Maternal allocation in relation to weather, predation and social factors in a colonial cooperative bird

The benefits of help in cooperative birds – non-existent or difficult to detect?

(2020) Philip Ashley Downing et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

How to make methodological decisions when inferring social networks

(2020) André C. Ferreira et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Collision between biological process and statistical analysis revealed by mean‐centering

(2020) David F. Westneat et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Egg investment in response to helper presence in cooperatively breeding Tibetan ground tits

(2019) Qingtian Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Long-term fitness consequences of breeding density in starling colonies: an observational approach

(2019) Daniel Fuentes et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Safety Cues Can Give Prey More Valuable Information Than Danger Cues

(2019) Barney Luttbeg et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Egg size is unrelated to ambient temperature in the opportunistically breeding zebra finch

(2019) Simon C. Griffith et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

How do helpers help? Helper contributions throughout the nesting cycle in the cooperatively breeding brown-headed nuthatch

(2018) Jessica A. Cusick et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Prenatal maternal effects appear to be insensitive to experimental or natural environmental variation

(2017) Caroline E. Thomson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Maternal allocation in eggs when counting on helpers in a cooperatively breeding bird

(2017) Juliana Valencia et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Assortative mating by colored ornaments in blue tits: space and time matter

(2017) Amélie Fargevieille et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The relationship between egg size and helper number in cooperative breeders: a meta-analysis across species

(2017) Tanmay Dixit et al.   PeerJ

Breeding decisions and output are correlated with both temperature and rainfall in an arid-region passerine, the sociable weaver

(2017) Rafael Mares et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Manipulating carer number versus brood size: complementary but not equivalent ways of quantifying carer effects on offspring

(2016) A.L. Liebl et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Communal roosting, thermoregulatory benefits and breeding group size predictability in cooperatively breeding sociable weavers

(2016) Matthieu Paquet et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Maternal allocation in cooperative breeders: should mothers match or compensate for expected helper contributions?

(2015) James L. Savage et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Antagonistic effect of helpers on breeding male and female survival in a cooperatively breeding bird

(2015) Matthieu Paquet et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

MCMC Methods for Multi-Response Generalized Linear Mixed Models: TheMCMCglmmRPackage

(2015) Jarrod D. Hadfield   Journal of Statistical Software

Behavioral ecology as big science: 25 years of asking the same questions

(2014) Andrew Cockburn   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Phenotypic plasticity in response to breeding density in tree swallows: An adaptive maternal effect?

(2013) Alexandra B. Bentz et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Great tits provided with ad libitum food lay larger eggs when exposed to colder temperatures

(2013) Sonja V. Schaper et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Climate, social factors and research disturbance influence population dynamics in a declining sociable weaver metapopulation

(2013) Res Altwegg et al.   OECOLOGIA

Maternal Effects in Relation to Helper Presence in the Cooperatively Breeding Sociable Weaver

(2013) Matthieu Paquet et al.   PLoS One

Temperatures in Excess of Critical Thresholds Threaten Nestling Growth and Survival in A Rapidly-Warming Arid Savanna: A Study of Common Fiscals

(2013) Susan J. Cunningham et al.   PLoS One

Quantifying individual variation in behaviour: mixed-effect modelling approaches

(2012) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Load Lightening in Southern Lapwings: Group-Living Mothers Lay Smaller Eggs than Pair-Living Mothers

(2011) Eduardo S. A. Santos et al.   ETHOLOGY

Helpers at the nest compensate for reduced maternal investment in egg size in carrion crows

(2011) D. CANESTRARI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Strategic female reproductive investment in response to male attractiveness in birds

(2011) T. Horvathova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Perceived Predation Risk Reduces the Number of Offspring Songbirds Produce per Year

(2011) L. Y. Zanette et al.   SCIENCE

Egg size and yolk steroids vary across the laying order in cockatiel clutches: A strategy for reinforcing brood hierarchies?

(2010) Corinne P. Kozlowski et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Differences in spawning date between populations of common frog reveal local adaptation

(2010) A. B. Phillimore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Helpers and egg investment in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker: testing the concealed helper effects hypothesis

(2009) Walter D. Koenig et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Females increase reproductive investment in response to helper-mediated improvements in allo-feeding, nest survival, nestling provisioning and post-fledging survival in the Karoo scrub-robinCercotrichas coryphaeus

(2009) Penn Lloyd et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Maternal effects in cooperative breeders: from hymenopterans to humans

(2009) A. F Russell et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Helpers in colonial cooperatively breeding sociable weavers Philetairus socius contribute to buffer the effects of adverse breeding conditions

(2008) Rita Covas et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Load-lightening in cooperatively breeding birds and the cost of reproduction

(2008) HUMPHREY Q.P. CRICK   IBIS

Can we measure the benefits of help in cooperatively breeding birds: the case of superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus?

(2008) Andrew Cockburn et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations

(2007) Andrew Gelman   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE