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Behavioral Ecology

Behavioral ecology is the subdiscipline of ecology that investigates how ecological pressures and natural selection shape the evolution of animal behavior as adaptive responses contributing to individual fitness and survival.

65K

Publications

3.9M

Citations

80.1K

Authors

9K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

10.3K

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Publications

65K

Program MARK: survival estimation from populations of marked animals

Gary C. White, Kenneth P. Burnham · Bird Study · 1999 · 7.6K citations

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The Logic of Animal Conflict

John Maynard Smith, George Price · Nature · 1973 · 6.2K citations

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Some Characteristics of Simple Types of Predation and Parasitism

C. S. Holling · The Canadian Entomologist · 1959 · 4.6K citations

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Modeling Survival and Testing Biological Hypotheses Using Marked Animals: A Unified Approach with Case Studies

Jean‐Dominique Lebreton, Kenneth P. Burnham, Jean Clobert et al. · Ecological Monographs · 1992 · 4.6K citations

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On Optimal Use of a Patchy Environment

Robert H. MacArthur, Eric R. Pianka · The American Naturalist · 1966 · 4.5K citations

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Authors

80.1K

  1. DW
    David W. Macdonald

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    169 publications · 13.7K citations

    67

    h-index

  2. DT
    Daniel T. Blumstein

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    186 publications · 15.4K citations

    63

    h-index

  3. AS
    Andrew Sih

    University of California, Davis, United States

    111 publications · 20.3K citations

    58

    h-index

  4. DP
    Douglas P. Chivers

    University of Saskatchewan, Canada

    139 publications · 8.8K citations

    57

    h-index

  5. RS
    Richard Shine

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    193 publications · 12.2K citations

    57

    h-index

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Institutions

9K

  1. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    140 h-index

    1.6K publications

    138.1K citations

  2. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    136 h-index

    1.9K publications

    193.1K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    130 h-index

    1.5K publications

    127.3K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    122 h-index

    4.2K publications

    221.2K citations

  5. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    118 h-index

    1.3K publications

    90.4K citations

  6. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    110 h-index

    875 publications

    68K citations

  7. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    108 h-index

    1.2K publications

    93.9K citations

  8. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    103 h-index

    738 publications

    61.5K citations

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Venues

  1. Ecology

    1.3K publications · 166.4K citations

    204

    h-index

  2. Animal Behaviour

    4K publications · 298.5K citations

    202

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  3. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

    1.4K publications · 127.9K citations

    178

    h-index

  4. The American Naturalist

    AN · 946 publications · 123.9K citations

    172

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  5. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    1.9K publications · 143K citations

    164

    h-index

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See also

Behavioral Ecology

Core Methods

Key Theories

Behavioral Strategies

Ecological Drivers

Fitness Outcomes