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2023 & In Press
  • Nelson XJ 2024. The Lives of Spiders. Princeton University Press. 288 pp. In Press.
  • Leggett M, Vink C, Nelson XJ 2024. Adaptation and survival of marine-associated spiders (Araneae). Annual Review of Entomology 69, In Press. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-062923-102457
  • Grabham AA, van der Linde K, Visser IN, Nelson XJ 2023. Initial insights into leopard seal moult in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. In Press.
  • McLean LRW, Horton TW, Robertson BC, Robertson F, Greer AL, Nelson XJ 2023. Reproductive roles as likely drivers of sexual dimorphism in New Zealand’s endangered mountain parrot, the kea. Ornithology. In Press. doi:10.1093/ornithology/ukad038
  • Nelson XJ 2023. A road map of jumping spider behavior. Journal of Arachnology 51, 139-154. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-22-011
  • Nelson XJ, Taylor AH, Cartmill EA, Lynn H, Robinson LM, Janik V, Allen C 2023. Joyful by nature: Approaches to investigate the evolution and function of joy in non-human animals. Biological Reviews 98, 1548-1563 doi:10.1111/brv.12965

2022
  • Bedoya, C. L., Nelson, X. J., Brockerhoff, E. G., Pawson, S., Hayes, M. 2022. Experimental characterization and automatic identification of stridulatory sounds inside wood. Royal Society Open Science 9, 220217. doi:10.1098/rsos.220217
  • Aguilar-Argüello, S., Taylor, A. H., Nelson, X. J.  2022. Jumping spiders do not seem fooled by texture gradient illusions. Behavioural Processes 196, 104603. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104603
  • Bastos, A. P. M., Nelson, X. J. Taylor, A. H. 2022. From the lab to the wild: How can captive studies aid the conservation of kea (Nestor notabilis)? Current Opinion in Behavioural Science 45, 101131. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101131
  • McLean, L. R. W., Nichols, M., Taylor, A. H., Nelson, X. J. 2022. Memory retention of a conditioned aversion in New Zealand’s alpine parrot, the kea (Nestor notabilis). Journal of Wildlife Management 86, 22221. doi:10.1002/jwmg.22221.

2021
  • Cerveira, A. M., Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2021. Spatial acuity-sensitivity trade-off in the principal eyes of a jumping spider - possible adaptations to a ‘blended’ lifestyle. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 207, 437-448. doi:10.1007/s00359-021-01486-2
  • Nelson, X. J., Pratt, A. J., Alouch, S. A., Jackson, R. R. 2021. Effects of phytochemicals on predatory decision-making in a spider. Animal Behaviour 177, 69-80. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.04.022
  • Aguilar-Argüello, S., Nelson, X. J. 2021. Jumping spiders: An exceptional group for comparative cognition studies. Learning & Behavior 49, 276-291. doi:10.3758/s13420-020-00445-2
  • Bedoya, C. L., Hofstetter, R. W., Nelson, X. J., Hayes, M., Miller, D. R., Brockerhoff, E. G. 2021. Sound production in bark and ambrosia beetles. Bioacoustics 30, 58-73. doi:10.1080/09524622.2019.1686424
  • Aguilar-Argüello, S., Taylor, A. H., Nelson, X. J. 2021. Jumping spiders attend to information from multiple modalities when preparing to jump. Animal Behaviour 171, 99-109.  doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.11.013

2020
2019
  • Humphrey, B., Helton, W. S., Nelson, X. J. 2019. Caffeine affects the vigilance decrement of Trite planiceps jumping spiders (Salticidae). Journal of Comparative Psychology 133, 551-557. doi:10.1037/com0000203​
  • Bedoya. C. L., Brockerhoff, E. G., Hayes, M., Pawson, S. M., Najar-Rodriguez, A., Nelson, X. J. 2019. Acoustic communication of the red-haired bark beetle (Hylurgus ligniperda). Physiological Entomology 44, 252-265. doi:10.1111/phen.12301
  • Aguilar-Argüello, S., Gerhard, D., Nelson, X.J. 2019. Risk assessment and the use of novel shortcuts in spatial detouring tasks in jumping spiders. Behavioral Ecology 30, 1488-1498. doi:10.1093/beheco/arz105
  • Cerveira, A. M., Jackson, R. R., Nelson, X. J. 2019. Dim-light vision in jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae): identification of prey and rivals. Journal of Experimental Biology 222, jeb198069. doi:10.1242/jeb.198069
  • Bedoya, C. L., Nelson, X. J., Hayes, M., Hofstetter, R., Atkinson, T., Brockerhoff, E. G. 2019. First report of luminous stimuli eliciting sound production in weevils. ​The Science ​of Nature 106, 17.  doi:10.1007/s00114-019-1619-8
  • Melrose, A., Nelson, X. J., Dolev, Y., Helton, W. S. 2019. Vigilance all the way down: Vigilance decrement in jumping spiders resembles that of humans. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72, 1530-1538.  doi:10.1177/1747021818798743. 
  • Nelson, X. J., Helton, W. S.,  Melrose, A. 2019. The effect of stimulus encounter rate on response decrement in jumping spiders. Behavioural Processes 159, 57-59. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2018.12.020

​2018
  • Humphrey, B., Helton, W. S., Bedoya, C., Dolev, Y., Nelson, X. J. 2018. Psychophysical investigation of vigilance decrement in jumping spiders: Overstimulation or understimulation? Animal Cognition 21, 787-794. doi:org/10.1007/s10071-018-1210-2
  • Kross, S. M., Tait, A., Raubenheimer, D., Nelson, X. J. 2018. New Zealand falcon prey selection may not be driven by preference based on prey nutritional content. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 42: 58-64. doi:10.20417/nzjecol.42.10
2017 2016
  • Nelson, X. J., Card, A. 2016. Locomotory mimicry in ant-like spiders. Behavioral Ecology 27: 700-707.  doi:10.1093/beheco/arv218. Featured in the Journal of Experimental Biology (Outside JEB).
  • Schwing, R., Nelson, X. J., Parsons, S. 2016. Audiogram of the kea parrot, Nestor notabilis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140: 3739–3744. doi:org/10.1121/1.4967757.
  • Dolev, Y., Nelson, X. J. 2016. Biological relevance affects object recognition in jumping spiders. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 43: 42-53.  doi:10.1080/03014223.2015.1070183
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