Alejandro Kacelnik

Research.com Recognitions

• 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
• 2003 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Best Publications

• Test of optimal sampling by foraging great tits

  John R. Krebs;Alejandro Kacelnik;Peter Taylor

  731
  Citations

• Honeybees maximize efficiency by not filling their crop

  Paul Schmid-Hempel;Alejandro Kacelnik;Alasdair I. Houston

  424
  Citations

• Central place foraging in starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). I: Patch residence time

  Alejandro Kacelnik

  405
  Citations

• INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF PREDATORS IN A PATCHY ENVIRONMENT

  Carlos Bernstein;Alejandro Kacelnik;John R. Krebs

  318
  Citations

• Recognition Errors and Probability of Parasitism Determine Whether Reed Warblers Should Accept or Reject Mimetic Cuckoo Eggs

  Nicholas Barry Davies;M. De L. Brooke;Alejandro Kacelnik

  314
  Citations

• INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF PREDATORS IN A PATCHY ENVIRONMENT. II. THE INFLUENCE OF TRAVEL COSTS AND STRUCTURE OF THE ENVIRONMENT

  Carlos Bernstein;Alejandro Kacelnik;John R. Krebs

  299
  Citations

• THE DAWN CHORUS IN THE GREAT TIT (PARUS-MAJOR) - PROXIMATE AND ULTIMATE CAUSES

  Alejandro Kacelnik;John R. Krebs

  206
  Citations

• Some effects of energy costs on foraging strategies

  Alejandro Kacelnik;Alasdair Iain Houston

  188
  Citations

• Starlings exploiting patches: the effect of recent experience on foraging decisions

  Innes C. Cuthill;Alejandro Kacelnik;John R. Krebs;Patsy Haccou

  176
  Citations

• Optimal foraging and territorial defence in the Great Tit ( Parus major )

  Alejandro Kacelnik;Alasdair I. Houston;John R. Krebs

  157
  Citations

• The foraging efficiency of great tits (Parus major L.) in relation to light intensity

  Alejandro Kacelnik

  150
  Citations

• To walk or to fly? How birds choose among foraging modes

  Luis M. Bautista;Joost M. Tinbergen;Alejandro Kacelnik

  142
  Citations

• A count-down mechanism for host search in the parasitoid Venturia canescens

  Gerard Driessen;Carlos Bernstein;Jacques J. M. Van Alphen;Alejandro Kacelnik

  136
  Citations

• OPTIMAL FORAGING AND BEYOND : HOW STARLINGS COPE WITH CHANGES IN FOOD AVAILABILITY

  Luis M. Bautista;Joost M. Tinbergen;Popko Wiersma;Alejandro Kacelnik

  133
  Citations

• Central place foraging in starlings. II. Food allocation to chicks

  Alejandro Kacelnik;Innes Cuthill

  116
  Citations

• Foraging Strategy, Worker Mortality, and the Growth of the Colony in Social Insects

  Alasdair Houston;Paul Schmid-Hempel;Alejandro Kacelnik

  115
  Citations

• Effects of the knowledge of partners on learning rates in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata

  Guy Beauchamp;Alejandro Kacelnik

  98
  Citations

• Psychological mechanisms and the Marginal Value Theorem: effect of variability in travel time on patch exploitation

  Alejandro Kacelnik;Ian A. Todd

  81
  Citations

• Central place foraging: a reappraisal of the ‘loading effect’

  Innes Cuthill;Alejandro Kacelnik

  75
  Citations

• Foraging in a changing environment: An experiment with starlings ("sturnus vulgaris").

  Alejandro Kacelnik;John R. Krebs;Bruno Ens

  74
  Citations

• The tale of the screaming hairy armadillo, the guinea pig and the marginal value theorem

  Marcelo H. Cassini;Alejandro Kacelnik;Enrique T. Segura

  72
  Citations

• Psychological mechanisms and the Marginal Value Theorem : dynamics of scalar memory for travel time

  Ian A. Todd;Alejandro Kacelnik

  62
  Citations

• Signalling via testosterone: Communicating health and vigour

  Alejandro Kacelnik;Sasha Norris

  7
  Citations