Publications

PUBLICATION LIST: MATTHEW B.V. BELL

 

2012

 

Bell, M.B.V., Nichols H.J., Gilchrist J.S., Cant M.A. & Hodge S.J. 2012. The cost of dominance: attempting to suppress subordinate reproduction reduces dominant female fitness in banded mongooses. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 279, 619-624.

 

H.J. Nichols, W. Amos, M.B.V. Bell, F. Mwanguhya, S. Kyabulima & M.A. Cant, 2012. Resource availability shapes patterns of helping effort in a cooperatively breeding mongoose. Animal Behaviour, in Press

 

H.J. Nichols, M.B.V. Bell, S.J Hodge & M.A. Cant, 2012. Resource limitation moderates the adaptive suppression of subordinate breeding in a cooperatively breeding mongoose. Behav. Ecol. 23:635-642.

 

 

2011

 

Hodge, S.J., Bell, M.B.V. & Cant M.A. 2011. Reproductive competition and the evolution of extreme birth synchrony in a cooperative mammal. Biol. Lett. 7, 54-56.

 

Radford, A.N., Bell, M.B.V., Hollen, L.I., Ridley, A.R. 2011. Singing for your supper: sentinel calling by kleptoparasites can mitigate the cost to victims. Evolution. 65, 900-906.

 

Hollen, L.I., Bell, M.B.V., Wade, H.M., Rose, R., Russell, A., Niven, F., Ridley, A.R. & Radford, A.N. 2011. Ecological conditions influence sentinel decisions. Anim. Behav. 82, 1435-1441.

 

Hollen, L.I., Bell, M.B.V., Russell, A., Niven, F., Ridley, A.R. & Radford A.N. 2011. Calling by concluding sentinels: Coordinating cooperation or revealing risk? PLOS1 6:e25010.

 

 

2010

Bell, M.B.V. 2010. Sex and age influence responses to changes in the cost of cooperative care in a social carnivore. Behav. Ecol. 21, 1118-1123.

 

Bell, M.B.V., Radford, A.N., Smith, R.A., Thompson, A.M. & Ridley, A.R. 2010. Bargaining babblers: vocal negotiation of cooperative behaviour in a social bird. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 277, 3223-3228.

 

Nichols, H.J., Amos, W., Bell, M.B.V., Cant, M.A. & Hodge, S.J. 2010. Top males gain high reproductive success by guarding more successful females in a cooperative mongoose. Anim. Behav. 80, 649-657.

 

Cant, M.A., Bell, M.B.V., Gilchrist, J.S., Nichols, H. & Hodge S.J. 2010. Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 277, 2219-2226.

 

Ridley, A.R., Raihani, N.J. & Bell, M.B.V. 2010. Experimental evidence that sentinel behaviour is affected by risk. Biol. Lett. 6, 445-448.

 

 

2009

Bell, M.B.V., Radford, A.N., Rose, R., Wade, H. & Ridley, A.R 2009. The value of constant surveillance in a risky environment. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 276, 729-735.

 

Radford, A.N., Hollen, L.I. & Bell, M.B.V. 2009. The higher the better: sentinel height influences foraging success in a social bird. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 276, 2437-2442.

 

Hodge, S.J., Bell, M.B.V., Mwanguhya, F., Kyabulima, S., Waldick, R.C. & Russell, A.F. 2009. Maternal weight, offspring competitive ability, and the evolution of communal breeding. Behav. Ecol. 20, 729-735.

 

Muller, C.A. & Bell, M.B.V. 2009. Kidnapping and infanticide between groups of banded mongooses. Mammalian Biology 74: 315-318.

 

 

2008

Bell, M.B.V. 2008. Strategic investment of begging effort by banded mongoose pups. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 275, 1313-1319.

 

Bell, M.B.V. 2008. Receiver identity modifies begging intensity independent of need in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) pups. Behav. Ecol. 19, 1087-1094.

 

Hollen, L.I., Bell, M.B.V. & Radford, A.N. 2008. Cooperative sentinel calling? Foragers gain increased biomass intake. Current Biology 18, 576-579.

 

 

2007

Bell, M.B.V. 2007. Cooperative begging in banded mongoose pups. Current Biology 17, 717-721.

 

Ridley, A.R., Child, M.F. & Bell, M.B.V. 2007. Interspecific audience effects on the alarm calling behaviour of a kleptoparasitic bird. Biol. Lett. 3, 589-591.

 

 

2001-2004

Manser, M.B. & Bell, M.B.V. 2004. Spatial representation of shelter locations in meerkats, Suricata suricatta. Anim. Behav. 68, 151-157.

 

Manser, M.B., Bell, M.B.V. & Fletcher, L.B. 2001. The information that receivers extract from alarm calls in suricates. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 268, 2485-2491.