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List of works by Ian P.F. Owens

4000 years of phenotypic change in an island bird: heterogeneity of selection over three microevolutionary timescales.

scientific article

A global approach for natural history museum collections ⬇️

article published in Science 24 March 2023

Ancient ecological diversification explains life-history variation among living birds

scientific article published in 1995

Annual to Daily Ice Velocity and Water Pressure Variations on Ka Roimata o Hine Hukatere (Franz Josef Glacier), New Zealand

article

Are subspecies useful in evolutionary and conservation biology?

scientific article published in May 2006

Avian haematozoan parasites and their associations with mosquitoes across Southwest Pacific Islands.

scientific article published in October 2008

Biogeographical basis of recent phenotypic divergence among birds: a global study of subspecies richness

scientific article

Biogeographical patterns of blood parasite lineage diversity in avian hosts from southern Melanesian islands

scholarly article by Farah Ishtiaq et al published 18 August 2009 in Journal of Biogeography

Biogeography of avian blood parasites (Leucocytozoon spp.) in two resident hosts across Europe: phylogeographic structuring or the abundance-occupancy relationship?

scientific article published on 22 August 2011

Challenges for biodiversity research in Europe

Conspicuous males suffer higher predation risk: visual modelling and experimental evidence from lizards

article

Cooperative breeding in birds: a comparative test of the life history hypothesis

scientific article

Costly sexual signals: are carotenoids rare, risky or required?

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Direct versus indirect sexual selection: genetic basis of colour, size and recruitment in a wild bird.

scientific article

Division of labour within cooperatively breeding groups

EVOLUTION OF COLOR VARIATION IN DRAGON LIZARDS: QUANTITATIVE TESTS OF THE ROLE OF CRYPSIS AND LOCAL ADAPTATION

article by Devi M. Stuart-Fox et al published 2004 in Evolution

Ecological basis of extinction risk in birds: habitat loss versus human persecution and introduced predators ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 24 October 2000)

Ecology and evolution. Sex differences in mortality rate

scientific article published in September 2002

Ecology predicts large-scale patterns of phylogenetic diversification in birds

scientific article published on 12 June 2006

Energy, range dynamics and global species richness patterns: reconciling mid-domain effects and environmental determinants of avian diversity

scientific article

Environmental determination of a sexually selected trait

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates

scientific article published in Nature

Evolution of color variation in dragon lizards: quantitative tests of the role of crypsis and local adaptation

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Experimental evidence of impacts of an invasive parakeet on foraging behavior of native birds. ⬇️

scientific article

Extra pair paternity in birds: a review of interspecific variation and adaptive function

scientific article

Extra-pair paternity and egg dumping in birds: life history, parental care and the risk of retaliation

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2002)

Extrinsic versus intrinsic factors in the decline and extinction of Australian marsupials

article

Female choice and annual reproductive success favour less-ornamented male house sparrows

article

Female home range size and the evolution of social organization in macropod marsupials

scientific article published in 2000

Fluorescent signaling in parrots

scientific article

Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, New Zealand: Historic length records

article

Genetic consequences of sequential founder events by an island-colonizing bird ⬇️

scientific article

Genetic covariance between indices of body condition and immunocompetence in a passerine bird

scientific article

Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds

scientific article published in March 2009

Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates.

scientific article

Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threat.

scientific article

Global patterns of geographic range size in birds

scientific article published in July 2006

Grenyer et al. reply

scientific article published in Nature

Hormonal basis of sexual dimorphism in birds: implications for new theories of sexual selection

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Human impacts and the global distribution of extinction risk

scientific article

Immunocompetence: a neglected life history trait or conspicuous red herring?

article by Ian Owens & Ken Wilson published May 1999 in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Intake rates and the functional response in shorebirds (Charadriiformes) eating macro-invertebrates

scientific article published on 24 July 2006

Interspecific variation in plumage colour among birds: species recognition or light environment?

article

Interspecific variation in the use of carotenoid-based coloration in birds: diet, life history and phylogeny

scientific article published in November 2005

Large body size in an island-dwelling bird: a microevolutionary analysis

scientific article

Large size in an island-dwelling bird: intraspecific competition and the Dominance Hypothesis

scientific article

Male-only care and classical polyandry in birds: phylogeny, ecology and sex differences in remating opportunities

scientific article

Measuring sexual selection

Microevolution in island forms: the roles of drift and directional selection in morphological divergence of a passerine bird

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Migratory behavior of birds affects their coevolutionary relationship with blood parasites

scientific article published on 24 October 2011

Mites and birds: diversity, parasitism and coevolution

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Morphological shifts in island-dwelling birds: the roles of generalist foraging and niche expansion ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2003

Mortality costs of parental care and sexual dimorphism in birds

scientific article published in 1994

NATURAL SELECTION AND QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS IN WESTERN WOMEN: A TWIN STUDY

article

One World Collection: The state of the world’s natural history collections

scientific article published in 2019

Pedigree-free animal models: the relatedness matrix reloaded

article

Quantifying Biodiversity: a Phenotypic Perspective

Rapid melting of the terminal section of the Hooker Glacier (Mt Cook National Park, New Zealand)

scientific article published in 1998

Regional variation in the historical components of global avian species richness

article

Response of Franz Josef Glacier Ka Roimata o Hine Hukatere to climate change

article

Sex differences, sex ratios and sex roles

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

Sexual dimorphism in birds: why are there so many different forms of dimorphism?

scientific article

Sexual selection, speciation and imprinting: separating the sheep from the goats

article

Sibling competition and the evolution of growth rates in birds

article

Size and stability of vertebrate leks

scientific article

Spatial turnover in the global avifauna

scientific article

Speciation and extinction drive the appearance of directional range size evolution in phylogenies and the fossil record

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Species richness among birds: body size, life history, sexual selection or ecology?

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 1999)

Species richness in agamid lizards: chance, body size, sexual selection or ecology?

scientific article

Strategic paternity assurance in the sex-role reversed Eurasian dotterel (Charadrius morinellus): behavioral and genetic evidence

scientific article published in 1995

Strong environmental determination of a carotenoid-based plumage trait is not mediated by carotenoid availability

scientific article published in July 2006

Subglacial drainage system structure and morphology of Brewster Glacier, New Zealand

article

Sympatric Speciation in Birds Is Rare: Insights from Range Data and Simulations

article by Albert B. Phillimore et al published May 2008 in The American Naturalist

Sympatric speciation in birds is rare: insights from range data and simulations

scientific article

TESTING FOR LATITUDINAL BIAS IN DIVERSIFICATION RATES: AN EXAMPLE USING NEW WORLD BIRDS

scientific article (publication date: September 2005)

The 'island rule' in birds: medium body size and its ecological explanation ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2002)

The Ecological Basis of Life History Variation in Marsupials

The comparative method in conservation biology.

scientific article published on July 2004

The environmental limits to geographic range expansion in birds

scientific article

The impact of extreme summer melt on net accumulation of an avalanche fed glacier, as determined by ground‐penetrating radar

scientific article published in 2015

The shape and temporal dynamics of phylogenetic trees arising from geographic speciation.

scientific article published on 15 October 2010

Topography, energy and the global distribution of bird species richness.

scientific article published in May 2007

Ultraviolet signals in birds are special

scientific article

Variation in extinction risk among birds: chance or evolutionary predisposition?

scientific article published in 1997

Variation in mating system among birds: ecological basis revealed by hierarchical comparative analysis of mate desertion

article

What is macroecology?

scientific article

Where is behavioural ecology going?

scientific article published on 5 April 2006

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