602 Book Reviews
Volume 65 Number 5 September 1997
607 Small mustelid predation slows population growth of Microtus voles: a predator reduction experiment
T. KLEMOLA, M. KOIVULA, E. KORPIMAKI & K. NORRDAHL
The analysis of the spacing of animals, with an example based on oystercatchers during the tidal cycle
A. L. MOODY, W. A. THOMPSON, B. DE BRUIJN, A. I. HOUSTON & J. D. GOSS-CUSTARD
Food availability as a determinant of pairing behaviour in the European robin
J. TOBIAS
Causes of natal dispersal in the lesser kestrel: inbreeding avoidance or resource competition?
J. J. NEGRO, F. HIRALDO & J. A. DONAZAR
Nutritional constraints on egg production in the blue tit: a supplementary feeding study
S. L. RAMSAY & D. C. HOUSTON
Facultative helping does not influence reproductive success or survival in cooperatively breeding white-browed
scrubwrens
R. D. MAGRATH & S. M. YEZERINAC
Influence of conspecific attraction on the spatial distribution of learning foragers in a patchy habitat
G. BEAUCHAMP, M. BELISLE & L. A. GIRALDEAU
Experimental manipulation of brood reduction and parental care in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs
C. R. J. BOLAND, R. HEINSOHN & A. COCKBURN
Modelling interference from basic foraging behaviour
R. A. STILLMAN, J. D. GOSS-CUSTARD & R. W. G. CALDOW
Transitions in population dynamics: equilibria to periodic cycles to aperiodic cycles
B. DENNIS, R. A. DESHARNAIS, J. M. CUSHING & R. F. COSTANTINO
Interspecific abundance—occupancy relationships: a test of mechanisms using microcosms
P. H. WARREN & K. J. GASTON
Asymmetric interactions between species of seaweed fly
S. HODGE & W. ARTHUR
Spatial regulation and population growth in the wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus: experimental manipulations of males
and females in natural populations
W. I. MONTGOMERY, W. L. WILSON & R. W. ELWOOD
Forum paper
Species abundance patterns: the problem of testing stochastic models
L. F. BERSIER & G. SUGIHARA
Book Reviews
Erratum
viii Volume 65 Number 6 November 1997
Volume
781 Adaptation vs. constraint: intraclutch egg-mass variation in birds
Contents J. VINUELA
793 The effects of density on the zoanthid Palythoa caesia
J. E. TANNER
811 Range expansion of raptors in Britain and the Netherlands since the 1960s: testing an individual-based diffusion model
R. LENSINK
827 Immunocompetence of nestling barn swallows in relation to brood size and parental effort
N. SAINO, S. CALZA & A. P. MOLLER
The central-place territorial model does not apply to space-use by juvenile brook charr Salvelinus fontinalis in lakes
P. A. BIRO, M. S. RIDGWAY & D. L. G. NOAKES
Models of interference and their consequences for the spatial distribution of ideal and free predators
J. VAN DER MEER & B. J. ENS
Female-biased mortality in nestlings of a bird with size dimorphism
R. TORRES & H. DRUMMOND
Habitat profitability and choice in a sit-and-wait predator: juvenile salmon prefer slower currents on darker nights
N. B. METCALFE, S. K. VALDIMARSSON & N. H. C. FRASER
Effects of experience and risk of predation on the foraging behaviour of the South-eastern Pacific muricid Concholepas
concholepas (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
G. SERRA, G. CHELAZZI & J. C. CASTILLA
Consumption of fisheries discards by benthic scavengers: utilization of energy subsidies in different marine habitats
K. RAMSAY, M. J. KAISER, P. G. MOORE & R. N. HUGHES
Trophic resource partitioning and competition between the two sibling bat species Myotis myotis and Myotis blythii
R. ARLETTAZ, N. PERRIN & J. HAUSSER
Book Reviews
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