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List of works by Terry J Ord

Adaptation and plasticity of animal communication in fluctuating environments.

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Alert signals enhance animal communication in "noisy" environments

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Conspicuous animal signals avoid the cost of predation by being intermittent or novel: confirmation in the wild using hundreds of robotic prey

scientific article published on 09 June 2021

Contrasting theory with the empirical data of species recognition

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Crossing extreme habitat boundaries: Jack‐of‐all‐trades facilitates invasion but is eroded by adaptation to a master‐of‐one

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Dawn and dusk "chorus" in visually communicating Jamaican anole lizards

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Deep‐time convergent evolution in animal communication presented by shared adaptations for coping with noise in lizards and other animals

scientific article published on 30 June 2021

Ecological Release from Aquatic Predation Is Associated with the Emergence of Marine Blenny Fishes onto Land

scientific article published on 2 March 2017

Ecology and signal evolution in lizards

Evolutionary loss of complexity in animal signals: cause and consequence

scientific article published on 14 December 2022

Factors leading to the evolution and maintenance of a male ornament in territorial species

article published in 2011

Fossils and phylogeny uncover the evolutionary history of a unique antipredator behaviour.

scientific article published on 2 September 2010

Gliding lizards use the position of the sun to enhance social display.

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Habitat partitioning and morphological differentiation: the Southeast Asian Draco lizards and Caribbean Anolis lizards compared

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Historical contingency and behavioural divergence in territorial Anolis lizards

scientific article published on August 3, 2012

How populations differentiate despite gene flow: sexual and natural selection drive phenotypic divergence within a land fish, the Pacific leaping blenny

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Individual, sexual, seasonal, and temporal variation in the amount of sagebrush lizard scent marks

journal article published in 2006

Interactive video playback and opponent assessment in lizards

scientific article published on August 2002

Is sociality required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups.

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Key innovations and island colonization as engines of evolutionary diversification: a comparative test with the Australasian diplodactyloid geckos

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Lizards speed up visual displays in noisy motion habitats.

scientific article published in April 2007

Manipulation of habitat isolation and area implicates deterministic factors and limited neutrality in community assembly.

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Many Paths to a Common Destination: Morphological Differentiation of a Functionally Convergent Visual Signal

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Marked colour divergence in the gliding membranes of a tropical lizard mirrors population differences in the colour of falling leaves.

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Ornament size and colour as alternative strategies for effective communication in gliding lizards.

scientific article published on 28 May 2016

Population Variation in the Life History of a Land Fish, Alticus arnoldorum, and the Effects of Predation and Density.

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Repeated evolution and the impact of evolutionary history on adaptation

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Repeated evolution of amphibious behavior in fish and its implications for the colonization of novel environments.

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Repeated evolution of exaggerated dewlaps and other throat morphology in lizards

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

Revisiting the cost of carnivory in mammals.

scientific article published on 10 July 2016

Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity.

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Species identity cues in animal communication

scientific article published in October 2009

The Evolution of Alternative Adaptive Strategies for Effective Communication in Noisy Environments

scientific article published on November 30, 2010

The social network and communicative complexity: preface to theme issue

scientific article published on July 5, 2012

Understanding the Spatial Scale of Genetic Connectivity at Sea: Unique Insights from a Land Fish and a Meta-Analysis

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