Books

Papers

Stonehouse, J. C., Spurgin, L. G., Laine, V. N., & Sheldon, B. C. (2023). The genomics of adaptation to climate in European great tit (Parus major) populations. Evolution Letters, qrad043.

Beck, K. B., Farine, D. R., Firth, J. A., & Sheldon, B. C. (2023). Variation in local population size predicts social network structure in wild songbirds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92: 2348-2362.

Regan, C. E., & Sheldon, B. C. (2023). Phenotypic plasticity increases exposure to extreme climatic events that reduce individual fitness. Global Change Biology, 29: 2968-2980.

Gokcekus, S., Firth, J. A., Regan, C., Cole, E. F., Sheldon, B. C., & Albery, G. F. (2023). Social familiarity and spatially variable environments independently determine reproductive fitness in a wild bird. The American Naturalist, 201: 813-824.

Maziarz, M., Broughton, R. K., Beck, K. B., Robinson, R. A., & Sheldon, B. C. (2023). Temporal avoidance as a means of reducing competition between sympatric species. Royal Society Open Science, 10: 230521.

Woodman, J. P., Cole, E. F., Firth, J. A., Perrins, C. M., & Sheldon, B. C. (2023). Disentangling the causes of age‐assortative mating in bird populations with contrasting life‐history strategies. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92: 979-990.

Vriend, S. J., Grøtan, V., Gamelon, M., Adriaensen, F., Ahola, M. P., Álvarez, E., ... & Sæther, B. E. (2023). Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines. Ecology, 104: e3908.

Recalde, N. M., Estandía, A., Keen, S. C., Cole, E. F., & Sheldon, B. C. (2023). The demographic drivers of cultural evolution in bird song: a multilevel study. bioRxiv, 2023-11.

Recalde, N. M, Estandia, A., Pichot, L., Vansse, A., Cole, E. F., & Sheldon, B. C. (2023). A densely sampled and richly annotated acoustic dataset from a wild bird population. bioRxiv, 2023-07.

Beck, K. B., Sheldon, B. C., & Firth, J. A. (2023). Social learning mechanisms shape transmission pathways through replicate local social networks of wild birds. Elife, 12: e85703.

Regan, C. E., Beck, K. B., McMahon, K., Crofts, S., Firth, J. A., & Sheldon, B. C. (2022). Social phenotype-dependent selection of social environment in wild great and blue tits: an experimental study. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289: 20221602.

Bonnet, T., Morrissey, M. B., de Villemereuil, P., Alberts, S. C., Arcese, P., Bailey, L. D., ... & Kruuk, L. E. (2022). Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals. Science, 376: 1012-1016.

Bailey, L. D., van de Pol, M., Adriaensen, F., Arct, A., Barba, E., Bellamy, P. E., ... & Visser, M. E. (2022). Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation. Nature Communications, 13: 2112.

Wild, S., Chimento, M., McMahon, K., Farine, D. R., Sheldon, B. C., & L. M. Aplin (2022) Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377: 20200307.

Gokcekus, S., Firth, J. A., Regan, C., Cole, E. F., Lamers, K. P., & B. C. Sheldon (2021) Drivers of passive leadership in wild songbirds: species-level differences and spatio-temporally dependent intraspecific effects. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75: 1-13.

Cole, E. F., Regan, C. E., & B. C. Sheldon (2021) Spatial variation in avian phenological response to climate change linked to tree health. Nature Climate Change, 11: 872-878.

Culina, A., Adriaensen, F., Bailey, L. D., Burgess, M. D., Charmantier, A., Cole, E. F., ... & M. E. Visser (2021) Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: the SPI‐Birds data hub. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90: 2147-2160.

De Villemereuil, P., Charmantier, A., Arlt, D., Bize, P., Brekke, P., Brouwer, L., ... & L. M. Chevin (2020). Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117: 31969-31978.

Simmonds, E. G., Cole, E. F., Sheldon, B. C., & T. Coulson (2020). Phenological asynchrony: a ticking time‐bomb for seemingly stable populations?. Ecology Letters, 23: 1766-1775.

Hillemann, F., Cole, E. F., Sheldon, B. C. and D. R. Farine (2020). Information use in foraging flocks of songbirds: no evidence for social transmission of patch quality. Animal Behaviour 165: 35-41.

Evans, S.R., Postma, E. and B. C. Sheldon (2020). It takes two: Heritable male effects on reproductive timing but not clutch size in a wild bird population. Evolution: doi:10.1111/evo.13980.

Keen, S. C., Cole, E. F., Sheehan, M. J. and B. C. Sheldon (2020). Social learning of acoustic anti-predator cues occurs between wild bird species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20192513.

Simmonds, E. G., Cole, E. F., Sheldon, B. C. and T. Coulson (2020). Testing the effect of quantitative genetic inheritance in structured models on projections of population dynamics. Oikos 129: 559-571.

Roth, A. M., Firth, J. A., Patrick, S. C., Cole, E. F. and B. C. Sheldon (2019). Partner’s age, not social environment, predicts extrapair paternity in wild great tits (Parus major). Behavioral Ecology 30: 1782-1793.

Hillemann, F., Cole, E. F., Keen, S. C., Sheldon, B. C. and D. R. Farine (2019). Diurnal variation in the production of vocal information about food supports a model of social adjustment in wild songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20182740.

Gamelon, M., Vriend, S. J., Engen, S., Adriaensen, F., Dhondt, A. A., Evans, S. R., ... and B. E. Sæther (2019). Accounting for interspecific competition and age structure in demographic analyses of density dependence improves predictions of fluctuations in population size. Ecology Letters 22: 797-806.

Simmonds, E. G., Cole, E. F. and B. C. Sheldon (2019). Cue identification in phenology: a case study of the predictive performance of current statistical tools. Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 1428-1440.

Hillemann, F., Cole, E. F., Sheldon, B. C. and D. R. Farine (2019). Wild songbirds exhibit consistent individual differences in inter-specific social behaviour. bioRxiv, 746545

Spurgin, L. G., Bosse, M., Adriaensen, F., Albayrak, T., Barboutis, C., Belda, E., ... and N. J. Dingemanse (2019). The great tit HapMap project: a continental-scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird. bioRxiv, 561399.

Farine, D. R. and B. C. Sheldon (2019). Stable multi-level social structure is maintained by habitat geometry in a wild bird population. bioRxiv, 085944.

Somveille, M., Firth, J. A., Aplin, L. M., Farine, D. R., Sheldon, B. C. and R. N. Thompson (2018). Movement and conformity interact to establish local behavioural traditions in animal populations. PLoS Computational Biology 14: e1006647.

Firth, J. A., Cole, E. F., Ioannou, C. C., Quinn, J. L., Aplin, L. M., Culina, A., ... and B. C. Sheldon (2018). Personality shapes pair bonding in a wild bird social system. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1696.

Firth, J. A., Verhelst, B. L., Crates, R. A., Garroway, C. J., and B. C. Sheldon (2018). Spatial, temporal and individual‐based differences in nest‐site visits and subsequent reproductive success in wild great tits. Journal of Avian Biology 49: e01740.

Kim, J. M., Santure, A. W., Barton, H. J., Quinn, J. L., Cole, E. F., Great Tit HapMap Consortium, ... & Slate, J. (2018). A high‐density SNP chip for genotyping great tit (Parus major) populations and its application to studying the genetic architecture of exploration behaviour. Molecular Ecology Resources, 18: 877-891. 

Burgess, M. D., Smith, K. W., Evans, K. L., Leech, D., Pearce-Higgins, J. W., Branston, C. J., ... and R. G. Nager (2018). Tritrophic phenological match–mismatch in space and time. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 970.

Simmonds, E. G., Sheldon, B. C. , Coulson, T. and E. F. Cole (2018). Experimental manipulation of nocturnal nest cavity temperature in wild blue tits. bioRxiv, 279455.

Firth, J. A., Sheldon, B. C. and L. J. N Brent (2017). Indirectly connected: simple social differences can explain the causes and apparent consequences of complex social network positions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: 1867.

Simmonds, E. G., Sheldon, B. C., Coulson, T. and E. F. Cole (2017). Incubation behaviour adjustments, driven by ambient temperature variation, improve synchrony between hatch dates and caterpillar peak in a wild bird population. Ecology and Evolution 7: 9415-9425.

Bosse, M., Spurgin, L. G., Laine, V. N., Cole, E. F., Firth, J. A., Gienapp, P., Gosler, A. G., … and J. Slate (2017). Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait. Science 358: 6361.

Radersma, R., Garroway, C. J., Santure, A. W., De Cauwer, I., Farine, D. R., Slate, J. and B. C. Sheldon (2017). Social and spatial effects on genetic variation between foraging flocks in a wild bird population. Molecular Ecology 26: 5807-5819.

Aplin, L. M., Sheldon, B. C. and R. McElreath (2017). Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114: 7830-7837.

Milligan, N. D., Radersma, R., Cole, E. F. and B. C. Sheldon (2017). To graze or gorge: consistency and flexibility of individual foraging tactics in tits. Journal of Animal Ecology 86: 826-836.

Johnson, K. V. A., Aplin, L. M., Cole, E. F., Farine, D. R., Firth, J. A., Patrick, S. C. and B.C. Sheldon (2017). Male great tits assort by personality during the breeding season. Animal Behaviour 128: 21-32.

Firth, J. A., Voelkl, B., Crates, R. A., Aplin, L. M., Biro, D., Croft, D. P. and B. C. Sheldon (2017). Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: 1854.

Cole, E. F. and Sheldon, B. C. (2017). The shifting phenological landscape: Within‐and between‐species variation in leaf emergence in a mixed‐deciduous woodland. Ecology and Evolution 7: 1135-1147.

Firth, J. A. and Sheldon, B. C. (2016). Social carry‐over effects underpin trans‐seasonally linked structure in a wild bird population. Ecology Letters 19: 1324-1332.

Poissant, J., Morrissey, M. B., Gosler, A. G., Slate, J. and Sheldon, B. C (2016). Multivariate selection and intersexual genetic constraints in a wild bird population. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29: 2022-2035.

Voelkl, B., Firth, J. A. and Sheldon, B. C (2016). Nonlethal predator effects on the turn-over of wild bird flocks. Scientific Reports 6: 33476.

Firth, J. A., B. C. Sheldon, D. R. Farine (2016). Pathways of information transmission among wild songbirds follow experimentally imposed changes in social foraging structure. Biology Letters. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0144.

Crates, R. A., J. A. Firth, D. R. Farine, C. J. Garroway, L. R. Kidd, L. M. Aplin, R. Radersma, N. D. Milligan, B. Voelkl, A. Culina, B. L. Verhelst, C. A. Hinde and B. C. Sheldon (2016). Individual variation in winter supplementary food consumption and its consequences for survival and reproduction in wild birds. Journal of Avian Biology 5: 678-689.

Grabowska-Zhang, A. M., C. A. Hinde, C. J. Garroway and B. C. Sheldon (2016). Wherever I may roam: social viscosity and kin affiliation in a wild population despite natal dispersal. Behavioral Ecology: arw042.

Quinn, J. L., E. F. Cole, T. E. Reed and J. Morand-Ferron (2016). Environmental and genetic determinants of innovativeness in a natural population of birds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371: 20150184.

Childs, D. Z., B. C. Sheldon and M. Rees (2016). The evolution of labile traits in sex- and age-structured populations. Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 329-342.

Laine, V. N., T. I. Gossmann, K. M. Schachtschneider, C. J. Garroway, O. Madsen, K. J. F. Verhoeven, V. de Jager, H. J. Megens, W. C. Warren, P. Minx, R. P. M. A. Crooijmans, P. Corcoran, B. C. Sheldon, J. Slate, K. Zeng, K. van Oers, M. E. Visser and M. A. M. Groenen (2016). Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome. Nature Communications 7: 10474.

Aplin, L. M., D. R. Farine, J. Morand-Ferron, A. Cockburn, A. Thornton and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds. Nature 518: 538-541.

Aplin, L. M., D. R. Farine, J. Morand-Ferron, A. Cockburn, A. Thornton and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Counting conformity: evaluating the units of information in frequency-dependent social learning. Animal Behaviour 110: E5-E8.

Aplin, L. M., J. A. Firth, D. R. Farine, B. Voelkl, R. A. Crates, A. Culina, C. J. Garroway, C. A. Hinde, L. R. Kidd, I. Psorakis, N. D. Milligan, R. Radersma, B. L. Verhelst and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Consistent individual differences in the social phenotypes of wild great tits, Parus major. Animal Behaviour 108: 117-127.

Bouwhuis, S., O. Vedder, C. J. Garroway and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Ecological causes of multilevel covariance between size and first-year survival in a wild bird population. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 208-218.

Cole, E. F., P. R. Long, P. Zelazowski, M. Szulkin and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Predicting bird phenology from space: satellite-derived vegetation green-up signal uncovers spatial variation in phenological synchrony between birds and their environment. Ecology and Evolution 5: 5057-5074.

Crates, R. A., B. Sheldon and C. J. Garroway (2015). Causes and consequences of individual variation in the extent of post-juvenile moult in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus (Passeriformes: Paridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 116: 341-351.

Culina, A., C. A. Hinde and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Carry-over effects of the social environment on future divorce probability in a wild bird population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282: 20150920.

Culina, A., S. Lachish and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Evidence of a link between survival and pair fidelity across multiple tit populations. Journal of Avian Biology 46: 507-515.

Culina, A., R. Radersma and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Trading up: the fitness consequences of divorce in monogamous birds. Biological Reviews 90: 1015-1034.

Farine, D. R., L. M. Aplin, B. C. Sheldon and W. Hoppitt (2015). Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282: 20142804.

Farine, D. R., J. A. Firth, L. M. Aplin, R. A. Crates, A. Culina, C. J. Garroway, C. A. Hinde, L. R. Kidd, N. D. Milligan, I. Psorakis, R. Radersma, B. L. Verhelst, B. Voelkl and B. C. Sheldon (2015). The role of social and ecological processes in structuring animal populations: a case study from automated tracking of wild birds. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150057.

Farine, D. R. and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Selection for territory acquisition is modulated by social network structure in a wild songbird. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 547-556.

Firth, J. A., J. D. Hadfield, A. W. Santure, J. Slate and B. C. Sheldon (2015). The influence of nonrandom extra-pair paternity on heritability estimates derived from wild pedigrees. Evolution 69: 1336-1344.

Firth, J. A. and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Experimental manipulation of avian social structure reveals segregation is carried over across contexts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282: 20142350.

Firth, J. A., B. Voelkl, D. R. Farine and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Experimental evidence that social relationships determine individual foraging behavior. Current Biology 25: 3138-3143.

Hinks, A. E., E. F. Cole, K. J. Daniels, T. A. Wilkin, S. Nakagawa and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Scale-dependent phenological synchrony between songbirds and their caterpillar food source. American Naturalist 186: 84-97.

Kidd, L. R., B. C. Sheldon, E. G. Simmonds and E. F. Cole (2015). Who escapes detection? Quantifying the causes and consequences of sampling biases in a long-term field study. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 1520-1529.

Lemoine, M., K. Lucek, C. Perrier, V. Saladin, F. Adriaensen, E. Barba, E. J. Belda, A. Charmantier, M. Cichoń, T. Eeva, A. Grégoire, C. A. Hinde, A. Johnsen, J. Komdeur, R. Mänd, E. Matthysen, A. C. Norte, N. Pitala, B. C. Sheldon, T. Slagsvold, J. M. Tinbergen, J. Török, R. Ubels, K. van Oers, M. E. Visser, B. Doligez and H. Richner (2015). Low but contrasting neutral genetic differentiation shaped by winter temperature in European great tits. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: In press.

Morand-Ferron, J., S. Hamblin, E. F. Cole, L. M. Aplin and J. L. Quinn (2015). Taking the operant paradigm into the field: associative learning in wild great tits. PLoS ONE 10: e0133821.

Psorakis, I., B. Voelkl, C. J. Garroway, R. Radersma, L. M. Aplin, R. A. Crates, A. Culina, D. R. Farine, J. A. Firth, C. A. Hinde, L. R. Kidd, N. D. Milligan, S. J. Roberts, B. Verhelst and B. C. Sheldon (2015). Inferring social structure from temporal data. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69: 857-866.

Santure, A. W., J. Poissant, I. De Cauwer, K. van Oers, M. R. Robinson, J. L. Quinn, M. A. M. Groenen, M. E. Visser, B. C. Sheldon and J. Slate (2015). Replicated analysis of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits in two wild great tit populations. Molecular Ecology 24: 6148-6162.

Sepil, I., R. Radersma, A. W. Santure, I. De Cauwer, J. Slate and B. C. Sheldon (2015). No evidence for MHC class I-based disassortative mating in a wild population of great tits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 642-654.

Aplin, L. M., D. R. Farine, R. P. Mann and B. C. Sheldon (2014). Individual-level personality influences social foraging and collective behaviour in wild birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281: 20141016.

Bouwhuis, S., J. L. Quinn, B. C. Sheldon and S. Verhulst (2014). Personality and basal metabolic rate in a wild bird population. Oikos 123: 56-62.

Cole, E. F. and J. L. Quinn (2014). Shy birds play it safe: personality in captivity predicts risk responsiveness during reproduction in the wild. Biology Letters 10: 20140178.

Farine, D. R., L. M. Aplin, C. J. Garroway, R. P. Mann and B. C. Sheldon (2014). Collective decision making and social interaction rules in mixed-species flocks of songbirds. Animal Behaviour 95: 173-182.

Fayet, A. L., Tobias, J. A., Hintzen, R. E. and N. Seddon (2014). Immigration and dispersal are key determinants of cultural diversity in a songbird population. Behavioral Ecology, 25: 744-753.

Gossmann, T. I., A. W. Santure, B. C. Sheldon, J. Slate and K. Zeng (2014). Highly variable recombinational landscape modulates efficacy of natural selection in birds. Genome Biology and Evolution 6: 2061-2075.

Knowles, S. C. L., M. J. Wood, R. Alves and B. C. Sheldon (2014). Dispersal in a patchy landscape reveals contrasting determinants of infection in a wild avian malaria system. Journal of Animal Ecology 83: 429-439.

Van Oers, K., A. W. Santure, I. De Cauwer, N. E. M. van Bers, R. P. M. A. Crooijmans, B. C. Sheldon, M. E. Visser, J. Slate and M. A. M. Groenen (2014). Replicated high-density genetic maps of two great tit populations reveal fine-scale genomic departures from sex-equal recombination rates. Heredity 112: 307-316.

Vedder, O., S. Bouwhuis and B. C. Sheldon (2014). The contribution of an avian top predator to selection in prey species. Journal of Animal Ecology 83: 99-106.

Aplin, L. M., D. R. Farine, J. Morand-Ferron, E. F. Cole, A. Cockburn and B. C. Sheldon (2013). Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major). Ecology Letters 16: 1365-1372.

Aplin, L. M., B. C. Sheldon and J. Morand-Ferron (2013). Milk bottles revisited: social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus. Animal Behaviour 85: 1225-1232.

Culina, A., S. Lachish, R. Pradel, R. Choquet and B. C. Sheldon (2013). A multievent approach to estimating pair fidelity and heterogeneity in state transitions. Ecology and Evolution 3: 4326-4338.

Farine, D. R. and S. D. J. Lang (2013). The early bird gets the worm: foraging strategies of wild songbirds lead to the early discovery of food sources. Biology Letters 9: 20130578.

Garroway, C. J., R. Radersma, I. Sepil, A. W. Santure, I. De Cauwer, J. Slate and B. C. Sheldon (2013). Fine-scale genetic structure in a wild bird population: the role of limited dispersal and environmentally based selection as causal factors. Evolution 67: 3488-3500.

Isaksson, C., I. Sepil, V. Baramidze and B. Sheldon (2013). Explaining variance of avian malaria infection in the wild: the importance of host density, habitat, individual life-history and oxidative stress. Bmc Ecology 13: 1-11.

Lachish, S., S. C. L. Knowles, R. Alves, I. Sepil, A. Davies, S. Lee, M. J. Wood and B. C. Sheldon (2013). Spatial determinants of infection risk in a multi-species avian malaria system. Ecography 36: 587-598.

Robinson, M. R., A. W. Santure, I. DeCauwer, B. C. Sheldon and J. Slate (2013). Partitioning of genetic variation across the genome using multimarker methods in a wild bird population. Molecular Ecology 22: 3963-3980.

Santure, A. W., I. De Cauwer, M. R. Robinson, J. Poissant, B. C. Sheldon and J. Slate (2013). Genomic dissection of variation in clutch size and egg mass in a wild great tit (Parus major) population. Molecular Ecology 22: 3949-3962.

Sepil, I., S. Lachish, A. E. Hinks and B. C. Sheldon (2013). Mhc supertypes confer both qualitative and quantitative resistance to avian malaria infections in a wild bird population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280: 20130134.

Sepil, I., S. Lachish and B. C. Sheldon (2013). Mhc-linked survival and lifetime reproductive success in a wild population of great tits. Molecular Ecology 22: 384-396.

Vedder, O., S. Bouwhuis and B. C. Sheldon (2013). Quantitative assessment of the importance of penotypic plasticity in adaptation to climate change in wild bird populations. PLoS Biology 11: e1001605.

Aplin, L. M., D. R. Farine, J. Morand-Ferron and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 4199-4205.

Bouwhuis, S., R. Choquet, B. C. Sheldon and S. Verhulst (2012). The forms and fitness cost of senescence: age-specific recapture, survival, reproduction, and reproductive value in a wild bird population. American Naturalist 179: E15-E27.

Cole, E. F., J. Morand-Ferron, A. E. Hinks and J. L. Quinn (2012). Cognitive ability influences reproductive life history variation in the wild. Current Biology 22: 1808-1812.

Cole, E. F. and J. L. Quinn (2012). Personality and problem-solving performance explain competitive ability in the wild. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 1168-1175.

Farine, D. R., C. J. Garroway and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Social network analysis of mixed-species flocks: exploring the structure and evolution of interspecific social behaviour. Animal Behaviour 84: 1271-1277.

Grabowska-Zhang, A. M., B. C. Sheldon and C. A. Hinde (2012). Long-term familiarity promotes joining in neighbour nest defence. Biology Letters 8: 544-546.

Grabowska-Zhang, A. M., T. A. Wilkin and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Effects of neighbor familiarity on reproductive success in the great tit (Parus major). Behavioral Ecology 23: 322-333.

Lachish, S., M. B. Bonsall, B. Lawson, A. A. Cunningham and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Individual and population-level impacts of an emerging poxvirus disease in a wild population of great tits. PLoS ONE 7: e48545.

Lachish, S., A. M. Gopalaswamy, S. C. L. Knowles and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Site-occupancy modelling as a novel framework for assessing test sensitivity and estimating wildlife disease prevalence from imperfect diagnostic tests. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3: 339-348.

Lachish, S., B. Lawson, A. A. Cunningham and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Epidemiology of the emergent disease Paridae pox in an intensively studied wild bird population. PLoS ONE 7: e38316.

Lawson, B., S. Lachish, K. M. Colvile, C. Durrant, K. M. Peck, M. P. Toms, B. C. Sheldon and A. A. Cunningham (2012). Emergence of a novel avian pox disease in British tit species. PLoS ONE 7: e40176.

Liedvogel, M., C. K. Cornwallis and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Integrating candidate gene and quantitative genetic approaches to understand variation in timing of breeding in wild tit populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 813-823.

Patrick, S. C., J. R. Chapman, H. L. Dugdale, J. L. Quinn and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Promiscuity, paternity and personality in the great tit. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 1724-1730.

Psorakis, I., S. J. Roberts, I. Rezek and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Inferring social network structure in ecological systems from spatio-temporal data streams. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 9: 3055-3066.

Quinn, J. L., E. F. Cole, J. Bates, R. W. Payne and W. Cresswell (2012). Personality predicts individual responsiveness to the risks of starvation and predation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 1919-1926.

Sepil, I., H. K. Moghadam, E. Huchard and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Characterization and 454 pyrosequencing of Major Histocompatibility Complex class I genes in the great tit reveal complexity in a passerine system. Bmc Evolutionary Biology 12: 1-19.

Szulkin, M., J. R. Chapman, S. C. Patrick and B. C. Sheldon (2012). Promiscuity, inbreeding and dispersal propensity in great tits. Animal Behaviour 84: 1363-1370.

Van Bers, N. E. M., A. W. Santure, K. van Oers, I. De Cauwer, B. W. Dibbits, C. Mateman, R. P. M. A. Crooijmans, B. C. Sheldon, M. E. Visser, M. A. M. Groenen and J. Slate (2012). The design and cross-population application of a genome-wide SNP chip for the great tit Parus major. Molecular Ecology Resources 12: 753-770.

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Clayton, N. S. and J. R. Krebs (1993). Lateralization in Paridae: comparison of a storing and a non-storing species on a one-trial associative memory task. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 171: 807-815.

Haywood, S. (1993). Role of extrinsic factors in the control of clutch‐size in the blue tit Parus caeruleus. Ibis 135: 79-84.

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Montagnese, C. M., J. R. Krebs, A. D. Szekely and A. Csillag (1993). A subpopulation of large calbindin-like immunopositive neurones is present in the hippocampal formation in food-storing but not in non-storing species of bird. Brain Research 614: 291-300.

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Clayton, N. S. (1992). The ontogeny of food-storing and retrieval in marsh tits. Behaviour 122: 11-25.

Haywood, S. and C. M. Perrins (1992). Is clutch size in birds affected by environmental conditions during growth? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 249: 195-197.

Healy, S. D. and J. R. Krebs (1992). Comparing spatial memory in two species of tit: recalling a single positive location. Animal Learning & Behavior 20: 121-126.

Healy, S. D. and J. R. Krebs (1992). Delayed-matching-to-sample by marsh tits and great tits. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 45b: 33-47.

Weary, D. M. and J. R. Krebs (1992). Great tits classify songs by individual voice characteristics. Animal Behaviour 43: 283-287.

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Perrins, C. M. (1991). Tits and their caterpillar food supply. Ibis 133: 49-54.

Weary, D. M. (1991). How great tits use song-note and whole-song features to categorize their songs. Auk 108: 187-190.

Weary, D. M., M. M. Lambrechts and J. R. Krebs (1991). Does singing exhaust male great tits? Animal Behaviour 41: 540-542.

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Hilton, S. C. and J. K. Krebs (1990). Spatial memory of four species of Parus: performance in an open-field analogue of a radial maze. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 42: 345-368.

Krebs, J. R., S. D. Healy and S. J. Shettleworth (1990). Spatial memory of Paridae: comparison of a storing and a non-storing species, the coal tit, Parus ater, and the great tit, P. major. Animal Behaviour 39: 1127-1137.

McNamara, J. M., A. I. Houston and J. R. Krebs (1990). Why hoard? The economics of food storing in tits, Parus spp. Behavioral Ecology 1: 12-23.

Norris, K. J. (1990). Female choice and the evolution of the conspicuous plumage coloration of monogamous male great tits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 26: 129-138.

Norris, K. J. (1990). Female choice and the quality of parental care in the great tit Parus major. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 27: 275-281.

Shettleworth, S. J., J. R. Krebs, S. D. Healy and C. M. Thomas (1990). Spatial memory of food-storing tits (Parus ater and P. atricapillus): comparison of storing and nonstoring tasks. Journal of Comparative Psychology 104: 71-81.

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Mcgregor, P. K. and J. R. Krebs (1989). Song learning in adult great tits (Parus major): effects of neighbours. Behaviour 108: 139-159.

Norris, K. J. and J. K. Blakey (1989). Evidence for cuckoldry in the great tit Parus major. Ibis 131: 436-442.

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Perrins, C. M. and R. H. Mccleery (1989). Laying dates and clutch size in the great tit. Wilson Bulletin 101: 236-253.

Weary, D. M. (1989). Categorical perception of bird song: how do great tits (Parus major) perceive temporal variation in their song? Journal of Comparative Psychology 103: 320-325.

Clobert, J., C. M. Perrins, R. H. Mccleery and A. G. Gosler (1988). Survival rate in the great tit Parus major in relation to sex, age, and immigration status. Journal of Animal Ecology 57: 287-306.

East, M. L. and C. M. Perrins (1988). The effect of nestboxes on breeding populations of birds in broadleaved temperate woodlands. Ibis 130: 393-401.

Glen, N. W. and C. M. Perrins (1988). Co-operative breeding by long-tailed tits. British Birds 81: 630-641.

Nur, N. (1988). The consequences of brood size for breeding blue tits. III. Measuring the cost of reproduction: survival, future fecundity, and differential dispersal. Evolution 42: 351-362.

Perrins, C. M. (1988). Survival of young great tits: relationships with weight. Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress 19: 892-899.

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Weary, D. M., J. R. Krebs, R. Eddyshaw, P. K. Mcgregor and A. Horn (1988). Decline in song output by great tits: exhaustion or motivation? Animal Behaviour 36: 1242-1244.

Boyce, M. S. and C. M. Perrins (1987). Optimizing great tit clutch size in a fluctuating environment. Ecology 68: 142-153.

Gosler, A. (1987). Sexual dimorphism in the summer bill length of the great tit. Ardea 75: 91-98.

Gosler, A. G. (1987). Pattern and process in the bill morphology of the great tit Parus major. Ibis 129: 451-476.

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Mace, R. (1987). The dawn chorus in the great tit Parus major is directly related to female fertility. Nature 330: 745-746.

Ydenberg, R. C. and J. R. Krebs (1987). The tradeoff between territorial defense and foraging in the great tit (Parus major). American Zoologist 27: 337-346.

McGregor, P. K. and M. I. Avery (1986). The unsung songs of great tits (Parus major): learning neighbours' songs for discrimination. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 18: 311-316.

Minot, E. O. and C. M. Perrins (1986). Interspecific interference competition – nest sites for blue and great tits. Journal of Animal Ecology 55: 331-350.

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Shy, E., P. K. McGregor and J. R. Krebs (1986). Discrimination of song types by male great tits. Behavioural Processes 13: 1-12.

Getty, T. and J. R. Krebs (1985). Lagging partial preferences for cryptic prey: a signal detection analysis of great tit foraging. American Naturalist 125: 39-60.

Perrins, C. M. and R. H. McCleery (1985). The effect of age and pair bond on the breeding success of great tits Parus major. Ibis 127: 306-315.

Perrins, C. M. and R. H. McCleery (1985). Factors controlling the population of great tits in Wytham. Biometrics 41: 337-337.

Avery, M. I. and J. R. Krebs (1984). Temperature and foraging success of great tits Parus major hunting for spiders. Ibis 126: 33-38.

McGregor, P. K. and J. R. Krebs (1984). Sound degradation as a distance cue in great tit (Parus major) song. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 16: 49-56.

McGregor, P. K. and J. R. Krebs (1984). Song learning and deceptive mimicry. Animal Behaviour 32: 280-287.

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Nur, N. (1984). The consequences of brood size for breeding blue tits II. Nestling weight, offspring survival and optimal brood size. Journal of Animal Ecology 53: 497-517.

Nur, N. (1984). Non-territorial intruders in the great tit: are they making the best of a bad lot? Animal Behaviour 32: 918-919.

Nur, N. (1984). Feeding frequencies of nestling blue tits (Parus caeruleus): costs, benefits and a model of optimal feeding frequency. Oecologia 65: 125-137.

Van Noordwijk, A. J. (1984). Problems in the analysis of dispersal and a critique on its 'heritability'in the great tit. Journal of Animal Ecology 53: 533-544.

Kacelnik, A. and J. R. Krebs (1983). The dawn chorus in the great tit (Parus major): proximate and ultimate causes. Behaviour 83: 287-309.

McGregor, P. K., J. R. Krebs and L. M. Ratcliffe (1983). The reaction of great tits (Parus major) to playback of degraded and undegraded songs: the effect of familiarity with the stimulus song type. Auk 100: 898-906.

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Dunn, E. (1982). How mice affect weasel predation on titmice. Mammal Review 12: 154-154.

Falls, J. B., J. R. Krebs and P. K. McGregor (1982). Song matching in the great tit (Parus major): the effect of similarity and familiarity. Animal Behaviour 30: 997-1009.

Krebs, J. R. (1982). Territorial defence in the great tit (Parus major): do residents always win? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 11: 185-194.

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McGregor, P. K. and J. R. Krebs (1982). Song types in a population of great tits (Parus major): their distribution, abundance and acquisition by individuals. Behaviour 79: 126-152.

Sherry, D., M. Avery and A. Stevens (1982). The spacing of stored food by marsh tits. Journal of Comparative Ethology 58: 153-162.

Cowie, R. J., J. R. Krebs and D. F. Sherry (1981). Food storing by marsh tits. Animal Behaviour 29: 1252-1259.

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Krebs, J. R., R. Ashcroft and K. van Orsdol (1981). Song matching in the great tit Parus major L. Animal Behaviour 29: 918-923.

McGregor, P. K., J. R. Krebs and C. M. Perrins (1981). Song repertoires and lifetime reproductive success in the great tit (Parus major). American Naturalist 118: 149-159.

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Sorensen, A. E. (1981). Interactions between birds and fruit in a temperate woodland. Oecologia 50: 242-249.

Houston, A. I., J. R. Krebs and J. T. Erichsen (1980). Optimal prey choice and discrimination time in the great tit (Parus major L.). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 6: 169-175.

Hunter, M. L. (1980). Microhabitat selection for singing and other behaviour in great tits, Parus major: some visual and acoustical considerations. Animal Behaviour 28: 468-475.

Krebs, J. R. (1980). Flocking and feeding in the great tit: a reply to Baker. American Naturalist 115: 147-149.

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Perrins, C. M. (1980). The great tit, Parus major. Biologist 27: 73-80.

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Perrins, C. M. and T. A. Geer (1980). The effect of sparrowhawks on tit populations. Ardea 68: 133-142.

Greenwood, P. J., P. H. Harvey and C. M. Perrins (1979). The role of dispersal in the great tit (Parus major): the causes, consequences and heritability of natal dispersal. Journal of Animal Ecology 48: 123-142.

Greenwood, P. J., P. H. Harvey and C. M. Perrins (1979). Kin selection and territoriality in birds? A test. Animal Behaviour 27: 645-651.

Harvey, P. H., P. J. Greenwood and C. M. Perrins (1979). Breeding area fidelity of great tits (Parus major). Journal of Animal Ecology 48: 305-313.

Harvey, P. H., P. J. Greenwood, C. M. Perrins and A. R. Martin (1979). Breeding success of great tits Parus major in relation to age of male and female parent. Ibis 121: 216-219.

Hunter, M. L. and J. R. Krebs (1979). Geographical variation in the song of the great tit (Parus major) in relation to ecological factors. Journal of Animal Ecology 48: 759-785.

Kacelnik, A. (1979). Foraging efficiency of great tits (Parus major L.) in relation to light intensity. Animal Behaviour 27: 237-241.

Geer, T. A. (1978). Effects of nesting sparrowhawks on nesting tits. Condor 80: 419-422.

Greenwood, P. J., P. H. Harvey and C. M. Perrins (1978). Inbreeding and dispersal in the great tit. Nature 271: 52-54.

Krebs, J., R. Ashcroft and M. Webber (1978). Song repertoires and territory defence in the great tit. Nature 271: 539-542.

O'Connor, R. J. (1978). Nest‐box insulation and the timing of laying in the wytham woods population of great tits Parus major. Ibis 120: 534-537.

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Dunn, E. (1977). Predation by weasels (Mustela nivalis) on breeding tits (Parus spp.) in relation to the density of tits and rodents. Journal of Animal Ecology 46: 633-652.

Krebs, J. R., J. T. Erichsen, M. I. Webber and E. L. Charnov (1977). Optimal prey selection in the great tit (Parus major). Animal Behaviour 25: 30-38.

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Dunn, E. K. (1976). Laying dates of four species of tits in Wytham Wood, Oxfordshire. British Birds 69: 45-50.

Krebs, J. R. (1976). Habituation and song repertoires in the great tit. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 1: 215-227.

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Partridge, L. (1976). Field and laboratory observations on the foraging and feeding techniques of blue tits (Parus caeruleus) and coal tits (P. ater) in relation to their habitats. Animal Behaviour 24: 534-544.

Perrins, C. M. (1976). Possible effects of qualitative changes in the insect diet of avian predators. Ibis 118: 580-584.

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O'Connor, R. J. (1975). Initial size and subsequent growth in passerine nestlings. Bird-Banding 46: 329-340.

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Perrins, C. M. and P. J. Jones (1974). The inheritance of clutch size in the great tit (Parus major L.). Condor 76: 225-229.

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Perrins, C. M. (1970). The timing of birds' breeding seasons. Ibis 112: 242-255.

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Royama, T. (1966). A re-interpretation of courtship feeding. Bird Study 13: 116-129.

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