XIMENA NELSON
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2022 & In Press
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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​

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
  • 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.
  • 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
2015
  • 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
  • Greer, A. L., Gajdon, G. Y., Nelson, X. J. 2015. Intraspecific variation in the foraging ecology of kea, the world’s only mountain and rainforest-dwelling parrot. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 39: 254-261.
2014
  • Nelson, X. J. 2014. The spider's charade. Scientific American 311: 86-89.
  • Nelson, X. J. 2014. Animal behavior can inform conservation policy, we just need to get on with the job – or can it? Current Zoology 60: 479-485. 
  • Dolev, Y., Nelson, X. J. 2014. Innate pattern recognition and categorization in a jumping spider. PLoS ONE 9:e97819. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097819.    
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2014. Timid spider uses odor and visual cues to actively select protected nesting sites near ants. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 68: 773-780. doi:10.1007/s00265-014-1690-2
  • Nelson, X. J. 2014. Evolutionary implications of deception in mimicry and masquerade. Current Zoology 60: 6-15. 
2013   
  • Nelson, X. J., Fijn, N. 2013. The use of visual media as a tool for investigating animal behaviour. Animal Behaviour 85: 525–536. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.009 
  • Kross, S. M., Nelson, X. J. 2013. Factors influencing the behavioural development of juvenile New Zealand falcons (Falco novaeseelandiae). Emu 113: 84-87. Supplementary material. doi:10.1071/MU12020
  • Kross, S. M., McDonald, P. M., Nelson, X. J. 2013. New Zealand falcon nests suffer lower predation in agricultural habitat than in natural habitat. Bird Conservation International 23: 512-519. doi:10.1017/S0959270913000130
  • Kross, S. M., Tylianakis, J. M., Nelson, X. J. 2013. Diet Composition and prey choice of New Zealand falcons nesting in anthropogenic and natural habitats. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 37: 51-59.
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2013. Hunger-driven response by a nectar-eating jumping spider to specific phytochemicals. Chemoecology 23: 149-153. doi:10.1007/s00049-013-0130-5
2012
  • Nelson, X. J., Pratt, A. J., Cheseto, X., Torto, B., Jackson, R. R. 2012. Mediation of a plant-spider association by specific volatile compounds. Journal of Chemical Ecology 38: 1081-1092. doi:10.1007/s10886-012-0175-x
  • Schwing, R., Parsons, S., Nelson, X. J. 2012. Vocal repertoire of the New Zealand kea parrot (Nestor notabilis). Current Zoology 58: 727-740. 
  • Nelson, X. J., Warui, C. M., Jackson, R. R. 2012. Widespread reliance on olfactory sex and species identification by Lyssomanine and Spartaeine jumping spiders. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107: 664-677.  doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01965.x
  • Zurek, D. B., Nelson, X. J. 2012. Hyperacute motion detection by the lateral eyes of jumping spider. Vision Research 66: 26-30. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2012.06.011    
  • Kross, S. M., Tylianakis, J. M., Nelson, X. J. 2012. Translocation of threatened New Zealand falcons to vineyards increases nest attendance, brooding and feeding rates. PLoS ONE 7, e386979. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038679.   
  • Zurek, D. B., Nelson, X. J. 2012. Saccadic tracking of targets mediated by the anterior-lateral eyes of jumping spiders. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 198: 411-417. doi:10.1007/s00359-012-0719-0
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2012. The role of numerical competence in a specialized predatory strategy of an araneophagic spider. Animal Cognition 15: 699-710. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0498-6
  • Jackson, R. R., Nelson, X. J. 2012. Attending to detail by communal spider-eating spiders. Animal Cognition 15: 461-471. doi:10.1007/s10071-012-0469-y 
  • Young, L. M., Kelly, D., Nelson, X. J. 2012. Alpine flora may depend on declining frugivorous parrot for seed dispersal. Biological Conservation 147: 133-142. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.023
  • Jackson, R. R., Nelson, X. J. 2012. Evarcha culicivora chooses blood-fed Anopheles mosquitoes but other East African jumping spiders do not. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 26: 233-235. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2915.2011.00986.x
  • Jackson, R. R., Nelson, X. J.  2012. Specialized predation of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by spiders (Araneae). Myrmecological News 17: 33-49.
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2012. How spiders practice aggressive and Batesian mimicry. Current Zoology 58: 619-628.
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2012. The discerning predator: decision rules underlying prey classification by a mosquito-eating jumping spider. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 2255-2261. doi: 10.1242/jeb.069609
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2012. Fine tuning of vision-based prey-choice decisions by a predator that targets malaria vectors. Journal of Arachnology 40: 23-33. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/Hill-61
  • Nelson, X. J.  2012. A predator’s perspective of the accuracy of ant mimicry in spiders. Psyche article ID 168549. doi:10.1155/2012/168549
  • Kross, S. M., Tylianakis, J. M., Nelson, X. J. 2012. Effects of introducing threatened falcons into vineyards on abundance of Passeriformes and grape yield. Conservation Biology 26: 142-149. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01756.x
2011
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2011. Evidence that olfaction-based affinity for particular plant species is a special characteristic of Evarcha culicivora, a mosquito-specialist jumping spider. Journal of Arachnology 39: 378-383. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000132
  • Jackson, R. R, Nelson, X. J. 2011. Reliance on trial and error signal derivation by Portia africana, an. araneophagic jumping spider. Journal of Ethology 29: 301-307. doi:10.1007/s10164-010-0258-5
  • Kross, S. M., Nelson, X. J. 2011. A portable low-cost remote videography system for monitoring wildlife. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2: 191-196. doi:10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00064.x Featured podcast on MEE homepage. Supplementary material.
  • 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. 
2010
  • Zurek, D. B., Taylor, A. J., Evans, C. S., Nelson, X. J. 2010. The role of the anterior lateral eyes in the vision-based behaviour of jumping spiders. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 2372-2378. doi:10.1242/jeb.042382 'Inside JEB' feature in Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Nelson, X. J., Garnett, D. T., Evans, C. S. 2010. Receiver psychology and the design of the deceptive caudal luring signal of the death adder. Animal Behaviour 79: 555-561. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.20 09.12.011  'In focus' summary of article in Animal Behaviour
  • Nelson, X. J. 2010. Polymorphism in an ant mimicking jumping spider. Journal of Arachnology 38: 139-141. doi:10.1636/Hi09-36.1
  • Nelson, X. J. 2010. Visual cues used by ant-like jumping spiders to distinguish conspecifics from their models. Journal of Arachnology 38: 27-34. doi:10.1636/Hi09-35.1
  • Jackson, R. R., Salm, K., Nelson, X. J. 2010. Specialized predatory behaviour of two East African assassin bugs, Scipinnia repax and Nagusta sp. that prey on social jumping spiders. Journal of Insect Science 10: 82.
2009
  • Wilson, D. R., Nelson, X. J., Evans, C. S. 2009. Seizing the opportunity: subordinate male fowl respond rapidly to variation in social context. Ethology 115: 996-1004. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01688.x
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2009. Aggressive use of Batesian mimicry by an ant-like jumping spider. Biology Letters 5: 755-757.  doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0355                           
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2009. Prey classification by an araneophagic ant-like jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Zoology 279: 173-179. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00602.x
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2009. Collective Batesian mimicry of ant groups by aggregating spiders. Animal Behaviour 78: 123-129.  doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.005 
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2009. The influence of ants on the mating strategy of a myrmecophilic jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 43: 713-735. doi:10.1080/00222930802610469
2008
  • Nelson, X. J., Wilson, D. R., Evans, C.S. 2008. Behavioral syndromes in stable social groups: an artifact of external constraints? Ethology 114: 1154-1165. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01568.x
  • Wilson, D. R., Bayly, K., Nelson, X. J., Gillings, M., Evans, C. S. 2008. Alarm calling best predicts mating and reproductive success in ornamented male fowl, Gallus gallus. Animal Behaviour 76: 543-554.  doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.03.026   'In focus' summary of article in Animal Behaviour
  • Jackson, R. R., Nelson, X. J., Salm, K. 2008. The natural history of Myrmarachne melanotarsa, a social ant-mimicking jumping spider. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 35: 225-235.  doi:0301-4223/08/3503-0225
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2008. Anti-predator crèches and aggregations of ant-mimicking jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94: 475-481.  doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01006.x
2007
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2007. Complex display behaviour during the intraspecific interactions of myrmecomorphic jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 41: 1659-1678. doi:10.1080/00222930701450504
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2007. Vision-based ability of an ant-mimicking jumping spider to discriminate between models, conspecific individuals and prey. Insectes Sociaux 54: 1-4. doi:10.1007/s00040-006-0901-x
2006
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2006. A predator from East Africa that chooses malaria vectors as preferred prey. PLoS ONE 1(1): e132. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000132.
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R., Li, D. 2006. Conditional use of honest signaling by a Batesian mimic. Behavioral Ecology 17: 575-580.  doi:10.1093/beheco/arj068
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2006. Vision-based innate aversion to ants and ant mimics. Behavioral Ecology 17: 676-681. doi:10.1093/beheco/ark017
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R., Li, D., Barrion, A. T., Edwards, G. B. 2006. Innate aversion to ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and ant mimics: experimental findings from mantises. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88: 23-32. doi:1095-8312.2006.00598.x
  • Nelson, X. J., Li, D., Jackson, R. R. 2006. Out of the frying pan and into the fire: a novel trade-off for Batesian mimics. Ethology 112: 270-277.  doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01155.x
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2006. Compound mimicry and trading predators by the males of sexually dimorphic Batesian mimics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 273: 367-372.  doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3340 
2005
  • Jackson, R. R., Nelson, X. J., Sune, G. O. 2005. A spider that feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood by choosing female mosquitoes as prey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 102: 15155–15160.  doi:10.1073/pnas.0507398102
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R., Sune, G. O. 2005. Use of Anopheles-specific prey-capture behavior by the small juveniles of Evarcha culicivora, a mosquito-eating jumping spider. Journal of Arachnology 33: 541-548.  doi:10.1636/05-3.1
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R., Edwards, G. B., Barrion, A. T. 2005. Living with the enemy: jumping spiders that mimic weaver ants. Journal of Arachnology 33: 813-819. doi:10.1636/S04-12.1
2004
  • Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R., Pollard, S. D., Edwards, G. B., Barrion, A. T. 2004. Predation by ants on jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Philippines. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 31: 45-56.  doi:0301-4223/04/3101-0045
2001
  • Jackson, R. R., Pollard, S. D., Nelson, X. J., Edwards, G. B., Barrion, A. T. 2001. Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) that feed on nectar.  Journal of Zoology 255: 25-29. doi:10.1017/S095283690100108X

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