Ben C. Sheldon

Research interests

Publications

• Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

  Nature Communications · 2019 · 10.1038/s41467-019-10924-4

• Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection

  Science · 2017 · 10.1126/science.aag2773

• Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

  Nature · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13998

• Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits ( Parus major)

  Ecology Letters · 2013 · 10.1111/ele.12181

• Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2012 · 10.1098/rspb.2012.1591

• Overlapping community detection using Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization

  Physical Review E · 2011 · 10.1103/physreve.83.066114

• Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2010.08.002

• The Misuse of BLUP in Ecology and Evolution

  The American Naturalist · 2009 · 10.1086/648604

• A quantitative review of heterozygosity–fitness correlations in animal populations

  Molecular Ecology · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04247.x

• Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Climate Change in a Wild Bird Population

  Science · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1157174

• Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast–slow life‐history continuum

  Ecology Letters · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01187.x

• Genetic basis of fitness differences in natural populations

  Nature · 2008 · 10.1038/nature06737

• Sexually antagonistic genetic variation for fitness in red deer

  Nature · 2007 · 10.1038/nature05912

• Maternal Dominance, Maternal Condition, and Offspring Sex Ratio in Ungulate Mammals

  The American Naturalist · 2004 · 10.1086/381003

• Constraints in the Evolution of Sex Ratio Adjustment

  Science · 2002 · 10.1126/science.1069043

• Explaining stasis: microevolutionary studies in natural populations

  Genetica · 2001 · 10.1023/a:1013391806317

• Differential allocation: tests, mechanisms and implications

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-5347(00)01953-4

• Lifetime Reproductive Success and Heritability in Nature

  The American Naturalist · 2000 · 10.1086/303330

• Ultraviolet colour variation influences blue tit sex ratios

  Nature · 1999 · 10.1038/47239

• Genetic architecture of fitness and nonfitness traits: empirical patterns and development of ideas

  Heredity · 1999 · 10.1046/j.1365-2540.1999.00585.x

• Recent studies of avian sex ratios

  Heredity · 1998 · 10.1046/j.1365-2540.1998.00374.x

• Infectious diseases, reproductive effort and the cost of reproduction in birds

  · 1997 · 10.1007/978-94-009-0077-6_6

• Sex ratio adjustment in relation to paternal attractiveness in a wild bird population.

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1996 · 10.1073/pnas.93.21.11723

• Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-5347(96)10039-2

• Male phenotype, fertility, and the pursuit of extra-pair copulations by female birds

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1994 · 10.1098/rspb.1994.0089

Current projects

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