Evolutionary drivers of seasonal plumage colours: colour change by moult correlates with sexual selection, predation risk and seasonality across passerines

Reconciling ecogeographical rules: rainfall and temperature predict global colour variation in the largest bird radiation

(2019) Kaspar Delhey et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Conspicuous Plumage Does Not Increase Predation Risk: A Continent-Wide Test Using Model Songbirds

(2019) Kristal E. Cain et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Rapid plastic breeding response to rain matches peak prey abundance in a tropical savanna bird

(2019) Nataly Hidalgo Aranzamendi et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Function and underlying mechanisms of seasonal colour moulting in mammals and birds: what keeps them changing in a warming world?

(2018) Marketa Zimova et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Fear-based niche shifts in neotropical birds

(2018) Ari E. Martínez et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of thyroid hormone manipulation on pre-nuptial molt, luteinizing hormone and testicular growth in male white-crowned sparrows ( Zonotrichia leuchophrys gambelii )

(2018) Jonathan H. Pérez et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

From ornament to armament or loss of function? Breeding plumage acquisition in a genetically monogamous bird

(2018) Marie Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Convergence of biannual moulting strategies across birds and mammals

(2018) Roxanne S. Beltran et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Winter color polymorphisms identify global hot spots for evolutionary rescue from climate change

(2018) L. Scott Mills et al.   SCIENCE

Climate change is affecting mortality of weasels due to camouflage mismatch

(2018) Kamal Atmeh et al.   Scientific Reports

Ecology and breeding biology of a tropical bird, the Lovely Fairy-Wren (Malurus amabilis)

(2018) Ana V. Leitão et al.   EMU

House sparrows offset the physiological trade-off between immune response and feather growth by adjusting foraging behavior

(2017) Miriam Ben-Hamo et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Timing as a sexually selected trait: the right mate at the right moment

(2017) Michaela Hau et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bright birds are cautious: seasonally conspicuous plumage prompts risk avoidance by male superb fairy-wrens

(2017) Alexandra McQueen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

(2017) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Scientific Data

Male Red-backed Fairywrens appear to enhance a plumage-based signal via adventitious molt

(2016) Samantha M. Lantz et al.   AUK

Factors influencing the evolution of moult in the non-breeding season: insights from the family Motacillidae

(2016) Santiago Guallar et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

High fitness costs of climate change-induced camouflage mismatch

(2016) Marketa Zimova et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Carotenoid-based bill coloration functions as a social, not sexual, signal in songbirds (Aves: Passeriformes)

(2015) C. J. Dey et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The effects of life history and sexual selection on male and female plumage colouration

(2015) James Dale et al.   NATURE

Migration and the evolution of sexual dichromatism: evolutionary loss of female coloration with migration among wood-warblers

(2015) Richard K. Simpson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global gradients of avian longevity support the classic evolutionary theory of ageing

(2014) M. Valcu et al.   ECOGRAPHY

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Patterns of Research Effort in Birds

(2014) Simon Ducatez et al.   PLoS One

Snowshoe hares display limited phenotypic plasticity to mismatch in seasonal camouflage

(2014) M. Zimova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Linear-Time Algorithm for Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Trait Evolution Models

(2014) Lam si Tung Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Breeding seasonality in central Amazonian rainforest birds

(2013) Philip C. Stouffer et al.   AUK

Realising the full potential of citizen science monitoring programs

(2013) Ayesha I.T. Tulloch et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Seasonal male plumage as a multi-component sexual signal: insights and opportunities

(2013) Anne Peters et al.   EMU

Breaking down seasonality: Androgen modulation and stress response in a highly stable environment

(2013) Paulina L. González-Gómez et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Climate Change and Human Disturbance Can Lead to Local Extinction of Alpine Rock Ptarmigan: New Insight from the Western Italian Alps

(2013) Simona Imperio et al.   PLoS One

Camouflage mismatch in seasonal coat color due to decreased snow duration

(2013) L. S. Mills et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of predation risk on foraging behaviour and group size: adaptations in a social cooperative species

(2012) Enrico Sorato et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Foraging guild influences dependence on heterospecific alarm calls in Amazonian bird flocks

(2012) Ari E. Martínez et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

rangeMapper: a platform for the study of macroecology of life-history traits

(2012) Mihai Valcu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The phenology of molting, breeding and their overlap in central Amazonian birds

(2012) Erik I. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

A tropical bird can use the equatorial change in sunrise and sunset times to synchronize its circannual clock

(2012) W. Goymann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Radical loss of an extreme extra-pair mating system

(2012) Sjouke A Kingma et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Identifying the Critical Climatic Time Window That Affects Trait Expression

(2011) Martijn van de Pol et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Effects of Sunlight Exposure on Carotenoid-Based and Structural Coloration of the Blue-tailed Bee-eater

(2011) Adrian Surmacki et al.   CONDOR

Patterns of seasonal and yearly mass variation in West African tropical savannah birds

(2011) DANIEL T. C. COX et al.   IBIS

Effect of feather abrasion on structural coloration in male eastern bluebirds Sialia sialis

(2011) Adrian Surmacki et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Environmental Uncertainty and the Global Biogeography of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

(2010) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Seasonal Changes in Colour: A Comparison of Structural, Melanin- and Carotenoid-Based Plumage Colours

(2010) Kaspar Delhey et al.   PLoS One

Insights from comparative analyses of aging in birds and mammals

(2009) Robert E. Ricklefs   AGING CELL

Vigilance and predation of a forest-living bird species depend on large-scale habitat structure

(2009) Michael Griesser et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species

(2009) Dustin R. Rubenstein et al.   NATURE

Phylogenetic Logistic Regression for Binary Dependent Variables

(2009) Anthony R. Ives et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Seasonal colour change by moult or by the abrasion of feather tips: a comparative study

(2008) JÁCINT TÖKÖLYI et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Predator perches: a visual search perspective

(2008) Malte Andersson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Swingin' in the rain: condition dependence and sexual selection in a capricious world

(2008) A. Cockburn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES