Dr Jane Reid
Royal Society University Research Fellow
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Awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2013-2018)
Awarded the Zoological Society of London's Scientific Medal (2013)
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Biography
I did my degree in Natural Sciences (Zoology) at the University of Cambridge, and then a PhD in behavioural ecology at the University of Glasgow. I spent two years on a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia, followed by a Junior Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge. I joined the University of Aberdeen as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in 2006. My academic career in ecology is balanced by my experience and enthusiasm as a field naturalist; I have worked at bird observatories and on numerous field projects in the UK and elsewhere. I'm committed to using a combination of fieldwork, rigorous analyses of long-term data and modelling to gain an integrated understanding of the structure and dynamics of natural populations.
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Research Interests
My overall research aims are to understand how variation in individual life-histories arises as a function of ecological, environmental and genetic variation, and to understand the consequences of this life-history variation for the structure and dynamics of natural populations. This work is key to understanding, predicting and managing population responses to environmental variation and change.
I investigate these issues by integrating approaches and questions drawn from population ecology, evolutionary ecology and behavioural ecology. I use field experiments and long-term data from individual-based studies of wild bird populations, coupled with sophisticated statistical and simulation modelling. Current projects focus on the evolutionary ecology of extra-pair reproduction and inbreeding (using song sparrows), and links between environmental variation and temporal and spatial variation in life-history at a range of spatial scales (using choughs, starlings and shags).
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Current Research
I'm currently working on four main research projects:
Project 1: Evolutionary ecology of extra-pair reproduction and inbreeding in song sparrows, collaborating with Peter Arcese (University of British Columbia) & Lukas Keller (Universität Zürich).
Understanding the nature, causes and consequences of reproductive strategies among population members is key to understanding fundamental evolutionary and ecological processes that shape natural populations. I'm using a long-term study of a wild population of song sparrows on Mandarte Island, British Columbia, Canada to investigate the causes and consequences of polyandry (extra-pair reproduction) and inbreeding as individual reproductive strategies.
A song sparrow and Mandarte
The detailed long-term study of this population means that complete pedigree (family tree) data exist for all sparrows alive on Mandarte back to 1975, based on the observed social mating system. Using these data, I investigated the physiological and life-history causes and consequences of inbreeding. I showed that measures of immune reponse decline dramatically with inbreeding, as does male song repertoire size(a secondary sexual trait). I showed that parent and offspring inbreeding coefficients are correlated, and therefore that females expressing directional mating preferences for males with larger song repertoires would on average produce relatively outbred offspring, providing an unexpected benefit of mate choice.
However, despite their social monogamy, song sparrows are genetically polygynandrous with frequent extra-pair reproduction. My PhD student Rebecca Sardell genotyped all sparrows on Mandarte since 1993, and assigned all offspring to their true genetic parents. This analyses revealed that 28% of offspring were sired by a male other than their mother's social mate. Now we have a flashy new pedigree that incorporates 28% of paternal links corrected for extrapair paternity.
Rebecca Sardell sampling a song sparrow chick - who was this one's father? And the new song sparrow pedigree.
This new dataset allows us to answer many fascinating questions regarding the magnitude of inbreeding depression and variance in fitness, and the quantitative genetic basis and consequences of polyandry, extra-pair reproduction and inbreeding avoidance.
Contrary to expectation, Rebecca found that extra-pair offspring tend to be less fit than their within-pair half-sibs. More specifically, a polyandrous female's daughters that were sired by extra-pair males tend to be less fit than daughters that were sired by the females social mate, while the opposite is true for sons.
My postdoc Christophe Lebigre tested the hypothesis that extra-pair reproduction increases the variance in male fitness. Again contrary to widespread prediction, the increase in variance was relatively small.
I used sophisticated quantitative genetic 'animal model' analyses to show that the proportion of a female's offspring that is sired by an extra-pair male is heritable, while a male's extra-pair reproductive success shows substantial inbreeding depression. Furthermore, and again opposite to expectation, I showed that polyandrous females offspring of lower additive genetic value for survival by mating with an extra-pair male than by mating with their socially paired mate!
I gave a plenary talk on this work at Oslo International Darwin Day in February 2012.
Key recent publications:
Reid J.M. (2012) Predicting evolutionary responses to selection on polyandry in the wild: additive genetic covariances with female extra-pair reproduction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B online. Available free on EXIS Open Choice.
Sardell, R.J., Keller, L.F., Arcese, P. & Reid, J.M. (2012) Indirect benefits of extra-pair reproduction: lifetime reproductive success of within-pair and extra-pair offspring in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). American Naturalist 179, 779-793. Featured in Nature Research Highlights, 10th May 2012.
Reid, J.M. & Sardell, R.J. (2012) Indirect selection on female extra-pair reproduction? Comparing the additive genetic value of extra-pair versus within-pair offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279, 1700-1708. Available free on EXIS Open Choice.
Lebigre, C., Arcese, P., Sardell, R.J., Keller, L.F. & Reid, J.M. (2012) Extra-pair paternity and the variance in male fitness in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Evolution online.
Sardell, R.J., Keller, L.F., Arcese, P. & Reid, J.M. (2011) Sex-specific differential survival of extra-pair and within-pair young in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278, 3251-3259. Available free on EXIS Open Choice.
Reid, J.M., Arcese, P., Sardell, R.J. & Keller, L.F. (2011) Additive genetic variance, heritability and inbreeding depression in male extra-pair reproductive success. American Naturalist 177, 177-187.
Reid, J.M., Arcese, P., Sardell, R.J. & Keller, L.F. (2011) Heritability of female extra-pair paternity rate in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278, 1114-1120. Available free on EXIS Open Choice, and featured in NERC's Planet Earth, Oct 2010.
Project 2: Population ecology applied to the conservation of red-billed choughs, in collaboration with Prof P. Monaghan (University of Glasgow), Eric Bignal & Sue Bignal (Scottish Chough Study Group) & Davy McCracken (Scottish Agricultural College).
The chough is of high conservation priority across Europe. Since 1980, the Scottish Chough Study Group has monitored the breeding success and survival of individually colour-ringed choughs on the Scottish island of Islay. We're using these long-term data to quantify temporal and spatial variation in individual life-histories, identify environmental causes of demographic variation and understand the spatial and temporal dynamics of this population. In a NERC-funded project we worked with Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to apply this rigorous population ecology to conservation strategy for choughs in Scotland. I gave a plenary talk on this work at the NTNU Sustainable Conservation conference in Trondheim, March 2010 (see http://www.ntnu.edu/ccb/conference).
Choughs being ringed and observed on Islay, and featured in Journal of Animal Ecology
My Honours student Marius Wenzel (funded by a Nuffield Studentship) genotyped choughs from several European populations to establish the degree of genetic differentiation among populations. His results show strong genetic structuring across the species' current range, and show that the choughs that recently recolonised Cornwall most probably originated in Ireland!
Marius won the Charles Darwin Award (from the Zoological Society of London) for the best Zoology Honours thesis in the UK - well done Marius!
Marius has now been succeeded by PhD student Amanda Trask (funded by NERC and Scottish Natural Heritage).
Marius Wenzel - chough genotyper-in-chief
Key recent publications:
Wenzel, M.A., Webster, L.M.I., Blanco, G., Burgess, M.D., Kerbiriou, C., Segelbacher, G., Piertney, S.B. & Reid, J.M. (2012) Pronounced genetic structure and low genetic diversity in European red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) populations. Conservation Genetics 13, 1213-1230.
Reid, J.M., Bignal, E., Bignal, S., Bogdanova, M.I., Monaghan, P. & McCracken, D.I. (2011) Diagnosing the timing of demographic bottlenecks: sub-adult survival in red-billed choughs. Journal of Applied Ecology 48, 797-805.
Reid, J.M., Bignal, E., Bignal, S., McCracken, D.I., Bogdanova, M.I. & Monaghan, P. (2010) Parent age, lifespan and offspring survival: structured variation in life-history in a wild population. Journal of Animal Ecology 79, 851-862 (journal cover).
Reid, J.M., et al. (2008) Patterns and processes of demographic variation: environmental correlates of pre-breeding survival in red-billed choughs (Pyrrhocorrax pyrrhocorax). Journal of Animal Ecology 77, 777-789.
Reid, J.M., Bogdanova, M. & Monaghan, P. (2009) Population ecology and conservation of red-billed choughs in Scotland. Research and policy report to Scottish Natural Heritage & Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 112 pages. Summary document available at Knowledge Scotland:
http://www.knowledgescotland.org/images_db/chough%20research%20report%20summary%20document.pdf
Project 3: Temporal and spatial variation in life-history and selection on morphology in starlings, with Dr P.G.H. Evans (Seawatch Foundation and University of Bangor).
We're using long-term life-history data from starlings on Fair Isle to understand how and why life-histories vary on a small spatial scale. Fair Isle is only 5km long, and varies from croft land in the south to moorland in the north. Starlings inhabit the whole island yet are highly philopatric within the habitat mosaic, rarely moving from north to south or vice versa.
Fair Isle starling, croftland and moorland. How philoptaric are starlings and why?
My PhD students Daisy Brickhill and Jessica Walkup (both funded by NERC and Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust) are respectively quantifying spatial variation in life-history and movements within Fair Isle, and spatial variation in selection on morphology.
Watch this space for some exciting results!
Jess and Daisy ringing starling chicks on a lovely summer day on Fair Isle!
And if you haven't been to Fair Isle yet then you really should... http://www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/
Project 4: Large-scale variation in life-history and demography in shags, collaborating with Francis Daunt & Sarah Wanless (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)
A key aim in population ecology is to understand how life-history variation, and hence population demography and dynamics, arises as a consequence of the environmental conditions that individuals experience both currently and previously. Many wild animals disperse between seasons, and it is widely hypothesised that environments experienced in one season or location might affect an individual's reproduction or survival in subsequent seasons or locations. Yet few field studies have been able to track large numbers of individual population members across different seasonal locations, thereby allowing individual variation in reproductive success to be related to individual variation in winter location.
A breeding colony of shags on the Isle of May, Firth of Forth, has been studied in detail since 1998 by CEH. Almost all adults are individually marked with field-readable rings, and their breeding success and survival are documented. We have recently discovered that it is possible to locate a substantial proportion of these individuals in winter, and that there is remarkable variation in winter location; some individuals remain on the Isle of May while others move several hundred kilometres around the Scottish coast. This has sparked more intensive winter fieldwork, and an excuse to spend my weekends wandering along random bits of Scottish coastline. Fraserburgh is definitely my favourite place!
Isle of May shags wintering at Peterhead and Fraserbrugh. If you've seen one please let us know! - photos by Ed Duthie & Ruud Altenburg
My PhD student Emily Barlow (funded by a NERC/CEH studentship) estimated natal dispersal rates from the Isle of May over a large spatial scale, and quantified the genetic structure of shags across the north sea and more widely. Summer observations revealed rather few dispersers breeding at other colonies (ca. 10%), and winter observations suggest that we didn't miss many.
My current PhD students Hannah Grist (funded by a NERC case studentship with CEH and Scottish Ornithologists' Club) and Jenny Sturgeon funded by (MASTS) are on a mission to locate all colour-ringed shags this winter.
We have several hundred observations already! You might meet them out on the coast somewhere...
Many thanks to the Scottish Ornithologists' Club for their support (http://www.the-soc.org.uk/), and to Raymond Duncan and the Grampian Ringing Group for ceaseless enthusiasm and craziness...
Finally, I'm co-supervising Innes Sim (RSPB) in his PhD study of the population and conservation ecology of ring ouzels.
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Research Grants
2013-2018 European Research Council Starting Grant. ‘Co-evolutionary quantitative genetics of polyandry and inbreeding in the wild: new theory and test’.
2006-2013 Royal Society University Research Fellowship. 'Individual variation in a population context'.
2008-2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Zoology.
2010 Royal Society Kavli International Workshop. 'Sexual selection and kin selection in structured populations'.
2006-2009 NERC Knowledge Transfer Grant (co-funded by Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). 'Turning population ecology into conservation strategy: population structure, dynamics and conservation of red-billed choughs' with Prof P. Monaghan and the Scottish Chough Study Group.
2003-2006 Junior Research Fellowship, Jesus College, Cambridge.
2005 Phyllis & Eileen Gibbs Travelling Fellowship (Newnham College, Cambridge) 'Humoral immunity and inbreeding in song sparrows'.
2001-2003 Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia, Canada.
2001-2003 Britsh Ecological Society Early Career Project Grant. 'Inbreeding and immunity in song sparrows'.
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Teaching Responsibilities
I contribute to undergraduate and MSc courses in behavioural ecology, population ecology and wildlife management.
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External Responsibilities
Associate Editor, Journal of Animal Ecology (2007-).
Director, Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust (2006-).
British Trust for Ornithology Council & National Bird Ringing Committee (2004-2010).
Editorial Board, Ringing & Migration (2000-2008).
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Policy, Public Understanding and Outreach
I'm committed to ensuring that my science is communicated effectively to policy-makers and the wider public.
Royal Society MP-Scientist pairing scheme 2007-08.
I was paired with Anne Begg (Labour MP for Aberdeen South). I spent a week in Westminster learning about Anne's job, and Anne spent a day with me to see how population ecology can inform conservation policy.
International Chough Conference, Ayr, September 2007.
This meeting brought together chough researchers and conservation managers from across Europe, with the aim of using population ecology to inform conservation policy for this species (funded by NERC, SNH and SAC).
Discussing chough ecology with Islay farmers:
Aberdeen University Ringing Group - bird ringing for all!
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Recent publications
Lebigre, C., Arcese, P., Sardell, R.J., Keller, L.F. & Reid, J.M. (2013) Decomposing the variance in male reproductive success: age-specific variances and covariances through multiple reproductive routes. Journal of Animal Ecology, in press.
Szulkin, M., Stopher, K.V., Pemberton, J. & Reid, J.M. (2013) Inbreeding avoidance, tolerance and preference in animals? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, in press.
Reid, J.M. (2012) Predicting evolutionary responses to selection on polyandry in the wild: additive genetic covariances with female extra-pair reproduction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279, 4652-4660.
Sardell, R.J., Arcese, P. & Reid, J.M. (2012)Offspring fitness varies with parental extra-pair status in song sparrows, Melospiza melodia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279, 4078-4086.
Wenzel, M.A., Webster, L.M.I., Blanco, G., Burgess, M.D., Kerbiriou, C., Segelbacher, G., Piertney, S.B. & Reid, J.M. (2012) Pronounced genetic structure and low genetic diversity in European red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) populations. Conservation Genetics 13, 1213-1230.
Lebigre, C., Arcese, P., Sardell, R.J., Keller, L.F. & Reid, J.M. (2012) Extra-pair paternity and the variance in male fitness in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Evolution 66, 3111-3129.
Sardell, R.J., Keller, L.F., Arcese, P. & Reid, J.M. (2012) Indirect benefits of extra-pair reproduction: lifetime reproductive success of within-pair and extra-pair offspring in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). American Naturalist 179, 779-793. Featured in Nature Research Highlights
Reid, J.M. & Sardell, R.J. (2012) Indirect selection on female extra-pair reproduction? Comparing the additive genetic value of extra-pair versus within-pair offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279, 1700-1708.
Sardell, R.J., Keller, L.F., Arcese, P. & Reid, J.M. (2011) Sex-specific differential survival of extra-pair and within-pair young in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278, 3251-3259.
Reid, J.M., Bignal, E., Bignal, S., Bogdanova, M.I., Monaghan, P. & McCracken, D.I. (2011) Diagnosing the timing of demographic bottlenecks: sub-adult survival in red-billed choughs. Journal of Applied Ecology 48, 797-805.
Reid, J.M., Arcese, P., Sardell, R.J. & Keller, L.F. (2011) Additive genetic variance, heritability and inbreeding depression in male extra-pair reproductive success. American Naturalist 177, 177-187.
Reid, J.M., Arcese, P., Sardell, R.J. & Keller, L.F. (2011) Heritability of female extra-pair paternity rate in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278, 1114-1120.
Sim, I.M.W., Rebecca, G.W., Ludwig, S., Grant, M.C. & Reid, J.M. (2011) Characterising demographic variation and contributions to population growth rate in a declining population. Journal of Animal Ecology 80, 159-170. Recommended by Faculty of 1000.
Postma, E., Heinrich, F., Koller, U., Sardell, R.J., Reid, J.M., Arcese, P. & Keller, L.F. (2011) Disentangling the effect of genes, the environment and chance on sex ratio variation in a wild bird population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278, 2996-3002.
Sardell, R.J., Keller, L.F., Arcese, P., Bucher, T. & Reid, J.M. (2010) Comprehensive paternity assignment: genotype, spatial location and social status in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Molecular Ecology 19, 4352-4364.
Taylor, S.S., Sardell, R.J., Reid, J.M., Bucher, T., Taylor, N.G., Arcese, P. & Keller, L.F. (2010) Inbreeding coefficient and heterozygosity-fitness correlations in unhatched and hatched song sparrow nestmates. Molecular Ecology 19, 4454-4461.
Minderman, J., Reid, J.M., Hughes, M., Denny, M.J.H., Hogg, S., Evans, P.G.H. & Whittingham, M.J. (2010) Animal personality traits in an ecological context: exploration behaviour and home range size in wild starlings Sturnus vulgaris. Behavioral Ecology 21, 1321-1329.
Reid, J.M., Bignal, E., Bignal, S., McCracken, D.I., Bogdanova, M.I. & Monaghan, P. (2010) Parent age, lifespan and offspring survival: structured variation in life-history in a wild population. Journal of Animal Ecology 79, 851-862.
Reid, J.M. & Keller, L.F. (2010) Correlated inbreeding among relatives: occurrence, magnitude and implications. Evolution 64, 973-985.
Cornulier, T., Elston, D.A., Arcese, P., Benton, T.G., Douglas, D.J.T., Lambin, X., Reid, J.M., Robinson, R.A. & Sutherland, W.J. (2009) Estimating annual breeding frequency from censused breeding dates: using mixture models to disaggregate overlapping distributions. Ecology Letters 12, 1184-1193.
Minderman, J., Reid, J.M., Evans, P.G.H. & Whittingham, M.J. (2009) Personality traits in wild starlings: exploration behaviour and environmental sensitivity. Behavioral Ecology 20,830-837.
Fromhage, L., Kokko, H. & Reid, J.M. (2009) Evolution of mate choice for genome-wide heterozygosity. Evolution 63, 684-694.
Reid, J.M., Arcese, P. & Keller, L.F. (2008) Individual phenotype, kinship and the occurrence of inbreeding in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Evolution 62, 887-899.
Reid, J.M., Bignal, E., Bignal, S., McCracken, D.I., Bogdanova, M.I. & Monaghan, P. (2008) Investigating patterns and processes of demographic variation: environmental correlates of pre-breeding survival in red-billed choughs (Pyrrhocorrax pyrrhocorax). Journal of Animal Ecology 77, 777-789.
Keller, L.F.ª, Reid, J.M.ª& Arcese, P. (2008) Testing evolutionary models of senescence in a natural population: age and inbreeding effects on fitness components in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275, 597-604. ª Equal author contributions.
Reid, J.M. (2007) Secondary sexual ornamentation and non-additive genetic benefits of female mate choice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274, 1395-1402. Featured in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23, 1-3.
Reid, J.M., Arcese, P., Keller, L.F., Elliott, K.H., Sampson, L. & Hasselquist, D. (2007) Inbreeding effects on immune response in free-living song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274, 697-706.
Reid, J.M., Arcese, P., Keller, L.F. & Hasselquist, D. (2006) Long-term maternal effect on offspring immune response in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Biology Letters 2, 573-576.
Marr, A.B., Arcese, P. Hochachka, W.M., Reid, J.M. & Keller, L.F. (2006) Interactive effects of environmental stress and inbreeding on reproductive traits in a wild bird population. Journal of Animal Ecology75, 1406-1425.
Reid, J.M.,Arcese, P. & Keller, L.F. (2006) Intrinsic parent-offspring correlation in inbreeding level in a song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) population open to immigration. American Naturalist 168, 1-13. Featured in Current Biology 16, 810-812.
Reid, J.M.,Bignal, E.M., Bignal, S., McCracken, D.I. & Monaghan, P. (2006) Spatial variation in demography and population growth rate: the importance of natal location. Journal of Animal Ecology75, 1201-1211.
Reid, J.M., Arcese, P., Cassidy, A.L.E.V., Hiebert, S.M, Smith, J.N.M., Stoddard, P.K., Marr, A.B. & Keller, L.F. (2005) Fitness correlates of song repertoire size in free-living song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). American Naturalist 165, 299-310. Featured in Current Biology 15, 334-336.
Reid, J.M., Arcese, P., Cassidy, A.L.E.V., Marr, A.B., Smith, J.N.M. & Keller, L.F. (2005) Hamilton & Zuk meet heterozygosity? Song repertoire size signals inbreeding and immunity in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272, 481-487.
Reid, J.M.,Bignal, E.M., Bignal, S., McCracken, D.I. & Monaghan, P. (2004) Identifying the life-history determinants of population growth rate: a case study of red-billed choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax). Journal of Animal Ecology 73, 777-788.
Reid, J.M., Arcese, P., Cassidy, A.L.E.V., Hiebert, S.M. Marr, A.B., Smith, J.N.M., Stoddard, P.K. & Keller, L.F. (2004) Song repertoire size predicts initial mating success in male song sparrows Melospiza melodia. Animal Behaviour 68, 1055-1063.
Cresswell, W., Holt, S., Reid, J.M., Whitfield, D.P., Mellanby, R.J., Norton, D. & Waldron, S.(2004)The energetic costs of egg heating constrain incubation attendance but do not determine daily energy expenditure in the pectoral sandpiper. Behavioral Ecology 15, 498-507.
Hilton, G.M., Hansell, M.H., Ruxton, G.D., Reid, J.M. & Monaghan, P. (2004) Using artificial nests to test importance of nesting material and nest shelter for incubation energetic. Auk 121, 777-787.
Reid, J.M.,Arcese, P. & Keller, L.F. (2003) Inbreeding depresses immune response in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia): direct and inter-generational effects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 270, 2151-2157.
Reid, J.M.,Bignal, E.M., Bignal, S., McCracken, D.I. & Monaghan, P. (2003) Age-specific reproductive performance in the red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax): patterns and processes in a natural population. Journal of Animal Ecology 72, 765-776. Awarded the journal’s Elton Prize.
Reid, J.M.,Bignal, E.M., Bignal, S., McCracken, D.I. & Monaghan, P. (2003) Environmental variability, life-history covariation and cohort effects in the red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax). Journal of Animal Ecology 72, 36-46.
Cresswell, W., Holt, S., Reid, J.M., Whitfield, D.P. & Mellanby, R.J. (2003)Do energetic demands constrain incubation scheduling in a biparental species? Behavioral Ecology 14, 97-102.
Reid, J.M.,Cresswell, W., Holt, S., Mellanby, R.J., Whitfield, D.P. & Ruxton G.D. (2002) Heat loss and nest scrape design in pectoral sandpipers. Functional Ecology 16, 305-312.
Reid, J.M.,Monaghan, P. & Ruxton, G.D. (2002)Males matter: the occurrence and consequences of male incubation in starlings. Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology 51, 255-261.
Reid, J.M.,Ruxton, G.D. Monaghan, P. & Hilton, G.M. (2002)The energetic consequences of clutch temperature and clutch size for a uniparental intermittent incubator. Auk 119, 54-61.
Reid, J.M., Monaghan, P. & Ruxton, G.D. (2000) Resource allocation between reproductive phases: the importance of thermal conditions in determining the costs of incubation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 267, 37-41.
Reid, J.M., Monaghan, P. & Ruxton, G.D. (2000) The consequences of clutch size for incubation conditions and hatching success in starlings. Functional Ecology 14, 560-565.
Reid, J.M., Monaghan, P. & Ruxton, G.D. (1999) Effect of clutch cooling rate on starling incubation strategy. Animal Behaviour 58, 1161-1167.
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