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i Contents Volume Contents Volume 79, Issue 1, January 2010 In Focus Environmental variance, population growth and evolution TULJAPURKAR Review Considering ecological dynamics in resource selection functions P.D. M CLOUGHLIN, D. W MORRIS, FORTIN,E . VANDER WAL,A )NTAST Special ‘How to...’ paper Ane cologist o— the animal model J. WILSON, D. REALE, M. N. CLEMENTS, M. M. MORRISSEY,E . P' Behavioural ecology Energetic costs of male reproduction in a scramble competition mating system i: LANE, S BOUTIN, j.R SPEAKMAN M. M. H! MPHRIES Sexual division of antibacterial resource defence in breeding burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides TTER, R M Ki LNER Synchronous provisioning increases brood survival in pee breeding pied babblers J, RAIHANI,M NELSON-FLOWER, K. MOYES, L. E. BROWNING, A. R. R Diett selection in a molluscivore shorebird across Western come does it show short- or long-term intake rate- maximization? 3. QUAINTENNE,J . A. VAN GILS, P. BOCHER, A. DEKINGA, T. PIERSMA Negotiation of parernt al care when the stakes are high: experimental handicapping of one partner during incubation leads to short-term generosity K. L. WIEBE Parabiotic associations between tropical ants: equal partnership or parasitic exploitation? F. MENZEL, N. BLUTHGEN Differential effects of moving versus stationary territorial intruders on territory defence in a songbird . AMRHEIN, S. LERCH Interacting effects of predation risk and signal patchiness on activity and communication in house mice N. K. HUGHES, P. B. BANKS Climate ecology The phenology mismatch hypothesis: are declines of migrant birds linked to uneven global climate change? T. JONES, W. CRESSWELL Demography Stochastic demography and population dynamics in the red kangaroo Macropus rufus N. JONZEN, T. POPLE, J. KNAPE, M. SKOLL Survival and breeding ofp olar bears in the ssoo uthern Beaufort Seai n relation tos ea ice E. V. REGEHR, C. M. HUNTER,H . CASWEL AMSTR RLIN' Influence ofc limate and reproductii vee timingo nn demography of little brown myotis Myotis lucifugus W. F. FRICK, D. SCOTT REYNOLDS,T . H. KUN Evolutionary ecology Transgressive aggression in Sceloporus we onfers fitness through advantages in male agonistic encounters T.R . ROBBINS, J. N. PRUITT, L. E. STRAUB, E M Y,H MUSHINSKY Can compensat ” neo ffse tu ndesirable evchleo nary consequences of trophy hunting? A. MYSTERUD, R. BIS peste sbi a individual feeding specialization may promote speciation R. KNUDSEN, R. PRIMICERIO, P.-A. AMUNDSEN, A. KLEMETSEN Life histories gon ion date — ts littert‘ y pea nd foetal sex ratio in female moose in Estonia VEEROAU.A KI,RK , V. TILGAR, S. SADE, M. KREITSBERG, J. TONISSON ordi senescence in 2co operatively breeding mammal SHARP, T. H. CLUTTON-BROCK iene investment ana ize-specific reproducti ive oan in carcharhinid sharks N. E. HUSSEY, S. P. WINTNER, S. F. J. DUDLEY, G. CLIFF, D. )CKS,M . AARON MACNEIL Macroecology What determines a species’ geographical range? Thermal biology and latitudinal range size relationships in European diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) P. CALOSI, D. T. BILTON, J. |. SPICER, S. C. VOTIER, A. ATFIELL Physiological ecology Evidence for an intrinsic energetic ceiling in free-ranging kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla J. WELCKER, B. MOE, C. BECH, M. FYHN, J. SCHULTNER, J. R. SPEAKMAN, G. W. GABRIELSEN Population ecology Habitat-specific differences in adult survival rates and its links to parental workload and on-nest predation M. LOW, D. ARLT, S. EGGERS, T. PART iV Identifying predators clarifies predictors of nest success in a temperate passerine Volume T. J. BENSON, J. D. BROWN, J. C. BEDNARZ Contents Does dispersal control population densities in advection-dominated systems? A fresh look at critical assumptions anda direct test B. J. DOWNES, J. LANCASTER Allometric functional response model: body masses constrain interaction strengths 0. VUCIC-PESTIC, B. C. RALL, G. KALINKAT, U. BROSE Effects of competition on great and blue tit reproduction: intensity and importance in relation to habitat quality A. A. DHONDT Habitat-specific demography and source—sink dynamics in a population of Siberian jays M. NYSTRAND, M. GRIESSER, S. EGGERS, J. EKMAN Spatial ecology Seagrass patch size affects fish responses to edges T. M. SMITH, J. S. HINDELL, G. P. JENKINS, R. M. CONNOLLY Effect of non-random dispersal strategies on spatial coexistence mechanisms P. AMARASEKARE Classic metapopulations are rare among common beetle species from a naturally fragmented landscape D. A. DRISCOLL, J. B. KIRKPATRICK, P. B. MCQUILLAN, K. J. BONHAM Volume 79, Issue 2, March 2010 In Focus 305 Transgenerational immune priming as cryptic parental care J. JOKELA Review Analysis of variance with unbalanced data: an update for ecology & evolution A. HECTOR, S. VON FELTEN, B. SCHMID Behavioural ecology Breeding dispersal in black-headed gull: the value of familiarity in a contrasted environment G. PERON, J.-D. LEBRETON, P.-A. CROCHET Habitat selection as an antipredator behaviour in a multi-predator landscape: all enemies are not equal C. MOROSINOTTO, R. L. THOMSON, E. KORPIMAK! Survival benefits of post-fledging care: experimental approach to a critical part of avian reproductive strategies M. U. GRUEBLER, B. NAEF-DAENZER Climate ecology Interacting effects of density and temperature on body size in multiple populations of Chinook salmon L. G. CROZIER, R. W. ZABEL, E. £. HOCKERSMITH, S. ACHORD Tits on the move: exploring the impact of environmental change on blue tit and great tit migration distance |. M. SMALLEGANGE, W. FIEDLER, U. KOPPEN, 0. GEITER, F. BAIRLEIN Community ecology Lizard community structure along environmental gradients L. B. BUCKLEY, W. JETZ Urbanization and the more-individuals hypothesis C. CHIARI, M. DINETTI, C. LICCIARDELLO, G. LICITRA, M. PAUTASSO Large herbivores facilitate savanna tree establishment via diverse and indirect pathways J. R. GOHEEN, T. M. PALMER, F. KEESING, C. RIGINOS, T. P. YOUNG Resource partitioning or reproductive isolation: the ecological role of body size differences among closely related species in sympatry Y. OKUZAKI, Y. TAKAMI, T. SOTA Ecosystems Estimating terrestrial contribution to stream invertebrates and periphyton using a gradient-based mixing model for 8'°C J. B. RASMUSSEN ~ Evolutionary ecology Paternally derived immune priming for offspring in the red flour beetle, 7ribolium castaneum 0. ROTH, G. JOOP, H. EGGERT, J. HILBERT, J. DANIEL, P. SCHMID-HEMPEL, J. KURTZ Phenotypic correlates of hybridisation between red and sika deer (genus Cervus) H. V. SENN, G. M. SWANSON, S. J. GOODMAN, N. H. BARTON, J. M. PEMBERTON Life histories Pulsed resources affect the timing of first breeding and lifetime reproductive success of tawny owls A. MILLON, S. J. PETTY, X. LAMBIN Dynamic heterogeneity and life history variability in the kittiwake U. K. STEINER, S. TULJAPURKAR, S. H. ORZACK Parasite and disease ecology Trematode infection causes malformations and population effects in a declining New Zealand fish D. W. KELLY, H. THOMAS, D. W. THIELTGES, R. POULIN, D. M. TOMPKINS V Population ecology Volume Hierarchical modelling and estimation of abundance and population trends in metapopulation designs Contents M. KERY, J. ANDREW ROYLE The effect of seasonality, density and climate on the population dynamics of Montana deer mice, important reservoir hosts for Sin Nombre hantavirus A. D. LUIS, R. J. DOUGLASS, J. N. MILLS, 0. N. BJ@RNSTAD Seasonal effects of Pacific-based climate on recruitment in a predator-limited large herbivore T. M. HEGEL, A. MYSTERUD, T. ERGON, L. E. LOE, F. HUETTMANN, N. C. STENSETH Spatial ecology Edge behaviour in a minute parasitic wasp J. D. REEVE, J. T. CRONIN How do landscape composition and configuration, organic farming and fallow strips affect the diversity of bees, wasps and their parasitoids? A. HOLZSCHUH, |. STEFFAN-DEWENTER, T. TSCHARNTKE Relating juvenile spatial distribution to breeding patterns in anadromous salmonid populations A. FOLDVIK, A. G. FINSTAD, S. EINUM Volume 79, Issue 3, May 2010 In Focus 511 Safety in numbers: extinction arising from predator-driven Allee effects S. D. GREGORY, F. COURCHAMP Behavioural ecology Reproductive competition favours solitary living while ecological constraints impose group-living in African striped mice C. SCHRADIN, B. KONIG, N. PILLAY Site selection and resource depletion in black-tailed godwits Limosa /. limosa eating rice during northward migration P. M. LOURENGO, F. S. MANDEMA, J. C. E. W. HOOUMEWER, J. P. GRANADEIRO, T. PIERSMA Consequences of ‘load-lightening’ for future indirect fitness gains by helpers in a cooperatively breeding bird J. MEADE, K.~B. NAM, A. P. BECKERMAN, B. J. HATCHWELL Personality, space use and tick load in an introduced population of Siberian chipmunks Tamias sibiricus N. BOYER, D. REALE, J. MARMET, B. PISANU, J.-L. CHAPUIS Mixed conditional logistic regression for habitat selection studies T. DUCHESNE, D. FORTIN, N. COURBIN Predator-hunting success and prey vulnerability: quantifying the spatial scale over which lethal and non-lethal effects of predation occur W. CRESSWELL,J . LIND, J. L. QUINN Community ecology Mating behaviour, life history and adaptation to insecticides determine species exclusion between whiteflies D. W. CROWDER, A. RAMI HOROWITZ, P. J. DE BARRO, S.-S. LIU, A. M. SHOWALTER, S. KONTSEDALOV, V. KHASDAN, A. SHARGAL, Dendritic network structure constrains metacommunity properties in riverine ecosystems B. L. BROWN, C. M. SWAN Evolutionary ecology Rensch’s rule inverted — female-driven gigantism in nine-spined stickleback Pungitius pungitius G. HERCZEG, A. GONDA, J. MERILA Macroecology Explaining abundance—occupancy relationships in specialists and generalists: a case study on aquatic macroinvertebrates in standing waters W. C. E. P. VERBERK, G. VAN DER VELDE, H. ESSELINK Parasite and disease ecology Differential effects of experimental increases in sociality on ectoparasites of free-ranging raccoons R.J . MONELLO, M. E. GOMPPER Physiological ecology Scaling of basal metabolic rate with body mass and temperature in mammals A. CLARKE, P. ROTHERY, N. J. B. ISAAC Population ecology The effect of phenotypic traits and external cues on natal dispersal movements M. DEL MAR DELGADO, V. PENTERIANI, E. REVILLA, V. 0. NAMS Experimental demonstration of population extinction due to a predator-driven Allee effect A. M. KRAMER, J. M. DRAKE Cohort variation in offspring growth and survival: prenatal and postnatal factors in a late-maturing viviparous snake J.-P. BARON, J.-F. LE GALLIARD, T. TULLY, R. FERRIERE Population dynamics of an Arctiid caterpillar—tachinid parasitoid system using state-space models R. KARBAN, P. DE VALPINE Density as an explanatory variable of movements and calf survival in savanna elephants across southern Africa K. D. YOUNG, R. J. VAN AARDE Long foraging distances impose high costs on offspring production in solitary bees A. ZURBUCHEN, S. CHEESMAN, J. KLAIBER, A. MULLER, S. HEIN, S. DORN vi Trophic interactions Volume Interaction strength, food web topology and the relative importance of species in food webs Contents E. J. O GORMAN, U. JACOB, T. JONSSON, M. C. EMMERSON The interacting effects of temperature and food chain length on trophic abundance and ecosystem function 0.S . BEVERIDGE, S. HUMPHRIES, 0. L. PETCHEY Arepo pulation outbreaks in sub-arctic geometrids terminated by larval parasitoids? SCHOTT, S. B. HAGEN, R. A. IMS, N. G. YOCCOZ Effecto f plant species loss on aphid—parasitoid communities S. PETERMANN, C. B. MULLER, A. WEIGELT, W. W. WEISSER, B. SCHMID 721 Editors’ Note: Elton Prizewinner 722 Erratum Volume 79, Issue 4, July 2010 In Focus 723 Red in tooth and claw: how top predators shape terrestrial ecosystems N. JOHNSON Review Maximal heatd issipation capacity and hyperthermia risk: neglected key factors in the ecology of endotherms R. SPEAKMAN. E. KROL Behavioural ecology How well do food distributions predict spatial distributions of shorebirds with different degrees of self-organization? 0. FOLMER, H. OLFF, T. PIERSMA Multti ple benefits of cooperative breeding in purple-crowned fairy-wrens: a consequence of fidelity? S. A. KINGMA, M. L. HALL,E . ARRIERO, A. PETERS ‘Take-away’ foraging spatially uncouples — and prey-attack distributions . M. SMALLEGANGE, J. VAN DER MEER, M. W. SABELIS Climate ecology Climate change affects the duration of the ene season in birds AA. PP . MMO@ILLIEERR, FE.E FFLLEENNCSTTEEND--JJEENNSCEENN, W\. MARDAL, J. TT . NINFIIELCSEEAN Community ecology Top predators, mesopredators and their prey: interference ecosystems along bioclimatic productivity gradients B. ELMHAGE N, G.L JDWIG, S. P.R USHTON, P. HELLE, H.L INDEN popes between community assembly and habitat selection shape variation in localc olonization . KRAUS, J. R. VONESH Detfe rministica ssembly of land snail communities according to species size and diet B. SCHAMP,M . HORSAK, M. HAJEK Nestedness versus modularity in ecological networks: two sides of the same coin? M. A. FORTUNA, D. B. STOUFFER, J. M. OLESEN, P. JORDANO, D. MOUILLOT, B. R. KRASNOV, R. POULIN, J. BASCOMPTE Responses to olfactory signals reflect network structure of flower-visitor interactions R. R. JUNKER, N. HOCHERL, N. BLUTHGEN Bird community fesponse to fruit energy V. E. PETERS,R . MORDECAI, C. RONALD CARROLL, R. J. COOPER, R. GREENBERG Evolutionary ecology Latitudinal variation in breeding time reaction norms in a passerine bird P. GIENAPP, R. A. VAISANEN, J. E.B ROMMER Male health status, opp - courtship —. reveals ejaculate quality and hatching success in a lekking species R. CHARGE, M. SAINT JALME, F. LACROIX,A . CADET, G. SORC Life histories Parent age, lifespan and offspring survival: structured variation in life history in a wild population . M. REID, E. M. BIGNAL, S. BIGNAL, D. |.M CCRACKEN, M. |. BOGDANOVA, P. MONAGHAN Parasite and disease ecology Host behaviour and exposure risk in an insect-pathogen interaction B. J. PARKER, B. D. ELDERD, G. DWYER Population ecoiogy Complete compensation in Daphnia fecundity and stage-specific biomass in response to size-independent mortality K. A. NILSSON, L. PERSSON, T. VAN KOOTEN Small-scale dispersal and survival in a long-lived seabird, the wandering albatross G. GAUTHIER, E. MILOT, H. WEIMERSKIRCH Diff erences in population size variability among populations and species of the family Salmonidae N. A. DOCHTERMANN, M. M. PEACOCK 7 Age-_ — response of a migratory bird to an experimental alteration of its habitat S. HACHE, M.A. VILLARD Spatial ecology Animal movement, search strategies and behavioural ecology: a cross-disciplinary way forward L. GIUGGIOLI, F. BARTUMEUS vii Forage quantity, quality and depletion as scale-dependent mechanisms driving habitat selection of a large browsing Volume herbivore Contents F, M. VAN BEST Trophic interactions Root herbivores and detritivores shape above-ground multitrophic assemblage through plant-mediated effects Volume 79, Issue 5, September 2010 In Focus Partial migration in tropical Dirus: the frontier of movement ECOl0gy Review M echani sms dri ving ch ange: altered species interactions and ecosystem function through global warming M Behavioural ecology The nuclearq uestion: rethinki Ings pecies mportancie n multi-species animal groups caialean croc adille s rides urface currents tto f acilitate metas travel AMPRE M. f K R FRANKLIN Soci al ‘meltdown’ in tlhe ede miseoo f an island endemic: Allee effectsa ndt he Vancouver Island marmot Cam Overv oli cts revealr eprodua vB costs na long-distance migrant SER. X. A. HARR Determir nantso f partial bitr d mlii gratiio n in the Amazon Basin Climate ecology er inducible delen ces enhance persistence of intraguild prey P_KKRR ATINA, 4+AMMM AN H Community ecology Prey dispersal rate affects prey species composition and trait diversity in response to multiple predators in metacommunities 3 HOWETH. M. A. LEIB Does size matter? An investigation of habitat use across a carnivore assemb! lag|e in theS ereni get M DURRAANN T, M. E.C RA F FOLEY. a K.H AN NA BOR A,M . SUHA. MSUHA F. EBLAaT E BUKKOOMMBBEE , PF TTORE Local exposure— — ial ee ni vity and community structure of Daphnia parasites M. JANSEN,R OKS, f KE VAN DE MEUTTER, & MEESTER Demography Empirical evidence « senescence in adultd fliesS (Odonattaa Zygoptera) SHERRATT. R. A R 4ASSA i HARVE WAT Experiencc e-d ependent natal phiopar y of breedingg etf lami ngos AN, R QUET R Evolutionary ecology Phenott ype-e nvironment correlations in a putative whitefish adaptive radiation MALLELA, K. K. KAHILAINEN The reaction norm of sizea nd age at maturity under multiple predator risk A. P. BECKERMAN. G. M. RODGERS, S. R. DENN! Vertical distribution, tightb ehavioura ndev olutioon wing morphologyi n Morpho butterflie Life histories Can selection on nest size from nest predation explain the latitudinal gradient in clutch size? Molecular ecology Condition-dependent, phenotype-dependent and genetic-dependent factors in the natal dispersal of a solitary rodent SELONEN, |. K. HANSKI Population ecology Match or mismatch thei nfluence of phenology on size-dependent life history and divergence in population structure J. BORCHERDING, P. BEECK, L. DEANGEL iS , W R. SCHARF Drivers of growth variatt ion in juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): an elasticity analysis approach R. S. DAVIDSON, B. H. LETCHER, K. H. NISLOW Trophic interactions Food-web composi tion affects cross-ecosystem interactions and subsidies G. Q. ROMERO, D. S. SRIVASTAVA viii 1132 Carbon isotope fractionation of amino acids in fish muscle reflects biosynthesis and isotopic routing from dietary protein Volume K. W. MCMAHON, M. L. FOGEL, T. S. ELSDON, S. R. THOROLD Contents Volume 79, Issue 6, November 2010 In Focus 1143 Alarge trophic quilt T. M. LEWINSOHN Behavioural ecology Measurements of foraging success in a highly pelagic marine predator, the northern elephant seal P. W. ROBINSON, S. E. SIMMONS, D. £. CROCKER, D. P. COSTA Inference from habitat-selection analysis depends on foraging strategies G. BASTILLE-ROUSSEAU, D. FORTIN, C. DUSSAULT Community ecology Predator identity and the nature and strength of food web interactions L. M. HENRY, J. A. BANNERMAN, D. R. GILLESPIE, B. D. ROITBERG Food supplementation leads to bottom-up and top-down food—host—parasite interactions L. ZANETTE, M. CLINCHY A phylogenetic approach to disentangling the role of competition and habitat filtering in community assembly of Neotropical forest birds J. P. GOMEZ, G. A. BRAVO, R. T. BRUMFIELD, J. G. TELLO, C. D. CADENA Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant—herbivore food webs from a tropical forest V. NOVOTNY, S. E. MILLER, L. BAJE, S. BALAGAWI, Y. BASSET, L. CIZEK, K. J. CRAFT, F. DEM, R.A.I. DREW, J. HULCR, J. LEPS, 0.1. LEWIS, R. POKON, A.J.A. STEWART, G. ALLAN SAMUELSON, G.D.WEIBLEN ; = Disentangling the mechanistic drivers of ecosystem-size effects on species diversity T. J. BLAKELY, R. K. DIDHAM Different but equal: the implausible assumption at the heart of neutral theory D. W. PURVES, L. A. TURNBULL Demography Using evolutionary demography to link life history theory, quantitative genetics and population ecology T. COULSON, S. TULJAPURKAR, D. Z. CHILDS Evolutionary ecology Ecological differentiation between coexisting sexual and asexual strains of Daphnia pulex M. P. LEHTO, C. R. HAAG Individual variation in rates of senescence: natal origin effects and disposable soma in a wild bird population S. BOUWHUIS, A. CHARMANTIER, S. VERHULST, B. C. SHELDON Life histories Phenotypic quality influences fertility in Gombe chimpanzees J. H. JONES, M. L. WILSON, C. MURRAY, A. PUSEY Population ecology Seasonality in the strength and spatial scale of processes determining intertidal barnacle population growth K. FUKAYA, T. OKUDA, M. NAKAOKA, M. HORI, T. NODA How does local weather predict red deer home range size at different temporal scales? |. M. RIVRUD, L. E. LOE, A. MYSTERUD Cohort variation, climate effects and population dynamics in a short-lived lizard J. F. LE GALLIARD, 0. MARQUIS, M. MASSOT The legacy of dispersal: larval experience shapes persistence later in the life of a reef fish J. S. SHIMA, S. E. SWEARER Spatial ecology Movement behaviour within and beyond perceptual ranges in three small mammals: effects of matrix type and body mass J. A. PREVEDELLO, G. FORERO-MEDINA, M. V. VIEIRA Trophic interactions Direct and indirect effects of temperature on the population dynamics and ecosystem functioning of aquatic microbial ecosystems 0. S. BEVERIDGE, 0. L. PETCHEY, S. HUMPHRIES x