Big brains stabilize populations and facilitate colonization of variable habitats in birds

Estimating breeding bird survey trends and annual indices for Canada: how do the new hierarchical Bayesian estimates differ from previous estimates?

(2017) Adam C. Smith et al.  

Survival is linked with reaction time and spatial memory in African striped mice

(2016) Audrey Maille et al.   Biology Letters

Light enough to travel or wise enough to stay? Brain size evolution and migratory behavior in birds

(2016) Orsolya Vincze   EVOLUTION

Brain size predicts problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores

(2016) Sarah Benson-Amram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds

(2016) Ferran Sayol et al.   Nature Communications

Genetic connectivity across marginal habitats: the elephants of the Namib Desert

(2016) Yasuko Ishida et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Problem-solving ability and response to novelty in mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli) from different elevations

(2015) Dovid Y. Kozlovsky et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles

(2015) Nathan P. Myhrvold et al.   ECOLOGY

Different axes of environmental variation explain the presence vs. extent of cooperative nest founding associations inPolistespaper wasps

(2015) Michael J Sheehan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A larger brain confers a benefit in a spatial mate search learning task in male guppies

(2014) A. Kotrschal et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The Unsolved Challenge to Phylogenetic Correlation Tests for Categorical Characters

(2014) Wayne P. Maddison et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain

(2013) Alexander Kotrschal et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Brains, innovations, tools and cultural transmission in birds, non-human primates, and fossil hominins

(2013) Louis Lefebvre   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Environmental harshness is positively correlated with intraspecific divergence in mammals and birds

(2013) Carlos A. Botero et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Unraveling the Life History of Successful Invaders

(2012) D. Sol et al.   SCIENCE

Analysis of the North American Breeding Bird Survey Using Hierarchical Models

(2011) John R. Sauer et al.   AUK

Brains and the city: big-brained passerine birds succeed in urban environments

(2011) A. A. Maklakov et al.   Biology Letters

Smart Moves: Effects of Relative Brain Size on Establishment Success of Invasive Amphibians and Reptiles

(2011) Joshua J. Amiel et al.   PLoS One

Maternal investment, life histories, and the costs of brain growth in mammals

(2011) R. A. Barton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Variation in memory and the hippocampus across populations from different climates: a common garden approach

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

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

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

Environmental Uncertainty and the Global Biogeography of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

(2010) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Relative brain size and ecology in birds

(2010) P. M. Bennett et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Repeated loss of coloniality and symbiosis in scleractinian corals

(2010) M. S. Barbeitos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Brain Size Predicts the Success of Mammal Species Introduced into Novel Environments

(2008) Daniel Sol et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Brains, Lifestyles and Cognition: Are There General Trends?

(2008) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Distribution of specialist and generalist species along spatial gradients of habitat disturbance and fragmentation

(2008) Vincent Devictor et al.   OIKOS