Flock Foraging in Nectar-Feeding Bats: Advantages to the Bats and to the Host Plants

Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems

2001 • 5,169 citations

Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem

1976 • 5,081 citations

Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests

1970 • 4,587 citations

Principles of Pollination Ecology

1979 • 3,598 citations

Theory of Feeding Strategies

1971 • 3,488 citations

Geometry for the selfish herd

1971 • 3,348 citations

The Functional Response of Predators to Prey Density and its Role in Mimicry and Population Regulation

1965 • 2,502 citations

Flowering Plants. Evolution above the Species Level

1975 • 1,451 citations

Inquiries into human faculty and its development.

1919 • 1,348 citations

On the advantages of flocking

1973 • 1,290 citations

Tropical Crops: Monocotyledons

1973 • 878 citations

Self-thinning in overcrowded pure stands under cultivated and natural conditions

1963 • 854 citations

Mammals of the World

1969 • 765 citations

The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex

1976 • 699 citations

The evolution of behavior

1975 • 625 citations

Energetics and Pollination Ecology

1972 • 587 citations

Ecology, Flowering Phenology, and Hummingbird Pollination of Some Costa Rican Heliconia Species

1975 • 554 citations

The social life of animals

1938 • 521 citations

Economics of Feeding Territoriality in the Golden‐Winged Sunbird

1975 • 512 citations

Foraging Patterns and Resource Utilization in Seven Species of Bats in a Seasonal Tropical Forest

1975 • 482 citations

Energetics of Pollination

1975 • 470 citations

Predators and Anti-Predator Behaviour of the Black-Headed Gull (Larus ridibundus L.)

1965 • 402 citations

The Food Searching Behaviour of Two European Thrushes. Ii: the Adaptiveness of the Search Patterns

1974 • 331 citations

Ecological Organization of a Tropical, Highland Hummingbird Community

1976 • 305 citations

Mutual Interference between Searching Insect Parasites

1971 • 293 citations

Finch flocks in the Mohave Desert

1971 • 290 citations

The importance of atmospheric attenuation for the echolocation of bats (Chiroptera)

1971 • 276 citations

Bird Metabolism During Flight: Evaluation of A Theory

1973 • 262 citations

Risk of visual detection and pursuit by a predator and the selective advantage of flocking behaviour

1971 • 262 citations

Ecological Determinants of Group Sizes of Foraging Lions

1975 • 252 citations

The Adaptation of Flowering Plants to Nocturnal and Crepuscular Pollinators

1961 • 238 citations

Social learning and the significance of mixed-species flocks of chickadees (Parus spp.)

1973 • 236 citations

Time and Energy Budgets of Territorial Hummingbirds

1971 • 223 citations

FEEDING ECOLOGY OF THE BLACK‐FACED DIOCHQUELEA QUELEAIN NIGERIA

1965 • 208 citations

An ecological study of chimpanzees in a savanna woodland

1969 • 188 citations

Social Organization of some Trinidad Bats

1974 • 167 citations

Aerodynamics, Kinematics, and Energetics of Horizontal Flapping Flight in the Long-Eared Bat Plecotus Auritus

1976 • 163 citations

Metabolism during flight in two species of bats, Phyllostomus hastatus and Pteropus gouldii

1975 • 161 citations

ADAPTIVE SHIFT AND DISPERSAL IN A TROPICAL ANT FAUNA

1959 • 160 citations

Flocking Behavior in Birds

1952 • 134 citations

Bird Flocks and the Breeding Cycle. A Contribution to the Study of Avian Sociality

1938 • 123 citations

Energetics of Foraging: Rate and Efficiency of Nectar Extraction by Hummingbirds

1972 • 122 citations

The Daily Energy Requirements of a Wild Anna Hummingbird

1954 • 111 citations

Food habits of some Costa Rican bats.

1973 • 104 citations

Karyotypes of Bats of the Family Phyllostomidae and Their Taxonomic Implications

1967 • 100 citations

A Mathematical Model of Coevolving Populations

1977 • 99 citations

Flight Speeds in Western Bats

1964 • 98 citations

THE POLLINATION OFPARKIABY BATS AND ITS ATTENDANT EVOLUTIONARY PROBLEMS

1957 • 97 citations

Social Organization and Behavior of the Mexican Jay

1963 • 88 citations

THE FUNCTION OF PRE‐ROOST GATHERINGS AND COMMUNAL ROOSTS

1971 • 86 citations

Energetics of nectar extraction in a small, high altitude, tropical hummingbird,Selasphorus flammula

1972 • 86 citations

Social feeding behavior of birds

1954 • 79 citations

Food quality and foraging efficiency

1974 • 78 citations

The Story of Pollination.

1962 • 78 citations

EVOLUTION OF PAIR COOPERATION IN A TROPICAL HUMMINGBIRD

1970 • 75 citations

Optimal Foraging in Glossophagine Bats: When to Give Up

1980 • 73 citations

Orientation of starlings after displacement to Spain

1967 • 72 citations

Feeding adaptations in the hairs and tongues of nectar‐feeding bats

1976 • 70 citations

The Agave Family in Sonora

1973 • 54 citations

Physiological responses to temperature in the long-nosed bat, Leptonycteris sanborni

1967 • 50 citations

Fish School Size and Migration

1969 • 50 citations

The Reproductive Biology of Agavaceae: I. Pollen and Nectar Production in Four Arizona Agaves

1977 • 47 citations

Some Predator-Prey Relationships in Bird Damage and Population Control

1968 • 25 citations

Associations of Small Insectivorous Birds

1934 • 19 citations

PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS IN THE SYNDROME OF CHIROPTEROPHILY WITH EMPHASIS ON THE BAT, LEPTONYCTERIS, LYDEKKER

1972 • 15 citations