Aguilar-Argüello, S., Taylor, A. H., Nelson, X. J. 2020. 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
Bedoya, C. L., Brockerhoff, E. G., Hayes, M., Leskey, T. C., Morrisson, W. R., Rice, K., Nelson, X. J.2020. Brown marmorated stink bug overwintering aggregations are not regulated through vibrational signals during autumn dispersal. Royal Society Open Science. 7, 201371. doi:10.1098/rsos.201371
Aguilar-Argüello, S., Nelson, X. J. In Press. Jumping spiders: An exceptional group for comparative cognition studies. Learning & Behavior.
Nelson, X. J., Aguilar-Argüello, S., Jackson, R. R. 2020. Widespread army ant aversion among East African jumping spiders (Salticidae). Journal of Ethology, 38, 185-194. doi:10.1007/s10164-020-00639-1. Editor's choice 2020 award.
Aguilar-Argüello, S., Gerhard, D., Nelson, X. J. 2020. Distance assessment of detours by jumping spiders. Current Zoology 66,263-273. doi:10.1093/cz/zoz044
Bedoya, C. L., Hofstetter, R. W., Nelson, X. J., Hayes, M., Miller, D. R., Brockerhoff, E. G. 2020. Sound production in bark and ambrosia beetles. Bioacoustics. doi:10.1080/09524622.2019.1686424
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 Cognition21, 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
Nelson, X. J. 2017. Spiders that would be ants. Scientific American, special collector's edition, 26(2): 4-7.
Schwing, R., Nelson, X. J., Wein, A., Parsons, S. 2017. Positive emotional contagion in a New Zealand parrot. Current Biology 27: R199-R217. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.020
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.
Greer, A. L., Horton, T. W., Nelson, X. J. 2015. Simple ways to calculate stable isotope discrimination factors and convert between tissue types. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6: 1341–1348. doi:10.1080/03014223.2015.1070183
Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2011. Flexibility in the foraging strategies of spiders. In: Spider Behaviour: flexibility and versatility (Ed., M. E. Herberstein). Cambridge University Press. Pp. 31-56.
Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2011. Flexible use of anti-predator defences. In: Spider Behaviour: flexibility and versatility (Ed., M. E. Herberstein). Cambridge University Press. Pp. 99-126.