Publications of the Department Ornithology

Beck, K. B.; Loretto, M.-C.; Ringler, M.; Hödl, W.; Pasukonis, A.: Relying on known or exploring for new? Movement patterns and reproductive resource use in a tadpole-transporting frog. PeerJ 5, e3745 (2017)

Botero‐Delgadillo, E.; Quirici, V.; Poblete, Y.; Cuevas, É.; Kuhn, S.; Girg, A.; Teltscher, K. L.; Poulin, E.; Kempenaers, B.; Vásquez, R. A.: Variation in fine-scale genetic structure and local dispersal patterns between peripheral populations of a South American passerine bird. Ecology and Evolution 7 (20), pp. 8363 - 8378 (2017)

Bulla, M.; Oudman, T.; Bijleveld, A. I.; Piersma, T.; Kyriacou, C. P.: Marine biorhythms: Bridging chronobiology and ecology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 372 (1734), 20160253 (2017)

Bulla, M.; Prüter, H.; Vitnerova, H.; Tijsen, W.; Sládeček, M.; Alves, J. A.; Gilg, O.; Kempenaers, B.: Flexible parental care: Uniparental incubation in biparentally incubating shorebirds. Scientific Reports 7, 12851 (2017)

Da Silva, A.; de Jong, M.; van Grunsven, R. H. A.; Visser, M. E.; Kempenaers, B.; Spoelstra, K.: Experimental illumination of a forest: No effects of lights of different colours on the onset of the dawn chorus in songbirds. Royal Society Open Science 4 (1), 160638 (2017)

Da Silva, A.; Diez-Méndez, D.; Kempenaers, B.: Effects of experimental night lighting on the daily timing of winter foraging in common European songbirds. Journal of Avian Biology 48 (6), pp. 862 - 871 (2017)

Da Silva, A.; Kempenaers, B.: Singing from North to South: Latitudinal variation in timing of dawn singing under natural and artificial light conditions. Journal of Animal Ecology 86 (6), pp. 1286 - 1297 (2017)

Dominoni, D.; Akesson, S.; Klaassen, R.; Spoelstra, K.; Bulla, M.: Methods in field chronobiology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 372 (1734), 20160247 (2017)

Forstmeier, W.: Preregister now for an upgrade to Behavioral Ecology 2.0: A comment on Ihle et al. Behavioral Ecology 28 (2), pp. 358 - 359 (2017)

Forstmeier, W.; Ihle, M.; Opatová, P.; Martin, K.; Knief, U.; Albrechtová, J.; Albrecht, T.; Kempenaers, B.: Testing the phenotype-linked fertility hypothesis in the presence and absence of inbreeding. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30 (5), pp. 968 - 976 (2017)

Forstmeier, W.; Wagenmakers, E.-J.; Parker, T. H.: Detecting and avoiding likely false-positive findings - A practical guide. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 92 (4), pp. 1941 - 1968 (2017)

Gilsenan, C.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Difference in arrival date at the breeding site between former pair members predicts divorce in blue tits. Animal Behaviour 133, pp. 57 - 72 (2017)

Griffith, S. C.; Crino, O. L.; Andrew, S. C.; Nomano, F. Y.; Adkins-Regan, E.; Alonso-Alvarez, C.; Bailey, I. E.; Bittner, S. S.; Bolton, P. E.; Boner, W. et al.; Boogert, N.; Boucaud, I. C. A.; Briga, M.; Buchanan, K. L.; Caspers, B. A.; Cichon, M.; Clayton, D. F.; Deregnaucourt, S.; Forstmeier, W.; Guillette, L. M.; Hartley, I. R.; Healy, S. D.; Hill, D. L.; Holveck, M.-J.; Hurley, L. L.; Ihle, M.; Krause, E. T.; Mainwaring, M. C.; Marasco, V.; Mariette, M. M.; Martin-Wintle, M. S.; McCowan, L. S. C.; McMahon, M.; Monaghan, P.; Nager, R. G.; Naguib, M.; Nord, A.; Potvin, D. A.; Prior, N. H.; Riebel, K.; Romero-Haro, A. A.; Royle, N. J.; Rutkowska, J.; Schuett, W.; Swaddle, J. P.; Tobler, M.; Trompf, L.; Varian-Ramos, C. W.; Vignal, C.; Villain, A. S.; Williams, T. D.: Variation in reproductive success across captive populations: Methodological differences, potential biases and opportunities. Ethology 123 (1), pp. 1 - 29 (2017)

Kappers, E. F.; Chakarov, N.; Krüger, O.; Mueller, A. K.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.; Both, C.: Classification and temporal stability of plumage variation in Common Buzzards. Ardea 105 (2), pp. 125 - 136 (2017)

Kempenaers, B.; Valcu, M.: Breeding site sampling across the Arctic by individual males of a polygynous shorebird. Nature 541 (7638), pp. 528 - 531 (2017)

Knief, U.; Forstmeier, W.; Pei, Y.; Ihle, M.; Wang, D.; Martin, K.; Opatová, P.; Albrechtová, J.; Wittig, M.; Franke, A. et al.; Albrecht, T.; Kempenaers, B.: A sex-chromosome inversion causes strong overdominance for sperm traits that affect siring success. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (8), pp. 1177 - 1184 (2017)

Knief, U.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Meiotic recombination shapes precision of pedigree- and marker-based estimates of inbreeding. Heredity 118 (3), pp. 239 - 248 (2017)

Knief, U.; Schielzeth, H.; Backström, N.; Hemmrich-Stanisak, G.; Wittig, M.; Franke, A.; Griffith, S. C.; Ellegren, H.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Association mapping of morphological traits in wild and captive zebra finches: Reliable within, but not between populations. Molecular Ecology 26 (5), pp. 1285 - 1305 (2017)

Lawson, L. P.; Fessl, B.; Vargas, F. H.; Farrington, H. L.; Cunninghame, H. F.; Mueller, J. C.; Nemeth, E.; Sevilla, P. C.; Petren, K.: Slow motion extinction: Inbreeding, introgression, and loss in the critically endangered mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates). Conservation Genetics 18 (1), pp. 159 - 170 (2017)

Mathot, K. J.; Olsen, A.-L.; Mutzel, A.; Araya-Ajoy, Y. G.; Nicolaus, M.; Westneat, D. F.; Wright, J.; Kempenaers, B.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Provisioning tactics of great tits (Parus major) in response to long-term brood size manipulations differ across years. Behavioral Ecology 28 (6), pp. 1402 - 1413 (2017)

Mueller, J. C.; Edelaar, P.; Baños-Villalba, A.; Carrete, M.; Potti, J.; Blas, J.; Tella, J. L.; Kempenaers, B.: Selection on a behaviour-related gene during the first stages of the biological invasion pathway. Molecular Ecology 26 (21), pp. 6110 - 6121 (2017)

Pašukonis, A.; Beck, K. B.; Fischer, M.-T.; Weinlein, S.; Stückler, S.; Ringler, E.: Induced parental care in a poison frog: A tadpole cross-fostering experiment. The Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (21), pp. 3949 - 3954 (2017)

Rattenborg, N. C.; de la Iglesia, H. O.; Kempenaers, B.; Lesku, J. A.; Meerlo, P.; Scriba, M. F.: Sleep research goes wild: New methods and approaches to investigate the ecology, evolution and functions of sleep. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 372 (1734), 20160251 (2017)

Santema, P.; Schlicht, E.; Schlicht, L.; Kempenaers, B.: Blue tits do not return faster to the nest in response to either short- or long-term begging playbacks. Animal Behaviour 123, pp. 117 - 127 (2017)

Scriba, M. F.; Dreiss, A. N.; Henry, I.; Béziers, P.; Ruppli, C.; Ifrid, E.; Ducouret, P.; Da Silva, A.; Monstiers, B. d.; Vyssotski, A. L. et al.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Roulin, A.: Nocturnal, diurnal and bimodal patterns of locomotion, sibling interactions and sleep in nestling Barn Owls. Journal of Ornithology 158 (4), pp. 1001 - 1012 (2017)

Scriba, M. F.; Henry, I.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Mueller, J. C.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Roulin, A.: Ultradian rhythmicity in sleep-wakefulness is related to color in nestling barn owls. Journal of Biological Rhythms 32 (5), pp. 456 - 468 (2017)

Stuber, E. F.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Mueller, J. C.: Temperature affects frequency but not rhythmicity of nocturnal awakenings in free-living great tits, Parus major. Animal Behaviour 128, pp. 135 - 141 (2017)

van de Crommenacker, J.; Hammers, M.; van der Woude, J.; Louter, M.; Santema, P.; Richardson, D. S.; Komdeur, J.: Oxidative status and fitness components in the Seychelles warbler. Functional Ecology 31 (6), pp. 1210 - 1219 (2017)

van Schaik, J.; Kerth, G.: Host social organization and mating system shape parasite transmission opportunities in three European bat species. Parasitology Research 116 (2), pp. 589 - 599 (2017)

Wang, D.; Forstmeier, W.; Kempenaers, B.: No mutual mate choice for quality in zebra finches: Time to question a widely-held assumption. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 71 (11), pp. 2661 - 2676 (2017)

Wang, D.; Kempenaers, N.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Male zebra finches have limited ability to identify high-fecundity females. Behavioral Ecology 28 (3), pp. 784 - 792 (2017)

Wang, D.; Xia, C.; Liu, Y.; Sun, Y.: The theory of quantitative genetics into evolutionary ecological studies: The applications of animal model. Chinese Journal of Zoology 52 (4), pp. 690 - 701 (2017)