Ben Sheldon

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Ben Sheldon is affiliated with the following schools: Uppsala University, University of Sheffield, University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Ben C. Sheldon is the Luc Hoffmann Chair in Field Ornithology and Director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology of the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology. He was Head of the Department of Zoology between 2016 and 2021.

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Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology. (1996) (2378)
Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Climate Change in a Wild Bird Population (2008) (1127)
Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology. (2010) (735)
Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds (2014) (539)
Constraints in the Evolution of Sex Ratio Adjustment (2002) (467)
Infectious diseases, reproductive effort and the cost of reproduction in birds. (1994) (429)
Genetic architecture of fitness and nonfitness traits: empirical patterns and development of ideas (1999) (429)
Ultraviolet colour variation influences blue tit sex ratios (1999) (423)
A quantitative review of heterozygosity–fitness correlations in animal populations (2009) (422)
Explaining stasis: microevolutionary studies in natural populations (2004) (417)
Male phenotype, fertility, and the pursuit of extra-pair copulations by female birds (1994) (407)
Sexually antagonistic genetic variation for fitness in red deer (2007) (373)
Sex ratio adjustment in relation to paternal attractiveness in a wild bird population. (1996) (353)
Genetic basis of fitness differences in natural populations (2008) (350)
Overlapping community detection using Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization. (2011) (348)
Trade-offs between life-history traits and a secondary sexual character in male collared flycatchers (1995) (342)
Lifetime Reproductive Success and Heritability in Nature (2000) (341)
Maternal Dominance, Maternal Condition, and Offspring Sex Ratio in Ungulate Mammals (2004) (331)
The Misuse of BLUP in Ecology and Evolution (2009) (326)
Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast-slow life-history continuum. (2008) (325)
Climatic effects on breeding and morphology: evidence for phenotypic plasticity (2000) (324)
Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major). (2013) (303)
Microsatellite ‘evolution’: directionality or bias? (1995) (302)
Hybridization and adaptive mate choice in flycatchers (2001) (302)
Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds (2012) (298)
Paternal genetic contribution to offspring condition predicted by size of male secondary sexual character (1997) (292)
Evolution driven by differential dispersal within a wild bird population (2005) (277)
NATURAL SELECTION AND INHERITANCE OF BREEDING TIME AND CLUTCH SIZE IN THE COLLARED FLYCATCHER (2003) (274)
Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection (2017) (238)
Chronic malaria infections increase family inequalities and reduce parental fitness: experimental evidence from a wild bird population (2010) (236)
Recent studies of avian sex ratios (1998) (235)
Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient (2019) (230)
Cryptic evolution in a wild bird population (2001) (225)
Sexual selection resulting from extrapair paternity in collared flycatchers (1999) (220)
Sexually transmitted disease in birds: occurrence and evolutionary significance. (1993) (217)
Components of Variance Underlying Fitness in a Natural Population of the Great Tit Parus major (2004) (210)
Sex chromosome evolution and speciation in Ficedula flycatchers (2003) (209)
Individual-level personality influences social foraging and collective behaviour in wild birds (2014) (208)
Within‐population variation in prevalence and lineage distribution of avian malaria in blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus (2007) (207)
Adaptive plasticity in mate preference linked to differences in reproductive effort (2000) (199)
Elevated reproductive effort increases blood parasitaemia and decreases immune function in birds: a meta-regression approach (2009) (199)
Severe inbreeding depression in collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis) (2002) (196)
Great tits growing old: selective disappearance and the partitioning of senescence to stages within the breeding cycle (2009) (188)
Avian Quantitative Genetics (2001) (183)
Phenotypic Selection on a Heritable Size Trait Revisited (2001) (183)
Heterogeneous selection on a heritable temperament trait in a variable environment. (2009) (175)
Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome (2016) (169)
Microsatellite evolution--a reciprocal study of repeat lengths at homologous loci in cattle and sheep. (1997) (169)
Relating paternity to paternal care. (2002) (167)
NATURAL SELECTION AND GENETIC VARIATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE REACTION NORMS IN A WILD BIRD POPULATION (2005) (164)
Habitat quality, nestling diet, and provisioning behaviour in great tits Parus major (2009) (162)
Association between DRD4 gene polymorphism and personality variation in great tits: a test across four wild populations (2010) (161)
New tools for sex identification and the study of sex allocation in birds. (1997) (159)
Seasonal variation in Plasmodium prevalence in a population of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus. (2008) (157)
CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN TWO GREAT TIT (PARUS MAJOR) POPULATIONS (2010) (157)
Natural selection on the genetical component of variance in body condition in a wild bird population (2001) (155)
Dispersal as a means of inbreeding avoidance in a wild bird population (2008) (155)
Quantitative genetics of age at reproduction in wild swans: support for antagonistic pleiotropy models of senescence. (2006) (155)
Quantitative Assessment of the Importance of Phenotypic Plasticity in Adaptation to Climate Change in Wild Bird Populations (2013) (152)
Fitness effects of endemic malaria infections in a wild bird population: the importance of ecological structure. (2011) (151)
The Benefits of Allocating Sex (2000) (149)
Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds (2015) (148)
Inferring social network structure in ecological systems from spatio-temporal data streams (2012) (144)
Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait (2017) (143)
Milk bottles revisited: social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus (2013) (141)
Speciation, introgressive hybridization and nonlinear rate of molecular evolution in flycatchers (2001) (141)
Age-specific reproduction in a long-lived species: the combined effects of senescence and individual quality (2008) (139)
Molecular epidemiology of malaria prevalence and parasitaemia in a wild bird population (2011) (137)
Correlations between ultraviolet coloration, overwinter survival and offspring sex ratio in the blue tit (2003) (135)
The Challenges of Integrating Oxidative Stress into Life-History Biology (2011) (134)
Why do male birds not discriminate between their own and extra-pair offspring? (1996) (134)
Seasonal changes in a ultraviolet structural colour signal in blue tits, Parus caeruleus (2002) (133)
SEX‐RATIO ADJUSTMENT WHEN RELATIVES INTERACT: A TEST OF CONSTRAINTS ON ADAPTATION (2005) (126)
Evolution in a Changing Environment: A Case Study with Great Tit Fledging Mass (2004) (123)
The Forms and Fitness Cost of Senescence: Age-Specific Recapture, Survival, Reproduction, and Reproductive Value in a Wild Bird Population (2011) (121)
Density effects on life-history traits in a wild population of the great tit Parus major: analyses of long-term data with GIS techniques. (2006) (121)
Consistent individual differences in the social phenotypes of wild great tits, Parus major (2015) (118)
The cost of reproduction and sexual selection (1998) (116)
GENDER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY IN NESTLING COLLARED FLYCATCHERS (1998) (114)
Age-dependent genetic variance in a life-history trait in the mute swan (2006) (110)
Social network analysis of mixed-species flocks: exploring the structure and evolution of interspecific social behaviour (2012) (108)
Genomic dissection of variation in clutch size and egg mass in a wild great tit (Parus major) population (2013) (105)
Individual variation in rates of senescence: natal origin effects and disposable soma in a wild bird population. (2010) (105)
Tritrophic phenological match–mismatch in space and time (2018) (104)
Experimental analysis of sperm competition mechanisms in a wild bird population (2002) (103)
Characterization and 454 pyrosequencing of Major Histocompatibility Complex class I genes in the great tit reveal complexity in a passerine system (2012) (103)
QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN THE COLLARED FLYCATCHER, FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS (1998) (101)
Phenotypic correlates of Clock gene variation in a wild blue tit population: evidence for a role in seasonal timing of reproduction (2009) (99)
Studying paternity and paternal care: pitfalls and problems (1997) (99)
A comparative study of sperm-egg interactions in birds. (1994) (98)
Avian haematozoan parasites and their associations with mosquitoes across Southwest Pacific Islands (2008) (97)
Mhc supertypes confer both qualitative and quantitative resistance to avian malaria infections in a wild bird population (2013) (97)
Site‐occupancy modelling as a novel framework for assessing test sensitivity and estimating wildlife disease prevalence from imperfect diagnostic tests (2012) (96)
Inbreeding depression along a life‐history continuum in the great tit (2007) (95)
Sex Differences in the Persistence of Natal Environmental Effects on Life Histories (2009) (95)
Testis size variation in the greenfinch Carduelis chloris : relevance for some recent models of sexual selection (1999) (93)
Interspecific Patterns of Genetic Diversity in Birds: Correlations with Extinction Risk (2008) (92)
When environmental variation short-circuits natural selection (2003) (91)
Infection dynamics of endemic malaria in a wild bird population: parasite species-dependent drivers of spatial and temporal variation in transmission rates. (2011) (89)
Sperm competition in the chaffinch: the role of the female (1994) (87)
Offspring sex and paternity in the collared flycatcher (1996) (85)
Cooperative Breeders Adjust Offspring Sex Ratios to Produce Helpful Helpers (2005) (84)
Trans‐generational effects on ageing in a wild bird population (2010) (84)
Trading up: the fitness consequences of divorce in monogamous birds (2015) (84)
Inferring social structure from temporal data (2015) (82)
Scale and state dependence of the relationship between personality and dispersal in a great tit population. (2011) (82)
THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY ON MULTIVARIATE SELECTION ON REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN FEMALE GREAT TITS (2007) (81)
Identification Guide to European Non-Passerines Kevin Baker (1996) (81)
Partitioning of genetic variation across the genome using multimarker methods in a wild bird population (2013) (80)
The role of social and ecological processes in structuring animal populations: a case study from automated tracking of wild birds (2015) (78)
Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict (2000) (78)
Stability of genetic variance and covariance for reproductive characters in the face of climate change in a wild bird population (2008) (78)
CLIMATIC AND TEMPORAL EFFECTS ON THE EXPRESSION OF SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS: GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENTS (2004) (77)
Variation of adult Great Tit Parus major body condition and blood parameters in relation to sex, age, year and season (2009) (76)
Social carry‐over effects underpin trans‐seasonally linked structure in a wild bird population (2016) (73)
Collective decision making and social interaction rules in mixed-species flocks of songbirds (2014) (73)
Phenotypic plasticity in the expression of sexually selected traits: neglected components of variation (2001) (72)
Temporal differences in food abundance promote coexistence between two congeneric passerines (2009) (72)
Selection for territory acquisition is modulated by social network structure in a wild songbird (2015) (72)
Promiscuity, paternity and personality in the great tit (2012) (71)
Explaining variance of avian malaria infection in the wild: the importance of host density, habitat, individual life-history and oxidative stress (2013) (68)
Certainty of paternity and paternal effort in the collared flycatcher (1997) (67)
Characterisation of the transcriptome of a wild great tit Parus major population by next generation sequencing (2011) (67)
DIVERGENT PATTERNS OF AGE‐DEPENDENCE IN ORNAMENTAL AND REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN THE COLLARED FLYCATCHER (2011) (67)
Replicated analysis of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits in two wild great tit populations (2015) (66)
Environmental Sensitivity in Relation to Size and Sex in Birds: Meta‐Regression Analysis (2009) (66)
Biogeographical patterns of blood parasite lineage diversity in avian hosts from southern Melanesian islands (2009) (65)
Experimental Evidence that Social Relationships Determine Individual Foraging Behavior (2015) (65)
Evolutionary Response to Selection on Clutch Size in a Long‐Term Study of the Mute Swan (2006) (65)
THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION (1998) (65)
Long-term familiarity promotes joining in neighbour nest defence (2012) (65)
Inbreeding avoidance under different null models of random mating in the great tit. (2009) (64)
Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds (2017) (64)
Emergence of a Novel Avian Pox Disease in British Tit Species (2012) (64)
Plumage brightness in relation to haematozoan infections in the greenfinch Carduelis chloris: Bright males are a good bet (1999) (60)
Experimental manipulation of avian social structure reveals segregation is carried over across contexts (2015) (60)
Effects of neighbor familiarity on reproductive success in the great tit (Parus major) (2012) (60)
Sire coloration influences offspring survival under predation risk in the moorfrog (2003) (60)
The use of GIS in estimating spatial variation in habitat quality: a case study of lay-date in the Great Tit Parus major (2007) (59)
Scale-Dependent Phenological Synchrony between Songbirds and Their Caterpillar Food Source (2015) (59)
Personality and basal metabolic rate in a wild bird population (2014) (58)
Mhc‐linked survival and lifetime reproductive success in a wild population of great tits (2013) (56)
Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others (2017) (55)
Replicated high-density genetic maps of two great tit populations reveal fine-scale genomic departures from sex-equal recombination rates (2013) (54)
The design and cross‐population application of a genome‐wide SNP chip for the great tit Parus major (2012) (54)
SEX-RATIO ADJUSTMENT WHEN RELATIVES INTERACT: A TEST OF CONSTRAINTS ON ADAPTATION (2005) (53)
Calcium effects on life-history traits in a wild population of the great tit (Parus major): analysis of long-term data at several spatial scales (2009) (52)
Environmental stability and the evolution of cooperative breeding in hornbills (2013) (52)
Quantitative Genetics of a Carotenoid-Based Color: Heritability and Persistent Natal Environmental Effects in the Great Tit (2011) (51)
The shifting phenological landscape: Within‐ and between‐species variation in leaf emergence in a mixed‐deciduous woodland (2017) (49)
Using cross-classified multivariate mixed response models with application to life history traits in great tits (Parus major) (2007) (48)
The influence of nonrandom extra‐pair paternity on heritability estimates derived from wild pedigrees (2015) (47)
Genetic variation and natural selection on blue tit body condition in different environments (1999) (47)
Basal metabolic rate and the rate of senescence in the great tit (2011) (46)
Pathways of information transmission among wild songbirds follow experimentally imposed changes in social foraging structure (2016) (46)
FINE‐SCALE GENETIC STRUCTURE IN A WILD BIRD POPULATION: THE ROLE OF LIMITED DISPERSAL AND ENVIRONMENTALLY BASED SELECTION AS CAUSAL FACTORS (2013) (45)
The evolution of labile traits in sex‐ and age‐structured populations (2016) (45)
Low variability and absence of phenotypic correlates of Clock gene variation in a great tit Parus major population (2010) (44)
The Environmental Dependence of Inbreeding Depression in a Wild Bird Population (2007) (43)
Testing for effects of climate change on competitive relationships and coexistence between two bird species (2015) (41)
Predicting bird phenology from space: satellite‐derived vegetation green‐up signal uncovers spatial variation in phenological synchrony between birds and their environment (2015) (41)
Integrating candidate gene and quantitative genetic approaches to understand variation in timing of breeding in wild tit populations (2012) (41)
The Seven Ages of Pan (2010) (41)
Locus‐specific protocol for nine different innate immune genes (antimicrobial peptides: β‐defensins) across passerine bird species reveals within‐species coding variation and a case of trans‐species polymorphisms (2011) (40)
Data depth, data completeness, and their influence on quantitative genetic estimation in two contrasting bird populations (2006) (39)
Age, sex and beauty: methodological dependence of age- and sex-dichromatism in the great tit Parus major (2010) (39)
Individual variation in winter supplementary food consumption and its consequences for reproduction in wild birds (2016) (39)
Environmental and genetic variation in body condition and blood profile of great tit Parus major nestlings (2009) (38)
Testing genetic models of mate choice evolution in the wild. (2006) (37)
Highly Variable Recombinational Landscape Modulates Efficacy of Natural Selection in Birds (2014) (37)
Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals (2020) (37)
In vitro tests of natural allelic variation of innate immune genes (avian β‐defensins) reveal functional differences in microbial inhibition (2010) (37)
Context-dependent effects of parental effort on malaria infection in a wild bird population, and their role in reproductive trade-offs (2010) (36)
Counting conformity: evaluating the units of information in frequency-dependent social learning (2015) (36)
Spatial determinants of infection risk in a multi‐species avian malaria system (2013) (35)
Personality shapes pair bonding in a wild bird social system (2018) (34)
Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts (2020) (34)
A comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the hornbills (Aves: Bucerotidae). (2013) (33)
A high‐density SNP chip for genotyping great tit (Parus major) populations and its application to studying the genetic architecture of exploration behaviour (2018) (32)
NO EVIDENCE FOR AVIAN MALARIA INFECTION DURING THE NESTLING PHASE IN A PASSERINE BIRD (2006) (32)
Edge Effects in the Great Tit: Analyses of Long‐term Data with GIS Techniques (2007) (32)
Copulation behavior and paternity in the chaffinch (1994) (31)
Epidemiology of the Emergent Disease Paridae pox in an Intensively Studied Wild Bird Population (2012) (30)
Antibody responses to avian influenza viruses in wild birds broaden with age (2016) (30)
Repeatability and Method-Dependent Variation of Blood Parameters in Wild-Caught Great Tits Parus major (2008) (29)
Physiological Condition and Breeding Performance of the Great Tit (2010) (29)
Indirectly connected: simple social differences can explain the causes and apparent consequences of complex social network positions (2017) (29)
Male ornamentation, timing of breeding, and cost of polygyny in the collared flycatcher (2003) (28)
Ecological causes of multilevel covariance between size and first-year survival in a wild bird population. (2015) (28)
Coamplification of Leucocytozoon by PCR Diagnostic Tests for Avian Malaria: A Cautionary Note (2006) (28)
Individual and Population-Level Impacts of an Emerging Poxvirus Disease in a Wild Population of Great Tits (2012) (28)
Phenological asynchrony: a ticking time-bomb for seemingly stable populations? (2020) (27)
Male great tits assort by personality during the breeding season (2017) (26)
Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals (2022) (25)
Sex ratios (2002) (25)
Incubation behavior adjustments, driven by ambient temperature variation, improve synchrony between hatch dates and caterpillar peak in a wild bird population (2017) (25)
Social learning of acoustic anti-predator cues occurs between wild bird species (2020) (25)
Health-State Variables and Enzymatic Biomarkers as Survival Predictors in Nestling Great Tits (Parus Major): Effects of Environmental Conditions (2008) (25)
A multievent approach to estimating pair fidelity and heterogeneity in state transitions (2013) (24)
Pigments versus structure: examining the mechanism of age-dependent change in a carotenoid-based colour. (2013) (23)
The contribution of an avian top predator to selection in prey species. (2014) (22)
No evidence for MHC class I‐based disassortative mating in a wild population of great tits (2015) (22)
Evidence of a link between survival and pair fidelity across multiple tit populations (2015) (22)
Patterns of natural selection on morphology of male and female collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis) (2000) (22)
Heterozygosity is unrelated to adult fitness measures in a large, noninbred population of great tits (Parus major) (2011) (21)
The epidemiology underlying age-related avian malaria infection in a long-lived host: the mute swan Cygnus olor (2013) (20)
Egg patterning is not a reliable indicator of intraspecific brood parasitism in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus (2009) (20)
Fecundity selection on ornamental plumage colour differs between ages and sexes and varies over small spatial scales (2011) (19)
Dispersal in a patchy landscape reveals contrasting determinants of infection in a wild avian malaria system. (2014) (19)
Individual variability and versatility in an eco-evolutionary model of avian migration (2020) (18)
Nonlethal predator effects on the turn-over of wild bird flocks (2016) (18)
Timing and Use of Paternity Guards By Male Chaffinches (1994) (18)
Song rate and fertility in the chaffinch (1994) (18)
Social Behaviour: Population density, social behaviour and sex allocation (2010) (18)
The socio-ecology of fear: Nonlethal predator effects on the social composition of wild bird flocks (2016) (17)
Correlates of the occurrence of inbreeding in a wild bird population (2008) (17)
Low but contrasting neutral genetic differentiation shaped by winter temperature in European great tits (2016) (17)
Who escapes detection? Quantifying the causes and consequences of sampling biases in a long-term field study. (2015) (17)
An experimental test of the causes of small‐scale phenotypic differentiation in a population of great tits (2006) (17)
Cue identification in phenology: A case study of the predictive performance of current statistical tools (2019) (16)
Human activity shapes the wintering ecology of a migratory bird (2021) (16)
Similar patterns of age‐specific reproduction in an island and mainland population of great tits Parus major (2010) (15)
The ecology and age structure of a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus outbreak in wild mute swans (2012) (15)
Behavioural ecology: Love thy neighbour (2014) (15)
To graze or gorge: consistency and flexibility of individual foraging tactics in tits (2017) (15)
Heterotic effects on fitness in a wild bird population (2003) (14)
Spatial, temporal and individual-based differences in nest-site visits and subsequent reproductive success in wild great tits (2018) (14)
Nonautosomal Genetic Variation in Carotenoid Coloration (2014) (14)
Comparative micro-epidemiology of pathogenic avian influenza virus outbreaks in a wild bird population (2019) (13)
The great tit HapMap project: a continental-scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird (2019) (13)
Neural ordinary differential equations for ecological and evolutionary time‐series analysis (2020) (13)
Mate replacement in experimentally widowed collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis): determinants and outcomes (1999) (13)
Efficient Bayesian Community Detection using Non-negative Matrix Factorisation (2010) (13)
Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: The SPI‐Birds data hub (2020) (13)
Transparency and open processes in Journal of Animal Ecology. (2018) (12)
Diurnal variation in the production of vocal information about food supports a model of social adjustment in wild songbirds (2019) (12)
Multivariate selection and intersexual genetic constraints in a wild bird population (2016) (12)
Confounded correlations: a reply to Lifjeld et al. and Wagner et al. (1998) (12)
Seasonality of carotenoid‐based plumage coloration: modelling wavelength‐specific change through spectral reconstruction (2012) (12)
Urban behavioural adaptation (2013) (12)
Carry-over effects of the social environment on future divorce probability in a wild bird population (2015) (12)
Wherever I may roam: social viscosity and kin affiliation in a wild population despite natal dispersal (2016) (12)
Promiscuity, inbreeding and dispersal propensity in great tits (2012) (11)
Movement and conformity interact to establish local behavioural traditions in animal populations (2018) (11)
It takes two: Heritable male effects on reproductive timing but not clutch size in a wild bird population * (2020) (11)
Colour in a new light: a spectral perspective on the quantitative genetics of carotenoid colouration (2015) (10)
Social and spatial effects on genetic variation between foraging flocks in a wild bird population (2017) (10)
Differential allocation and ‘good genes’ (2001) (10)
Are Great Tits (Parus major) Inhabiting the Vicinity of a Pulp Mill Healthy? Impacts on Physiology and Breeding Performance (2010) (9)
Recognising the key role of individual recognition in social networks. (2021) (9)
Adaptive maternal effects and rapid population differentiation (2002) (9)
Testing the effect of quantitative genetic inheritance in structured models on projections of population dynamics (2020) (9)
Debating sexual selection and matings strategies: In their review "Reproductive social behavior".... (2006) (8)
How to Deal with PCR Contamination in Molecular Microbial Ecology (2014) (8)
Inbreeding: When Parents Transmit More Than Genes (2006) (8)
Partner’s age, not social environment, predicts extrapair paternity in wild great tits (Parus major) (2019) (8)
Phenotypic selection on a heritable trait revisted. (2001) (8)
Key bird species of Marojejy Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar (1992) (8)
Accounting for interspecific competition and age structure in demographic analyses of density dependence improves predictions of fluctuations in population size. (2019) (8)
Reproductive anatomy of the chaffinch in relation to sperm competition (1994) (8)
Stable multi-level social structure is maintained by habitat geometry in a wild bird population (2019) (8)
Causes and consequences of individual variation in the extent of post-juvenile moult in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus (Passeriformes: Paridae) (2015) (8)
Investigating the effects of age‐related spatial structuring on the transmission of a tick‐borne virus in a colonially breeding host (2017) (8)
Information use in foraging flocks of songbirds - no evidence for social transmission of patch quality (2019) (7)
Regular ArticlePatterns of natural selection on morphology of male and female collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis) (2000) (7)
Are bowerbird displays cheap? (1996) (7)
Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components (2021) (7)
Social ecology of a woodland songbird community: from individual movements to the emergence of population social structure (2016) (6)
Habitat change and biased sampling influence estimation of diversity trends (2021) (6)
Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation (2022) (6)
Information use in foraging flocks of songbirds: no evidence for social transmission of patch quality (2020) (6)
Like a rolling stone: the dynamic world of animal ecology publishing. (2017) (6)
Evolution. The benefits of allocating sex. (2000) (6)
Analysing the Social Spread of Behaviour: Integrating Complex Contagions into Network Based Diffusions (2020) (5)
Wild songbirds exhibit consistent individual differences in inter-specific social behaviour (2019) (5)
Spatial variation in avian phenological response to climate change linked to tree health (2021) (5)
Reduced costs of mixed-species pairings in flycatchers: by-product or female strategy? (2008) (4)
Experimental evidence that nestlings adjust their fledging time to each other in a multiparous bird (2021) (4)
Edge effects on life-history traits in a wild population of the Great Tit: Analyses of a long-term data set with GIS techniques (2006) (4)
Exploring the causes and consequences of cooperative behaviour in wild animal populations using a social network approach (2021) (4)
Why do nestling birds fledge early in the day? (2021) (3)
The expanding value of long-term studies of individuals in the wild (2022) (3)
Response to Comment on “Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection” (2018) (3)
Corrigendum to “A comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the hornbills (Aves: Bucerotidae)” [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 67 (2013) 468–483] (2013) (3)
Animal behaviour: Wise fathers (2003) (3)
The avifauna of the Barito Ulu region. Central Kalimantan (2011) (3)
Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less responsive to climatic variation (2020) (3)
Counting conformity : evaluating the units of measurement in frequency-dependent social learning (2016) (3)
Limited domestic introgression in a final refuge of the wild pigeon (2022) (3)
Sequential Assessment and Decision-Making in Humans (1995) (3)
A new permutation technique to explore and control for spatial autocorrelation (2015) (3)
Flow cytometry for sexing birds - Reply (1997) (2)
Connected data landscape of long-term ecological studies: the SPI-Birds data hub (2020) (2)
Collective decision making and social interaction rules in mixed-species fl ocks of songbirds (2)
And the winner of the inaugural Sidnie Manton Award is…. (2018) (2)
Partitioning of phenotypic variance in life-history traits in the great tit Parus Major (2003) (2)
Inferring social structure from temporal data (2015) (2)
Bill knob size in the Mute Swan: Evidence for a sexually selected trait? (2006) (1)
Reply from h. Ellegren and B.C. Sheldon. (1997) (1)
Evolutionary Biology: Parasite, Know Thyself (2008) (1)
Social ecology of a woodland songbird community : from individual 3 movements to the emergence of population social structure 4 5 6 (2016) (1)
Social phenotype-dependent selection of social environment in wild great and blue tits: an experimental study (2022) (1)
Characterization and 454 pyrosequencing of Major Histocompatibility Complex class I genes in the great tit reveal complexity in a passerine system (2012) (1)
infection in a wild avian malaria system (2013) (1)
University of Groningen Similar patterns of age-specific reproduction in an island and mainland population of great tits (2010) (1)
Disentangling the causes of age-assortative mating in bird populations with contrasting life-history strategies. (2022) (1)
Experimental manipulation of nocturnal nest cavity temperature in wild blue tits (2018) (1)
Phenotypic plasticity increases exposure to extreme climatic events that reduce individual fitness (2023) (1)
Drivers of passive leadership in wild songbirds: species-level differences and spatio-temporally dependent intraspecific effects (2021) (1)
If you go down to the woods today... (2016) (0)
Partitioning of phenotypic covariance among life- history traits in the great tit Parus major (2003) (0)
Tritrophic phenological match–mismatch in space and time (2018) (0)
Evolutionary biology: Rare bird of evolution (2013) (0)
The long reach of family ties (2021) (0)
Social learning mechanisms shape transmission pathways through replicate local social networks of wild birds (2022) (0)
University of Groningen Quantitative Assessment of the Importance of Phenotypic Plasticity in Adaptation to Climate Change in Wild Bird Populations Vedder, (2013) (0)
Spatiotemporal data on pedunculate oak leafing and peak frass dates for the UK (2017) (0)
Explorer Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals (2020) (0)
Probabilistic inference in ecological networks; graph discovery, community detection and modelling dynamic sociality (2013) (0)
Sex Ratios: Human Twins and Fraternal Effects (2007) (0)
Plink files of all typed individuals (2017) (0)
With or without you – pair fidelity and divorce in monogamous birds (2014) (0)
Understanding Bird Behavior (2020) (0)
Cosgrove, Catherine L. and Wood, Matthew J. and Day, Karen P. and Sheldon, Ben C. (2008). Seasonal variation in Plasmodium prevalence in a population of blue tits Cyanistes (2022) (0)
As Shakespeare put it , “ It is a wise father that knows his own child ” . Male bluegill sunfish do : (2003) (0)
Social familiarity and spatially variable environments independently determine reproductive fitness in a wild bird (2023) (0)
Effects of winter social environment on reproductive success in the great tit (Parus major) (2012) (0)
Spatial components of plasticity in tit phenology : adaptation , constraints and amelioration (2013) (0)
A comparative study of sperm\p=n-\egg interactions in birds (2008) (0)
Personality shapes pair bonding in a wild bird social system (2018) (0)
University of Groningen Trans-generational effects on ageing in a wild bird population (2010) (0)
Selection on relationship strength in wild social networks (2014) (0)
Response to Perrier and Charmantier: On the importance of time scales when studying adaptive evolution (2019) (0)
The secret in their MHC: variation and selection in a free living population of great tits (2012) (0)
How to Deal with PCR Contamination in Molecular Microbial Ecology (2014) (0)
Inbreeding and its avoidance in a wild bird population (2007) (0)
D R A F T Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals (2020) (0)
How rapidly can two populations diverge when exposed to different selection pressures ? And what mechanisms contribute to rapid population divergence ? (2002) (0)
Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines (2022) (0)
Seasonal variation in Plasmodium prevalence in a population of 1 blue tits (2019) (0)
Clock genotype for blue tit breeding population 2006-2007 (2010) (0)
Debating sexual selection and mating strategies. (2006) (0)
Debating sexual selection and mating strategies. (2006) (0)
Corrigendum (2011) (0)
Edinburgh Research Explorer Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts (2020) (0)
Habitat segregation and seasonal patterns of food abundance in two regionally coexisting congeneric passerines (2018) (0)
Goodbye and farewell to print. (2019) (0)
DATASET - Predicting bird phenology from space (2015) (0)
Ornithology: Under their wing (2014) (0)

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