What is the best fitness measure in wild populations? A case study on the power of short-term fitness proxies to predict reproductive value

Ž Alif, J Dunning, HYJ Chik, T Burke, J Schroeder - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Fitness is at the core of evolutionary theory, but it is difficult to measure accurately. One way
to measure long-term fitness is by calculating the individual's reproductive value, which …

Indirect genetic effects increase heritability estimates for male and female extra-pair reproduction

S Dobson, J Dunning, T Burke, HYJ Chik… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The question of why females engage in extra-pair behaviors is long-standing in evolutionary
biology. One suggestion is that these behaviors are maintained through pleiotropic effects …

Comparison of manual, machine learning, and hybrid methods for video annotation to extract parental care data

AHH Chan, J Liu, T Burke, WD Pearse… - Journal of Avian …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Measuring parental care behaviour in the wild is central to the study of animal ecology and
evolution, but it is often labour‐and time‐intensive. Efficient open‐source tools have recently …

Not so social in old age: demography as one driver of decreasing sociality

J Schroeder, J Dunning, AHH Chan… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans become more selective with whom they spend their time, and as a result, the social
networks of older humans are smaller than those of younger ones. In non-human animals …

Male age and its association with reproductive traits in captive and wild house sparrows

A Girndt, G Cockburn, A Sánchez‐Tójar… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Evolutionary theory predicts that females seek extra‐pair fertilizations from high‐quality
males. In socially monogamous bird species, it is often old males that are most successful in …

House sparrows exhibit individual differences in generalization when confronted with different novel stimuli

AL McLaughlin, DF Westneat - Ethology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Generalization refers to the process by which animals assign different stimuli into cognitive
categories based on their similarity/dissimilarity to previously experienced stimuli. Stimuli …

Hidden in plain sight: migration routes of the elusive Anadyr bar‐tailed godwit revealed by satellite tracking

YC Chan, TL Tibbitts, D Dorofeev… - Journal of Avian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite and GPS tracking technology continues to reveal new migration patterns of birds
which enables comparative studies of migration strategies and distributional information …

Divorce is linked with extra‐pair paternity in a monogamous passerine

J Dunning, T Burke, J Schroeder - Journal of Avian Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The question of why socially monogamous females engage in extra‐pair behaviour is long‐
standing in evolutionary biology. Due to a lack of empirical support among passerine birds …

Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime

J Dunning, T Burke, A Hoi Hang Chan… - Behavioral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Animal sociality, an individual's propensity to associate with others, has fitness
consequences through mate choice, for example, directly, by increasing the pool of …

Estimating mortality rates among passerines caught for ringing with mist nets using data from previously ringed birds

GD Clewley, RA Robinson, JA Clark - Ecology and Evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mist netting is the most commonly used method for catching birds for scientific ringing, but
despite decades of use, there have been few attempts to quantify the associated potential …