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- Bachelors Biology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jonathan Neal Pruitt is a former academic researcher. He was an Associate Professor of behavioral ecology and Canada 150 Research Chair in Biological Dystopias at McMaster University. Pruitt's research focused primarily on animal personalities and the social behavior of spiders and other organisms.
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- Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes. (2012) (767)
- Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels (2014) (270)
- How within-group behavioural variation and task efficiency enhance fitness in a social group (2011) (184)
- The keystone individual concept: an ecological and evolutionary overview (2014) (172)
- Behavioural syndromes and their fitness consequences in a socially polymorphic spider, Anelosimus studiosus (2008) (169)
- Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions (2014) (124)
- Evidence of social niche construction: persistent and repeated social interactions generate stronger personalities in a social spider (2014) (122)
- Behavioral Types of Predator and Prey Jointly Determine Prey Survival: Potential Implications for the Maintenance of Within-Species Behavioral Variation (2011) (110)
- RETRACTED: Linking levels of personality: personalities of the ‘average’ and ‘most extreme’ group members predict colony-level personality (2013) (94)
- Intraspecific trait variants determine the nature of interspecific interactions in a habitat-forming species. (2011) (91)
- Personality composition is more important than group size in determining collective foraging behaviour in the wild (2014) (90)
- The personality types of key catalytic individuals shape colonies' collective behaviour and success (2014) (87)
- Individual personalities shape task differentiation in a social spider (2013) (84)
- Sex matters: sexually dimorphic fitness consequences of a behavioural syndrome (2009) (79)
- Population differences in behaviour are explained by shared within‐population trait correlations (2010) (78)
- Frequency-Dependent Success of Cheaters During Foraging Bouts Might Limit Their Spread within Colonies of a Socially Polymorphic Spider (2009) (70)
- Animal personality aligns task specialization and task proficiency in a spider society (2014) (69)
- Varying predator personalities generates contrasting prey communities in an agroecosystem. (2015) (68)
- Juvenile exposure to acoustic sexual signals from conspecifics alters growth trajectory and an adult personality trait (2012) (63)
- Exploring the effects of individual traits and within-colony variation on task differentiation and collective behavior in a desert social spider (2014) (63)
- The combined behavioural tendencies of predator and prey mediate the outcome of their interaction (2013) (61)
- Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider (2011) (57)
- Predator and prey activity levels jointly influence the outcome of long-term foraging bouts. (2013) (55)
- Assessing the Effects of Rearing Environment, Natural Selection, and Developmental Stage on the Emergence of a Behavioral Syndrome (2013) (53)
- Persistent social interactions beget more pronounced personalities in a desert-dwelling social spider (2014) (53)
- Individual- and condition-dependent effects on habitat choice and choosiness (2011) (50)
- The ecological consequences of temperament in spiders (2012) (50)
- Within-group behavioral variation promotes biased task performance and the emergence of a defensive caste in a social spider (2010) (49)
- A real-time eco-evolutionary dead-end strategy is mediated by the traits of lineage progenitors and interactions with colony invaders. (2013) (48)
- Male mating preference is associated with risk of pre-copulatory cannibalism in a socially polymorphic spider (2009) (47)
- Personality and morphology shape task participation, collective foraging and escape behaviour in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola (2015) (47)
- Behavioural traits of colony founders affect the life history of their colonies. (2012) (44)
- Integrating animal personality into insect population and community ecology. (2015) (43)
- Species-specific influence of group composition on collective behaviors in ants (2014) (43)
- Iterative Evolution of Increased Behavioral Variation Characterizes the Transition to Sociality in Spiders and Proves Advantageous (2012) (41)
- Individual differences in boldness influence patterns of social interactions and the transmission of cuticular bacteria among group-mates (2016) (40)
- Sexual cannibalism is associated with female behavioural type, hunger state and increased hatching success (2012) (40)
- Differences in environmental enrichment generate contrasting behavioural syndromes in a basal spider lineage (2014) (39)
- RETRACTED: Individual differences in personality and behavioural plasticity facilitate division of labour in social spider colonies (2014) (39)
- Behavioral repeatability of flour beetles before and after metamorphosis and throughout aging (2016) (39)
- Social tipping points in animal societies (2018) (37)
- Survival of the weakest: increased frond mechanical strength in a wave‐swept kelp inhibits self‐pruning and increases whole‐plant mortality (2013) (36)
- Amazonian social spiders share similar within-colony behavioural variation and behavioural syndromes (2011) (35)
- Individual and Group Performance Suffers from Social Niche Disruption (2016) (33)
- Behavioural trait variants in a habitat-forming species dictate the nature of its interactions with and among heterospecifics (2012) (33)
- The legacy effects of keystone individuals on collective behaviour scale to how long they remain within a group (2015) (32)
- Non‐Conceptive Sexual Behavior in Spiders: A Form of Play Associated with Body Condition, Personality Type, and Male Intrasexual Selection (2012) (32)
- Context-dependent running speed in funnel-web spiders from divergent populations (2010) (32)
- Animal personality in a foundation species drives community divergence and collapse in the wild. (2015) (30)
- Collective personalities: present knowledge and new frontiers (2019) (30)
- Reproductive consequences of male body mass and aggressiveness depend on females’ behavioral types (2011) (30)
- Genetic Changes to a Transcriptional Silencer Element Confers Phenotypic Diversity within and between Drosophila Species (2015) (30)
- Exploring How a Shift in the Physical Environment Shapes Individual and Group Behavior across Two Social Contexts (2014) (29)
- Differential selection on sprint speed and ad libitum feeding behaviour in active vs. sit-and-wait foraging spiders (2010) (28)
- Call-to-Action: A Global Consortium for Tropical Cyclone Ecology. (2019) (27)
- Prolonged food restriction decreases body condition and reduces repeatability in personality traits in web-building spiders (2016) (27)
- Colony personality composition alters colony-level plasticity and magnitude of defensive behaviour in a social spider (2016) (26)
- The adaptive value of gluttony: predators mediate the life history trade‐offs of satiation threshold (2010) (25)
- Similar patterns of frequency‐dependent selection on animal personalities emerge in three species of social spiders (2015) (25)
- Participation in cooperative prey capture and the benefits gained from it are associated with individual personality (2016) (24)
- Foliar bacteria and soil fertility mediate seedling performance: a new and cryptic dimension of niche differentiation. (2016) (24)
- Reproductive success in a socially polymorphic spider: social individuals experience depressed reproductive success in isolation (2010) (24)
- The Achilles' heel hypothesis: misinformed keystone individuals impair collective learning and reduce group success (2016) (23)
- Intraspecific variation in collective behaviors drives interspecific contests in acorn ants (2016) (22)
- Warring arthropod societies: Social spider colonies can delay annihilation by predatory ants via reduced apparency and increased group size (2015) (22)
- Selection for Collective Aggressiveness Favors Social Susceptibility in Social Spiders (2018) (21)
- rate in orb-weaving spiders of genus Larinioides (2014) (21)
- Social interactions shape individual and collective personality in social spiders (2018) (20)
- Habitat structure helps guide the emergence of colony-level personality in social spiders (2014) (20)
- Boldness is influenced by sublethal interactions with predators and is associated with successful harem infiltration in Madagascar hissing cockroaches (2014) (20)
- The Effect of Keystone Individuals on Collective Outcomes Can Be Mediated through Interactions or Behavioral Persistence (2016) (20)
- Systematics of the Madagascar Anelosimus spiders: remarkable local richness and endemism, and dual colonization from the Americas (2015) (19)
- Personality composition alters the transmission of cuticular bacteria in social groups (2016) (19)
- The effect of reproductive status and situation on locomotor performance and anti‐predator strategies in a funnel‐web spider (2010) (19)
- Insights from the study of complex systems for the ecology and evolution of animal populations (2019) (18)
- The contribution of shelter from rain to the success of pit-building predators in urban habitats (2018) (18)
- Social tipping points in animal societies in response to heat stress (2018) (18)
- WASPnest: a worldwide assessment of social Polistine nesting behavior. (2018) (17)
- Behavioral Hypervolumes of Predator Groups and Predator-Predator Interactions Shape Prey Survival Rates and Selection on Prey Behavior (2017) (17)
- Social spiders: mildly successful social animals with much untapped research potential (2017) (17)
- Signaler and receiver boldness influence response to alarm calls in eastern chipmunks (2018) (17)
- Increased bacterial load can reduce or negate the effects of keystone individuals on group collective behaviour (2016) (17)
- Individual differences in predators but not producers mediate the magnitude of a trophic cascade (2015) (17)
- Replacing bold individuals has a smaller impact on group performance than replacing shy individuals (2017) (17)
- Intense group selection selects for ideal group compositions, but selection within groups maintains them (2017) (16)
- Thermal effects on survival and reproductive performance vary according to personality type (2016) (16)
- Consistent differences in foraging behavior in 2 sympatric harvester ant species may facilitate coexistence (2017) (16)
- Colony personality and plant health in the Azteca‐Cecropia mutualism (2018) (15)
- The primary case is not enough: Variation among individuals, groups and social networks modify bacterial transmission dynamics (2018) (15)
- The complex effect of illumination, temperature, and thermal acclimation on habitat choice and foraging behavior of a pit-building wormlion (2017) (15)
- Imperfect transparency and camouflage in glass frogs (2020) (14)
- Cross-fostering by foreign conspecific queens and slave-making workers influences individual- and colony-level personality (2015) (14)
- The multidimensional behavioural hypervolumes of two interacting species predict their space use and survival (2017) (14)
- Cuticular bacteria appear detrimental to social spiders in mixed but not monoculture exposure (2016) (14)
- Behavioural hypervolumes of spider communities predict community performance and disbandment (2016) (14)
- Exposure to predators reduces collective foraging aggressiveness and eliminates its relationship with colony personality composition (2017) (14)
- Habitat complexity dampens selection on prey activity level (2018) (13)
- Comparative Genomics Identifies Putative Signatures of Sociality in Spiders (2019) (13)
- Group dynamics and relocation decisions of a trap-building predator are differentially affected by biotic and abiotic factors (2017) (12)
- Intraindividual Behavioral Variability Predicts Foraging Outcome in a Beach-dwelling Jumping Spider (2017) (12)
- Habitat preference of wormlions and their behavioural repeatability under illumination/shade conditions (2016) (11)
- Expression of Concern: Spider aggressiveness determines the bidirectional consequences of host–inquiline interactions (2020) (11)
- The Indirect Impact of Long-Term Overbrowsing on Insects in the Allegheny National Forest Region of Pennsylvania (2015) (11)
- Debates: The Aggressive Spillover Hypothesis: Existing Ailments and Putative Remedies (2013) (11)
- Nonconceptive sexual experience diminishes individuals’ latency to mate and increases maternal investment (2011) (11)
- Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males (2014) (10)
- Opposite responses to selection and where to find them (2019) (10)
- Habitat structure changes the relationships between predator behavior, prey behavior, and prey survival rates (2019) (10)
- Queen personality type predicts nest-guarding behaviour, colony size and the subsequent collective aggressiveness of the colony (2017) (10)
- Population differences in aggression are shaped by tropical cyclone-induced selection (2019) (9)
- Putative microbial defenses in a social spider: immune variation and antibacterial properties of colony silk (2015) (9)
- Mating alters the link between movement activity and pattern in the red flour beetle (2017) (9)
- Are personalities genetically determined? Inferences from subsocial spiders (2019) (9)
- Testing the Effects of Biogenic Amines and Alternative Topical Solvent Types on the Behavioral Repertoire of Two Web‐Building Spiders (2015) (9)
- Smaller and bolder prey snails have higher survival in staged encounters with the sea star Pisaster giganteus (2017) (9)
- Transgressive aggression in Sceloporus hybrids confers fitness through advantages in male agonistic encounters. (2010) (8)
- Polistes metricus queens exhibit personality variation and behavioral syndromes (2017) (8)
- Adult presence augments juvenile collective foraging in social spiders (2015) (8)
- Collective behavior and colony persistence of social spiders depends on their physical environment (2018) (8)
- Foraging benefits and limited niche overlap promote a mixed species association between two solitary species of spider. (2009) (7)
- Collective aggressiveness of an ecosystem engineer is associated with coral recovery (2018) (7)
- Resting networks and personality predict attack speed in social spiders (2019) (6)
- Potential feedback between coral presence and farmerfish collective behavior promotes coral recovery (2018) (6)
- Pruitt & Goodnight reply (2015) (6)
- Experimental evidence of frequency-dependent selection on group behaviour (2019) (6)
- Social context, but not individual personality, alters immigrant viability in a spider with mixed social structure (2016) (5)
- Behaviour, morphology and microhabitat use: what drives individual niche variation? (2019) (5)
- Spatial proximity and prey vibratory cues influence collective hunting in social spiders. (2019) (5)
- Personality variation in two predator species does not impact prey species survival or plant damage in staged mesocosms (2018) (5)
- Retracted: Female-Biased Sex Ratios Increase Colony Survival and Reproductive Output in the Spider Anelosimus studiosus (2018) (5)
- Are personality researchers painting the roses red? Maybe: a comment on Beekman and Jordan (2017) (5)
- Personality and behavioral syndromes in insects and spiders (2018) (5)
- Animal Personality: Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution (2014) (4)
- Colony size and initial conditions combine to shape colony reunification dynamics (2020) (4)
- Exposure to cuticular bacteria can alter host behavior in a funnel-weaving spider (2018) (4)
- Habitat disturbance alters color contrast and the detectability of cryptic and aposematic frogs (2021) (4)
- Collective aggressiveness limits colony persistence in high‐ but not low‐elevation sites at Amazonian social spiders (2019) (4)
- Sources of intraspecific variation in the collective tempo and synchrony of ant societies. (2019) (3)
- Individuality in seaweeds and why we need to care (2019) (3)
- Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance (2020) (3)
- Submersion tolerance in a lakeshore population of Pardosa lapidicina (Araneae: Lycosidae) (2014) (3)
- Social spider webs harbour largely consistent bacterial communities across broad spatial scales (2019) (3)
- Evidence for contrasting size-frequency distributions of workers patrolling vegetation vs. the ground in the polymorphic African ant Anoplolepis custodiens (2018) (2)
- Spiders, microbes and sex: Bacterial exposure on copulatory organs alters mating behaviour in funnel‐web spiders (2019) (2)
- Collective aggressiveness limits colony persistence in high but not low elevation sites in Amazonian social spiders (2019) (2)
- Avian ASMR and mammalian misophonia: a comment on Harding et al (2019) (2)
- Retraction: Persistent social interactions beget more pronounced personalities in a desert-dwelling social spider (2020) (2)
- Predictors of colony extinction vary by habitat type in social spiders (2019) (2)
- Repeatability of between-group differences in collective foraging is shaped by group composition in social spiders (2019) (1)
- Correction to ‘Personality composition is more important than group size in determining collective foraging behaviour in the wild’ (2020) (1)
- Individual variation in queen morphology and behavior predicts colony performance in the wild (2019) (1)
- Predator-induced selection on urchin activity level depends on urchin body size (2019) (1)
- Supplementary material from "Social spider webs harbour largely consistent bacterial communities across broad spatial scales" (2019) (1)
- Population differences in aggression are shaped by cyclone-induced selection (2019) (1)
- Retraction: Evidence of social niche construction: persistent and repeated social interactions generate stronger personalities in a social spider (2020) (1)
- Social tipping points in animal societies in response to heat stress (2018) (1)
- Egg discrimination is mediated by individual differences in queen olfactory responsiveness and boldness (2019) (1)
- Retraction (2020) (1)
- Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance (2019) (1)
- Use of locomotor performance capacities reflects the risk level associated with specific cue types in two cursorial spider species (2014) (1)
- Physical and social cues shape nest-site preference and prey capture behavior in social spiders. (2020) (1)
- Spider Behaviour: Flexibility and Versatility. Edited by Marie Elisabeth Herberstein. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $120.00 (hardcover); $55.00 (paper). xii + 391 p. + 12 pl.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-521-76529-9 (hc); 978-0-521-74927-5 (pb). 2011. (2012) (1)
- RETRACTED ARTICLE: Prolonged food restriction decreases body condition and reduces repeatability in personality traits in web-building spiders (2016) (1)
- Foundress Number, But Not Queen Size or Boldness, Predicts Colony Life-History in Wild Paper Wasps (2019) (1)
- Corrigendum to: “Predator and prey activity levels jointly influence the outcome of long-term foraging bouts” (2013) 24:1205–1210, doi:10.1093/beheco/art052 (2020) (1)
- Retraction notice to “Linking levels of personality: personalities of the ‘average’ and ‘most extreme’ group members predict colony-level personality” [Animal Behaviour 86 (2013) 391–399] (2020) (1)
- Reviewers in 2016 (2016) (1)
- Episodic correlations in behavioural lateralization differ between a poison frog and its mimic (2021) (1)
- Personality variation in two predator species does not impact prey species survival or plant damage in staged mesocosms (2018) (0)
- Collective personalities: present knowledge and new frontiers (2019) (0)
- Retraction Note: Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions (2023) (0)
- Correction to ‘Behavioural hypervolumes of spider communities predict community performance and disbandment’ (2021) (0)
- S OCIAL T IPPING P OINTS IN A NIMAL S OCIETIES (2019) (0)
- Cross-fostering by foreign conspecific queens and slave-making workers influences individual- and colony-level personality (2014) (0)
- Exposure to predators reduces collective foraging aggressiveness and eliminates its relationship with colony personality composition (2017) (0)
- Individual differences in predators but not producers mediate the magnitude of a trophic cascade (2015) (0)
- Species-specific influence of group composition on collective behaviors in ants (2014) (0)
- Retraction: The Achilles’ heel hypothesis: misinformed keystone individuals impair collective learning and reduce group success (2020) (0)
- Intraindividual Behavioral Variability Predicts Foraging Outcome in a Beach-dwelling Jumping Spider (2017) (0)
- Exposure to cuticular bacteria can alter host behavior in a funnel-weaving spider (2017) (0)
- Multilevel selection in groups of groups (2019) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Social interactions shape individual and collective personality in social spiders" (2018) (0)
- Dispersal behaviour as the outcome and trigger of multilevel selection in a social spider (2019) (0)
- Noise resistant synchronization and collective rhythm switching in a model of animal group locomotion (2022) (0)
- Habitat structure helps guide the emergence of colony-level personality in social spiders (2014) (0)
- Division of labor increases with colony size, regardless of group composition, in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola (2019) (0)
- The evolutionary ecology of faking sick (2020) (0)
- The complex effect of illumination, temperature, and thermal acclimation on habitat choice and foraging behavior of a pit-building wormlion (2017) (0)
- Sociality in the Spider Anelosimus studiosus: Behavioral Correlates and Adaptive Consequences (2010) (0)
- In the spider nursery: indifference, cooperation or antagonism? (2017) (0)
- Correction (2021) (0)
- Anelosimus torfi Agnarsson, Jencik, Veve, Hanitriniaina, Agostini, Goh, Pruitt & Kuntner, 2015, sp. n. (2015) (0)
- Assessing the repeatability, robustness to disturbance, and parent–offspring colony resemblance of collective behavior (2019) (0)
- Exploring the effects of individual traits and within-colony variation on task differentiation and collective behavior in a desert social spider (2014) (0)
- Evidence for contrasting size-frequency distributions of workers patrolling vegetation vs. the ground in the polymorphic African ant Anoplolepis custodiens (2018) (0)
- Experimental evidence of frequency-dependent selection on group behaviour (2019) (0)
- Retraction notice to “Individual differences in personality and behavioural plasticity facilitate division of labour in social spider colonies” [Animal Behaviour 97 (2014) 177–183] (2020) (0)
- Retraction: Behaviour, morphology and microhabitat use: what drives individual niche variation? (2020) (0)
- Habitat structure changes the relationships between predator behavior, prey behavior, and prey survival rates (2019) (0)
- Better safe than sorry: spider societies mitigate risk by prioritizing caution (2019) (0)
- Behavioral repeatability of flour beetles before and after metamorphosis and throughout aging (2016) (0)
- Collective behaviour is not robust to disturbance, yet parent and offspring colonies resemble each other in social spiders (2019) (0)
- Orb-weaving spiders show a correlated syndrome of morphology and web structure in the wild (2019) (0)
- Boldness is influenced by sublethal interactions with predators and is associated with successful harem infiltration in Madagascar hissing cockroaches (2013) (0)
- Correction to ‘The legacy effects of keystone individuals on collective behaviour scale to how long they remain in a group’ (2020) (0)
- Retraction Note to: Prolonged food restriction decreases body condition and reduces repeatability in personality traits in web-building spiders (2021) (0)
- Retraction Note to: Individual- and condition-dependent effects on habitat choice and choosiness (2021) (0)
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