Select Publications
Journal articles
2011, 'The relative importance of RHP and resource quality in contests with ownership asymmetries', Behavioral Ecology, 22, pp. 39 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq161
,2010, 'Examination of prior contest experience and the retention of winner and loser effects', Behavioral Ecology, 21, pp. 404 - 409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arp204
,2010, 'High resource valuation fuels "desperado" fighting tactics in female jumping spiders', Behavioral Ecology, 21, pp. 868 - 875
,2010, 'Vibratory communication in the jumping spider Phidippus clarus: Polyandry, male courtship signals, and mating success.', Behavioral Ecology, 21, pp. 1308 - 1314
,2010, 'Vibratory communication in the jumping spider Phidippus clarus: Substrate-borne courtship signals are important for male mating success', Ethology, 116, pp. 990 - 998
,2009, 'Evidence for developmental plasticity in response to demographic variation in nature', Ecology, 90, pp. 2287 - 2296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/08-1540.1
,2009, 'A change in competitive context reverses sexual selection on male size', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22, pp. 324 - 333
,2009, 'Body condition but not dietary restriction prolongs lifespan in a semelparous capital breeder', Biology Letters, 5, pp. 636 - 638
,2009, 'Evolution: Exposing the buried costs of reproduction', Current Biology, 19, pp. R1117 - R1119
,2009, 'Experience affects the outcome of agonistic contests without affecting the selective advantage of size', Animal Behaviour, 77, pp. 1533 - 1538
,2009, 'Habitat Fragmentation and Paternity in Least Flycatchers', The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 121, pp. 306 - 313
,2009, 'Plasticity in response to demographic variation may help explain continuous phenotypic variation in nature', Ecology, 90, pp. 2287 - 2296
,2008, 'Assessment during aggressive contests between male jumping spiders.', Animal Behaviour, 76, pp. 901 - 910
,2008, 'Male copulation frequency, sperm competition and genital damage in the golden orb-web spider, Nephila plumipes.', Australian Journal of Zoology, 56, pp. 233 - 238
,2008, 'Spatial and temporal demographic variation drives within-season fluctuations in sexual selection.', Evolution, 62, pp. 2316 - 2325
,2007, 'Risky mate search and mate preference in the golden orb-web spider (Nephila plumipes).', Behavioral Ecology, 18, pp. 189 - 195
,2006, 'Male development tracks rapidly shifting sexual versus natural selection pressures.', Current Biology, 16, pp. R242 - R243
,2005, 'Are least flycatcher (Empidonax minimus) clusters hidden leks?', Behavioral Ecology, 16, pp. 207 - 217
,2005, 'Terminal investment and male mate choice: Extreme tests of Bateman.', Integrative and Comparative Biology, 45, pp. 838 - 847
,2004, 'Discrimination of airborne pheromones by mate-searching male western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus): Species- and population-specific responses', Canadian Journal of Zoology, 82, pp. 1027 - 1034, http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/Z04-081
,2004, 'Discrimination of airborne pheromones by mate-searching black widow males: species- and population-specific responses.', Canadian Journal of Zoology - Revue Canadienne de Zoologie, 82, pp. 1027 - 1034
,2003, 'A method to improve confidence in paternity assignment in an open mating system.', Canadian Journal of Zoology - Revue Canadienne de Zoologie, 81, pp. 2073 - 2076
,2003, 'Song structure may differ between male and female least flycatchers.', Wilson Bulletin, pp. 241 - 245
,2002, 'Primary sex-ratio variation in two brood parasitic birds: Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) and Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)', Auk, 119, pp. 561 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/auk/119.2.561
,Conference Papers
2013, 'Sex-specific aging of performance in male and female professional basketball players', in INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, CA, San Francisco, pp. E120 - E120, presented at Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB), CA, San Francisco, 03 January 2013 - 07 January 2013, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000316991401015&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2008, 'The role of previous experience on contest outcome and patterns of selection in a jumping spider', Brock University, ON, presented at Ontario Ethology and Ecology Colloquium 2008, Brock University, ON, -
,2008, 'Spatial and temporal demographic variation drives within-season fluctuations in sexual selection', Ithaca, USA, presented at Bienniel Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Ithaca, USA
,2007, 'Intrasexual competition in spiders: the role of self assessment in male contests', Toronto, Canada, presented at Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Toronto, Canada, -
,2006, 'Male development tracks rapidly shifting sexual versus natural selection pressures', University of Toronto, ON, Canada, presented at Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour Colloquium, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
,2006, 'Scent of a woman: males track changes in selection pressures through cues of female and male density', QC, Canada, QC, Canada
,2005, 'Is bigger better? Examining male competitions in context', AB, Canada, presented at Joint meeting of Entomological Society of Alberta and The Entomological Society of Canada, AB, Canada
,2003, 'Is staying power more important than size? Tests in the Australian redback spider', McMaster University, ON, presented at Ontario Ethology and Ecology Colloquium 2003, McMaster University, ON
,Preprints
2024, Using Rhodamine to tag mites for studies of pre- and post-copulatory sexual selection, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.172549659.97907193/v1
,2024, Weathering the storm for love: Mate searching behaviour of wild males of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus), http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.23.604707
,2023, Design Preferences for a Serious Game–Based Cognitive Assessment of Older Adults in Prison: Thematic Analysis (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.45467
,2021, The better, the choosier: a meta-analysis on inter-individual variation of male mate choice, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/3nytg
,2021, Complex environments alter competitive dynamics in fungi, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/pf3kq
,2020, Lets talk about sex: what influences researchers’ perceptions of sex differences in animal behaviour?, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/5m4pj
,2020, Pre-maturation social experience affects female reproductive strategies and offspring fitness in a highly polyandrous insect, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/38fpy
,2017, Development rate rather than social environment influences cognitive performance in Australian black field crickets, Teleogryllus commodus, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2728
,2017, Development rate rather than social environment influences cognitive performance in Australian black field crickets, Teleogryllus commodus, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2728v1
,2016, Australian black field crickets show changes in neural gene expression associated with socially-induced morphological, life-history, and behavioral plasticity, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1941
,2016, Australian black field crickets show changes in neural gene expression associated with socially-induced morphological, life-history, and behavioral plasticity, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1941v1
,2014, Prior mating success can affect allocation towards future sexual signaling in crickets, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.481
,2014, Prior mating success can affect allocation towards future sexual signaling in crickets, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.481v1
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