| Niche conservatism and the potential for the crayfish Procambarus clarkii to invade South America AV Palaoro, MM Dalosto, GC Costa, S Santos Freshwater Biology 58 (7), 1379-1391, 2013 | 64 | 2013 |
| Weaponry and defenses in fighting animals: how allometry can alter predictions from contest theory AV Palaoro, M Briffa Behavioral Ecology 28 (1), 328-336, 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
| The longer the better: evidence that narwhal tusks are sexually selected ZA Graham, E Garde, MP Heide-Jørgensen, AV Palaoro Biology letters 16 (3), 20190950, 2020 | 41 | 2020 |
| All by myself? Meta‐analysis of animal contests shows stronger support for self than for mutual assessment models NS Pinto, AV Palaoro, PEC Peixoto Biological Reviews 94 (4), 1430-1442, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
| Freshwater decapod (Aegla longirostri) uses a mixed assessment strategy to resolve contests AV Palaoro, MM Dalosto, JR Costa, S Santos Animal Behaviour 95, 71-79, 2014 | 38 | 2014 |
| Modulation of male aggressiveness through different communication pathways AV Palaoro, L Ayres-Peres, S Santos Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1-10, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| How to deal with a bad neighbor? Strategies of sympatric freshwater decapods (Crustacea) for coexistence JS Baumart, MM Dalosto, AS Gonçalves, AV Palaoro, S Santos Hydrobiologia 762, 29-39, 2015 | 27 | 2015 |
| Aggressiveness and life underground: the case of burrowing crayfish MM Dalosto, AV Palaoro, JR Costa, S Santos Behaviour, 3-22, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
| The hidden links between animal weapons, fighting style, and their effect on contest success: A meta‐analysis AV Palaoro, PEC Peixoto Biological Reviews 97 (5), 1948-1966, 2022 | 22 | 2022 |
| Fight intensity correlates with stronger and more mechanically efficient weapons in three species of Aegla crabs AV Palaoro, PEC Peixoto, F Benso-Lopes, DS Boligon, S Santos Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74, 1-11, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
| One step ahead of the enemy: investigating aggressive interactions between invasive and native crayfish before the contact in nature MM Dalosto, AV Palaoro, C Souty-Grosset, SLS Bueno, TG Loureiro, ... Biological invasions 17, 3503-3515, 2015 | 22 | 2015 |
| Assessing the importance of burrows through behavioral observations of Parastacus brasiliensis, a Neotropical burrowing crayfish (Crustacea), in laboratory … AV Palaoro, MM Dalosto, C Coutinho, S Santos Zoological Studies 52, 1-8, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Mother-offspring relationship in the Neotropical burrowing crayfish Parastacus pilimanus (Von Martens, 1869) (Decapoda, Parastacidae) MM Dalosto, AV Palaoro, S Santos Crustaceana 85 (11), 1305-1315, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| Pay attention to the ladies: female aggressive behavior and weapon allometry provide clues for sexual selection in freshwater anomurans (Decapoda: Aeglidae) MM Dalosto, L Ayres-Peres, PB Araujo, S Santos, AV Palaoro Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73, 1-11, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
| Population biology of Aegla platensis (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae) in a tributary of the Uruguay River, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil MM Dalosto, AV Palaoro, D Oliveira, É Samuelsson, S Santos Zoologia (Curitiba) 31, 215-222, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| How does environment influence fighting? The effects of tidal flow on resource value and fighting costs in sea anemones AV Palaoro, M Velasque, S Santos, M Briffa Biology Letters 13 (5), 20170011, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
| How variable is agonistic behavior among crab species? A case study on freshwater anomurans (C rustacea: D ecapoda: A eglidae) L Ayres‐Peres, PB Araujo, CG Jara, AV Palaoro, S Santos Journal of Zoology 297 (2), 115-122, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| Regenerated claws of the virile crayfish Faxonius virilis (Hagen, 1870) (Decapoda: Astacidea: Cambaridae) generate weaker pinching forces compared to original … ZA Graham, C Vargas, MJ Angilletta Jr, AV Palaoro Journal of Crustacean Biology 41 (3), ruab036, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
| Fighting scars: heavier gladiator frogs bear more injuries than lighter frogs A Candaten, AG Possenti, ÁA Mainardi, MC da Rocha, AV Palaoro acta ethologica 23, 39-44, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Function predicts the allometry of contest-related traits, but not sexual or male dimorphism in the amazonian tusked harvestman AV Palaoro, S García-Hernández, BA Buzatto, G Machado Evolutionary Ecology 36 (4), 605-630, 2022 | 14 | 2022 |
Sandro SantosProfessor de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa MariaVerified email at ufsm.br
