Student Publications

Beck, K. B.; Farine, D. R.; Kempenaers, B.: Winter associations predict social and extra-pair mating patterns in a wild songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 (1921), 20192606 (2020)

Beck, K. B.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Analysis of within-individual variation in extrapair paternity in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) shows low repeatability and little effect of changes in neighborhood. Behavioral Ecology 31 (6), pp. 1303 - 1315 (2020)

Ben-Mocha, Y.: Why do human and non-human species conceal mating? The cooperation maintenance hypothesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 (1932), 20201330 (2020)

Carballo, L.; Delhey, K.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Body size and climate as predictors of plumage colouration and sexual dichromatism in parrots. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33 (11), pp. 1543 - 1557 (2020)

Curk, T.; Pokrovsky, I. G.; Lecomte, N.; Aarvak, T.; Burnham, K.; Dietz, A.; Franke, A.; Gauthier, G.; Jacobsen, K.-O.; Kidd, J. et al.; Lewis, S. B.; Øien, I. J.; Solheim, R.; Wiebe, K.; Wikelski, M.; Therrien, J.-F.; Safi, K.: Arctic avian predators synchronise their spring migration with the northern progression of snowmelt. Scientific Reports 10, 7220 (2020)

Fröhlich, M.; Müller, G.; Zeiträg, C.; Wittig, R. M.; Pika, S.: Begging and social tolerance: Food solicitation tactics in young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild. Evolution and Human Behavior 41 (2), pp. 126 - 135 (2020)

Gilsenan, C.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Timing of arrival in the breeding area is repeatable and affects reproductive success in a non‐migratory population of blue tits. Journal of Animal Ecology 89 (4), pp. 1017 - 1031 (2020)

Giraldo Deck, L. M.; Goymann, W.; Safari, I.; Dawson, D. A.; Stocks, M.; Burke, T.; Lank, D. B.; Küpper, C.: Development of intraspecific size variation in black coucals, white‐browed coucals and ruffs from hatching to fledging. Journal of Avian Biology 51 (8), e02440 (2020)

Hügel, T.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Light might suppress both types of sound‐evoked antipredator flight in moths. Ecology and Evolution 10 (23), pp. 13134 - 13142 (2020)

Karagic, N.; Meyer, A.; Hulsey, C. D.: Phenotypic plasticity in vertebrate dentitions. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60 (3), pp. 608 - 618 (2020)

Karagic, N.; Schneider, R. F.; Meyer, A.; Hulsey, C. D.: A genomic cluster containing novel and conserved genes is associated with cichlid fish dental developmental convergence. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37 (11), pp. 3165 - 3174 (2020)

Ko, M.-C.; van Meir, V.; Vellema, M.; Gahr, M.: Characteristics of song, brain-anatomy and blood androgen levels in spontaneously singing female canaries. Hormones and Behavior 117, 104614 (2020)

Kohles, J. E.; Carter, G. G.; Page, R. A.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Socially foraging bats discriminate between group members based on search-phase echolocation calls. Behavioral Ecology 31 (5), pp. 1103 - 1112 (2020)

Krietsch, J.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Wind conditions influence breeding season movements in a nomadic polygynous shorebird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 (1920), 20192789 (2020)

Mentesana, L.; Moiron, M.; Guedes, E.; Cavalli, E.; Tassino, B.; Adreani, M. N.: Defending as a unit: Sex- and context-specific territorial defence in a duetting bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74 (9), 111 (2020)

Monte, A.; Cerwenka, A. F.; Ruthensteiner, B.; Gahr, M.; Düring, D. N.: The hummingbird syrinx morphome: A detailed three-dimensional description of the black jacobin’s vocal organ. BMC Zoology 5 (1), 7 (2020)

Papageorgiou, D.; Farine, D. R.: Group size and composition influence collective movement in a highly social terrestrial bird. eLife 9, e59902 (2020)

Pei, Y.; Forstmeier, W.; Kempenaers, B.: Offspring performance is well buffered against stress experienced by ancestors. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 74 (7), pp. 1525 - 1539 (2020)

Pei, Y.; Forstmeier, W.; Wang, D.; Martin, K.; Rutkowska, J.; Kempenaers, B.: Proximate causes of infertility and embryo mortality in captive zebra finches. American Naturalist 196 (5), pp. 577 - 596 (2020)

Pika, S.; Sima, M. J.; Blum, C. R.; Herrmann, E.; Mundry, R.: Ravens parallel great apes in physical and social cognitive skills. Scientific Reports 10, 20617 (2020)

Plaza, M.; Burke, T.; Cox, T.; Flynn-Carroll, A.; Girndt, A.; Halford, G.; Martin, D. A.; Sanchez-Fortun, M.; Sanchez Tojar, A.; Somerville, J. et al.; Schroeder, J.: Repeatable social network node‐based metrics across populations and contexts in a passerine. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33 (11), pp. 1634 - 1642 (2020)

Raffini, F.; Schneider, R. F.; Franchini, P.; Kautt, A. F.; Meyer, A.: Diving into divergence: Differentiation in swimming performances, physiology and gene expression between locally‐adapted sympatric cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology 29 (7), pp. 1219 - 1234 (2020)

Soultan, A.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: Classifying biogeographic realms of the endemic fauna in the Afro‐Arabian region. Ecology and Evolution 10 (16), pp. 8669 - 8680 (2020)

van der Meij, J.; Ungurean, G.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Beckers, G. J. L.: Evolution of sleep in relation to memory – A birds’ brain view. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 33, pp. 78 - 85 (2020)

Weisbrod, B.; Wood, S. A.; Steiner, K.; Whyte-Wilding, R.; Puddick, J.; Laroche, O.; Dietrich, D. R.: Is a central sediment sample sufficient? Exploring spatial and temporal microbial diversity in a small lake. Toxins 12 (9), 580 (2020)

Wetzel, D. P.; Mutzel, A.; Wright, J.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior and hunger at different biological levels of analysis. Behavioral Ecology 31 (4), pp. 960 - 970 (2020)

Zhang, Z. J.; Liu, Y.; Brunel, C.; van Kleunen, M.: Soil-microorganism-mediated invasional meltdown in plants. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 (12), pp. 1612 - 1621 (2020)