Search filters

List of works by Rita Covas

A cross-fostering experiment reveals that prenatal environment affects begging behaviour in a cooperative breeder

Age and relatedness have an interactive effect on the feeding behaviour of helpers in cooperatively breeding sociable weavers

article published in 2011

Antagonistic effect of helpers on breeding male and female survival in a cooperatively breeding bird

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

Climate, social factors and research disturbance influence population dynamics in a declining sociable weaver metapopulation

scientific article

Cooperation and communication networks

scientific article published on 21 August 2007

Deep learning‐based methods for individual recognition in small birds

scientific article published on 26 July 2020

Disentangling climatic and nest predator impact on reproductive output reveals adverse high‐temperature effects regardless of helper number in an arid‐region cooperative bird

scientific article published in 2021

Dominance hierarchies and associated signalling in a cooperative passerine

scientific article published in 2014

Evolution of reproductive life histories in island birds worldwide ⬇️

scientific article published on November 9, 2011

Experimental evidence of a link between breeding conditions and the decision to breed or to help in a colonial cooperative bird

article

Females pay the oxidative cost of dominance in a highly social bird

article published in 2018

Global phylogeographic limits of Hawaii's avian malaria

scientific article published in December 2006

Helping has signalling characteristics in a cooperatively breeding bird

Host associations and evolutionary relationships of avian blood parasites from West Africa

scientific article published on 26 July 2008

How to make methodological decisions when inferring social networks

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Kin associations and direct vs indirect fitness benefits in colonial cooperatively breeding sociable weavers Philetairus socius

scientific article published in 2006

Life history and the evolution of family living in birds

scientific article published in June 2007

Limitations of population models in predicting climate change effects: a simulation study of sociable weavers in southern Africa

article

Maternal allocation in relation to weather, predation and social factors in a colonial cooperative bird

scientific article published in 2021

Maternal effects in relation to helper presence in the cooperatively breeding sociable weaver

scientific article

NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF NATURAL SELECTION ON A QUANTITATIVE TRAIT USING MARK-RECAPTURE DATA

Nonparametric estimation of natural selection on a quantitative trait using mark-recapture data.

scientific article

Stabilizing selection on body mass in the sociable weaver Philetairus socius

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2002)

The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis

scientific article published in May 2023

The effect of helpers on artificially increased brood size in sociable weavers (Philetairus socius)

scientific article published in 2004

The effect of helpers on the postfledging period in a cooperatively breeding bird, the sociable weaver

The evolution of birdsong on islands

scientific article

The risk of flawed inference in evolutionary studies when detectability is less than one.

scientific article published in September 2008

The theory of island biogeography and soundscapes: Species diversity and the organization of acoustic communities

scientific article published in 2019

The thermoregulatory benefits of the communal nest of sociable weaversPhiletairus sociusare spatially structured within nests

article published in 2013

Unexpected sex ratio adjustment in a colonial cooperative bird: pairs with helpers produce more of the helping sex whereas pairs without helpers do not

scientific article published in 2004

Paulina is supported by:

About Paulina

Help