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2010, 'Evolution and Phylogeny of Communication', in Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Volume-Three Set, pp. V1-652-V1-660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00017-6
,2010, 'Phylogeny', in Mills DS; Marchant Forde JN; McGreevy PD; Morton DB; Nicol CJ; Phillips CJC; Sandoe P; Swaisgood RR (ed.), The encyclopedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare, CABI, Cambridge MA, pp. 471 - 473
,2010, 'Phylogeny and the evolution of communication', in Breed MD; Moore J (ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Academic Press, Oxford, pp. 652 - 660
,2010, 'The evolution of behavior: phylogeny and the origin of present-day diversity', in Westneat D; Fox C (ed.), Evolutionary Behavioural Ecology, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 108 - 128
,2009, 'Evolution and Phylogeny of Communication', in Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, pp. 652 - 660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00017-6
,2004, 'Behavioral phylogeny: the evolutionary origins of behavior', in Bekoff M (ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Greenwood Press, Westport, pp. 87 - 92
,Journal articles
2024, 'Abiotic factors that prompt major ecological transitions: Are fish on land to escape an intolerable aquatic environment?', Functional Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14672
,2023, 'Wild kangaroos become more social when caring for young and may maintain long-term affiliations with popular individuals', Animal Behaviour, 205, pp. 183 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.08.011
,2023, 'Drought-induced relocation of ant colonies and its consequences for the long-term spatial ecology of a population under stress', Functional Ecology, 37, pp. 2231 - 2245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14383
,2023, 'Evolutionary loss of complexity in animal signals: cause and consequence', Evolution, 77, pp. 660 - 669, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpac057
,2023, 'Global effects of forest modification on herpetofauna communities', Conservation Biology, 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13998
,2022, 'Signal detection shapes ornament allometry in functionally convergent Caribbean Anolis and Southeast Asian Draco lizards', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35, pp. 1508 - 1523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14102
,2022, 'Why does the complexity of functionally equivalent signals vary across closely related species?', Behavioral Ecology, 33, pp. 926 - 936, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac050
,2022, 'Female preference for super-sized male ornaments and its implications for the evolution of ornament allometry', Evolutionary Ecology, 36, pp. 701 - 716, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-022-10181-w
,2022, 'Identifying potential cues of species identity in complex animal signals', Animal Behaviour, 186, pp. 121 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.02.001
,2022, 'Natural toxins leached from Eucalyptus globulus plantations affect the development and life-history of anuran tadpoles', Freshwater Biology, 67, pp. 378 - 388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13847
,2022, 'The stabilising impact of natural selection on the allometry of sexual ornaments: Fish that escape locomotor constraints exhibit extravagant ornamentation', Functional Ecology, 36, pp. 500 - 511, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13968
,2021, 'Costs of territoriality: a review of hypotheses, meta-analysis, and field study', Oecologia, 197, pp. 615 - 631, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05068-6
,2021, 'Deep-time convergent evolution in animal communication presented by shared adaptations for coping with noise in lizards and other animals', Ecology Letters, 24, pp. 1750 - 1761, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13773
,2021, 'Conspicuous animal signals avoid the cost of predation by being intermittent or novel: Confirmation in the wild using hundreds of robotic prey', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, pp. 20210706, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0706
,2020, 'Crossing extreme habitat boundaries: Jack-of-all-trades facilitates invasion but is eroded by adaptation to a master-of-one', Functional Ecology, 34, pp. 1404 - 1415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13600
,2020, 'Gliding dragons and flying squirrels: Diversifying versus stabilizing selection on morphology following the evolution of an innovation', American Naturalist, 195, pp. E51 - E66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/706305
,2018, 'Opsin gene evolution in amphibious and terrestrial combtooth blennies (Blenniidae)', , pp. 503516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/503516
,2018, 'Walk, swim or fly? Locomotor mode predicts genetic differentiation in vertebrates', Ecology Letters, 21, pp. 638 - 645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12930
,2017, 'Why does the rate of signal production in ectotherms vary with temperature?', Behavioral Ecology, 28, pp. 1272 - 1282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx089
,2017, 'Manipulation of habitat isolation and area implicates deterministic factors and limited neutrality in community assembly', Ecology and Evolution, 7, pp. 5845 - 5860, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3126
,2017, 'Color pattern facilitates species recognition but not signal detection: A field test using robots', Behavioral Ecology, 28, pp. 597 - 606, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw186
,2017, 'Gliding lizards use the position of the sun to enhance social display', Biology Letters, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3671992
,2017, 'Gliding lizards use the position of the sun to enhance social display', Biology Letters, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0979
,2017, 'Ecological release from aquatic predation is associated with the emergence of marine blenny fishes onto land', American Naturalist, 189, pp. 570 - 579, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/691155
,2016, 'Revisiting the cost of carnivory in mammals', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29, pp. 2181 - 2190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12936
,2016, 'Many paths to a common destination: Morphological differentiation of a functionally convergent visual signal', American Naturalist, 188, pp. 306 - 318, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/687560
,2016, 'Ornament size and colour as alternative strategies for effective communication in gliding lizards', Journal of evolutionary biology, 29, pp. 1689 - 1700, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12908
,2016, 'Repeated evolution of amphibious behavior in fish and its implications for the colonization of novel environments', Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 70, pp. 1747 - 1759, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12971
,2016, 'Land colonisation by fish is associated with predictable changes in life history', Oecologia, 181, pp. 769 - 781, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3593-6
,2016, 'Understanding the spatial scale of genetic connectivity at sea: Unique insights from a land fish and a meta-analysis', PLoS ONE, 11, pp. e0150991, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150991
,2016, 'Plasticity in social communication and its implications for the colonization of novel habitats', Behavioral Ecology, 27, pp. 341 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv165
,2015, 'Evolution of displays in Galápagos lava lizards: Comparative analyses of signallers and robot playbacks to receivers', Animal Behaviour, 109, pp. 33 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.08.002
,2015, 'Repeated evolution of exaggerated dewlaps and other throat morphology in lizards', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28, pp. 1948 - 1964, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12709
,2015, 'Population variation in the life history of a land fish, alticus arnoldorum, and the effects of predation and density', PLoS ONE, 10, pp. e0137244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137244
,2015, 'Repeated evolution and the impact of evolutionary history on adaptation Evolutionary Ecology and Behaviour', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15, pp. 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0424-z
,2014, 'Marked colour divergence in the gliding membranes of a tropical lizard mirrors population differences in the colour of falling leaves', Biology Letters, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0776
,2014, 'How populations differentiate despite gene flow: Sexual and natural selection drive phenotypic divergence within a land fish, the Pacific leaping blenny', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14, pp. 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-14-97
,2014, 'Evolutionary predictors of mammalian home range size: Body mass, diet and the environment', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, pp. 1105 - 1114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12194
,2014, 'Habitat partitioning and morphological differentiation: The Southeast Asian Draco lizards and Caribbean Anolis lizards compared', Oecologia, 175, pp. 651 - 666, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-2921-y
,2013, 'Key innovations and island colonization as engines of evolutionary diversification: A comparative test with the Australasian diplodactyloid geckos', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, pp. 2662 - 2680, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12261
,2013, 'Natural selection in novel environments: Predation selects for background matching in the body colour of a land fish', Animal Behaviour, 86, pp. 1241 - 1249, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.09.027
,2013, 'The biomechanical basis of evolutionary change in a territorial display', Functional Ecology, 27, pp. 1186 - 1200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12110
,2012, 'Factors leading to the evolution and maintenance of a male ornament in territorial species', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66, pp. 231 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-011-1271-6
,2012, 'Historical contingency and behavioural divergence in territorial Anolis lizards', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25, pp. 2047 - 2055, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02582.x
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