Environmental disturbances such as drought can impact soil health and the resistance
(ability to withstand environmental stress) and resilience (ability to recover functional and …

Simple Summary The risk of parasitic infection has a major influence on animal behaviour.
Organisms must adjust their behaviour to avoid various modes of parasitic infection and …

Behavior, like most other traits, can have a spatial component, and variability of behavior at
the population level is predicted. In this article, we explore male mate choice at this level …

Males are often predicted to prefer virgin over non‐virgin females because of the reduced
risk of sperm competition. Does this prediction hold across studies? Our systematic meta …

Many animals devote substantial time, energy and resources to assessing nonmating social
partners. However, relatively little is known about how individual characteristics influence …

Human-induced climate change is leading to higher average global temperatures and
increasingly extreme weather events. High temperatures can have obvious effects on animal …

Highlights•Mating often leads to a reduction in how sexually responsive individuals are.•I
performed a meta-analysis comparing the effect of mating on responsiveness.•Across 26 …

Sexual selection has been a popular subject within evolutionary biology because of its
central role in explaining odd and counterintuitive traits observed in nature. Consequently …

The study of mate choice and sex roles has come a long way from the assumption that only
males are promiscuous and females are coy. However, fragments of this mindset might still …

Researchers studying mate choice typically face a common decision early in the
experimental design process: should I use mated or unmated (virgin) females? We ask this …