Crop & Pasture Science - 63 (6), 2012

Contents:
    

The future of grain legumes in cropping systems

Thomas R. Sinclair and Vincent Vadez


Genomic analysis of carbon isotope discrimination, photosynthesis rate, stomatal conductance, and grain yield in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under water-stressed conditions

Shahram Mohammady, Roghayeh Aminian, Sadolla Hoshmand and Mahmood Khodombashi


Dual-purpose use of winter wheat in western China: cutting time and nitrogen application effects on phenology, forage production, and grain yield

L. H. Tian, L. W. Bell, Y. Y. Shen and J. P. M. Whish


Soil clay content, rainfall, and toposequence positions determining spatial variation in field water availability as estimated by a water balance model for rainfed lowland rice

T. Inthavong, M. Tsubo and S. Fukai


Molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci for adult-plant resistance to powdery mildew in Italian wheat cultivar Libellula

M. A. Asad, B. Bai, C. X. Lan, J. Yan, X. C. Xia, Y. Zhang and Z. H. He


Phenotyping of traits imparting drought tolerance in lentil

J. Kumar, P. S. Basu, E. Srivastava, S. K. Chaturvedi, N. Nadarajan and S. Kumar


The extent and cost of mallee–crop competition in unharvested carbon sequestration and harvested mallee biomass agroforestry systems

R. A. Sudmeyer, T. Daniels, H. Jones and D. Huxtable


Comparative studies on reproductive structures in four amphicarpic tropical Phaseoleae legumes

P. Saravana Kumar, R. J. Lawn and L. M. Bielig


Preliminary assessment of bladder clover (Trifolium spumosum L.) as an annual legume for ley farming systems in southern Australia

Angelo Loi, Brad J. Nutt, John G. Howieson, Ron. J. Yates and Hayley C. Norman

 
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Crop & Pasture Science - 63 (3), 2012

Contents:

   
Foreword to 'CCRSPI Conference Synthesis Papers'

Michael Robinson


Introduction to 'CCRSPI Conference Synthesis Papers'

Craig Burns


Livestock production in a changing climate: adaptation and mitigation research in Australia

Beverley Henry, Ed Charmley, Richard Eckard, John B. Gaughan and Roger Hegarty


Climate change through the farming systems lens: challenges and opportunities for farming in Australia

Peter Hayman, Lauren Rickards, Richard Eckard and Deirdre Lemerle


Australia's landscapes in a changing climate—caution, hope, inspiration, and transformation

Jason Alexandra


Synthesis paper on socioeconomic factors relating to agriculture and community development

Margaret Alston


Transformational adaptation: agriculture and climate change

L. Rickards and S. M. Howden


Plant adaptation to climate change—opportunities and priorities in breeding

Scott C. Chapman, Sukumar Chakraborty, M. Fernanda Dreccer and S. Mark Howden


Soils and climate change: potential impacts on carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions, and future research for Australian agriculture

J. A. Baldock, I. Wheeler, N. McKenzie and A. McBrateny


Greenhouse gas accounting for inventory, emissions trading and life cycle assessment in the land-based sector: a review

Annette Cowie, Richard Eckard and Sandra Eady


Epilogue – Future challenges for the national climate change research strategy

Richard Eckard, Alison Kelly and Snow Barlow


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Behavioral Ecology and Socjobiology - 66 (6), 2012

Contents:


Female philopatry and its social benefits among Bornean orangutans

Maria A. van Noordwijk, Natasha Arora, Erik P. Willems, Lynda P. Dunkel and Rahmalia N. Amda, et al.

 
Leading from the front? Social networks in navigating groups

Nikolai W. F. Bode, Daniel W. Franks and A. Jamie Wood


Cooperative web sharing against predators promotes group living in spider mites

Shuichi Yano


Adoption and cuckoldry lead to alloparental care in the tessellated darter (Etheostoma olmstedi), a non-group-living species with no evidence of nest site limitation

Kelly A. Stiver, Stephen H. Wolff and Suzanne H. Alonzo

 
Behavioral responses of territorial red squirrels to natural and experimental variation in population density

Ben Dantzer, Stan Boutin, Murray M. Humphries and Andrew G. McAdam

  
Vortex formation and foraging in polyphenic spadefoot toad tadpoles

Sepideh Bazazi, Karin S. Pfennig, Nils Olav Handegard and Iain D. Couzin

  
Do female zebrafish withhold reproductive resources for future mating opportunities?

Joseph B. T. Vaughan and Michael D. F. Thom

   
Racial mixing in South African honeybees: the effects of genotype mixing on reproductive traits of workers

Madeleine Beekman, Michael H. Allsopp, Michael J. Holmes, Julianne Lim and Lee-Ann Noach-Pienaar, et al.

   
"Cryptic" direct benefits of mate choice: choosy females experience reduced predation risk while in precopula

Rickey D. Cothran, Kristopher Chapman, Andy R. Stiff and Rick A. Relyea

   
Tracking migration routes and the annual cycle of a trans-Sahara songbird migrant

Heiko Schmaljohann, Martin Buchmann, James W. Fox and Franz Bairlein

  
Individual-level patterns of division of labor in honeybees highlight flexibility in colony-level developmental mechanisms

Brian R. Johnson and Elizabeth Frost

  
Look before you leap - individual variation in social vigilance shapes socio-spatial group properties in an agent-based model

Ellen Evers, Han de Vries, Berry M. Spruijt and Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

  
Evolution of self-organized division of labor in a response threshold model

Ana Duarte, Ido Pen, Laurent Keller and Franz J. Weissing

  
The anxious vole: the impact of group and gender on collective behavior under life-threat

David Eilam, Pazit Zadicario, Tom Genossar and Joel Mort

  
Giant pandas attend to androgen-related variation in male bleats

Benjamin D. Charlton, Ronald R. Swaisgood, Zhang Zhihe and Rebecca J. Snyder

  
Singing activity stimulates partner reproductive investment rather than increasing paternity success in zebra finches

Elisabeth Bolund, Holger Schielzeth and Wolfgang Forstmeier

  
A case for quantile regression in behavioral ecology: getting more out of flight initiation distance data

Simon Chamaillé-Jammes and Daniel T. Blumstein

  
Erratum to: How habitat affects the benefits of communication in collectively foraging honey bees

Matina C. Donaldson-Matasci and Anna Dornhaus

   

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