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List of works by Claire N. Spottiswoode

A brood parasite selects for its own egg traits

scientific article published on 21 August 2013

A stab in the dark: chick killing by brood parasitic honeyguides ⬇️

scientific article published on September 7, 2011

Ancient host specificity within a single species of brood parasitic bird

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

Brain size and morphology of the brood-parasitic and cerophagous honeyguides (Aves: Piciformes).

scientific article published on 24 April 2013

Breeding decisions and output are correlated with both temperature and rainfall in an arid-region passerine, the sociable weaver.

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

Camouflage predicts survival in ground-nesting birds

scientific article

Carotenoid-based plumage coloration reflects hemoparasite infection and local survival in breeding great tits

scientific article published on January 2001

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

scientific article

Compensatory Breeding in Years Following Drought in a Desert-Dwelling Cooperative Breeder

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Convergent evolution of reduced eggshell conductance in avian brood parasites

article

Coupled range dynamics of brood parasites and their hosts responding to climate and vegetation changes.

scientific article

Culturally determined interspecies communication between humans and honeyguides

scientific article published on 07 December 2023

Dehydration risk, not ambient incubation, limits nest attendance at high temperatures

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Does coevolution with a shared parasite drive hosts to partition their defences among species?

scientific article published in May 2017

Escape Distance in Ground-Nesting Birds Differs with Individual Level of Camouflage.

scientific article

Evolution of Yolk Androgens in Birds: Development, Coloniality, and Sexual Dichromatism

article

Evolution. How cooperation defeats cheats

scientific article published in December 2013

Facilitation and competition shape a geographical mosaic of flower colour polymorphisms

scientific article published in 2021

Fine-scale genetic structure reflects sex-specific dispersal strategies in a population of sociable weavers (Philetairus socius).

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Fine-scale life-history variation in sociable weavers in relation to colony size

scientific article published on 2 December 2008

Genetic similarity and hatching success in birds

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

High temperatures drive offspring mortality in a cooperatively breeding bird

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Higher-level pattern features provide additional information to birds when recognizing and rejecting parasitic eggs

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Host-parasite arms races and rapid changes in bird egg appearance

scientific article

Hosts elevate either within-clutch consistency or between-clutch distinctiveness of egg phenotypes in defence against brood parasites

scientific article published on 23 June 2021

Hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved egg signatures with elevated information content.

scientific article published in July 2015

Hot droughts compromise interannual survival across all group sizes in a cooperatively breeding bird

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences

scientific article published on 13 April 2011

Improvement of individual camouflage through background choice in ground-nesting birds.

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Maternal effects in the highly communal sociable weaver may exacerbate brood reduction and prepare offspring for a competitive social environment

scientific article published on 5 September 2012

Maternal effects mediated by antioxidants and the evolution of carotenoid-based signals in birds

scientific article

Maternal immune factors and the evolution of secondary sexual characters

scientific article published in 2007

Migration distance does not predict blood parasitism in a migratory songbird

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Multimodal mimicry of hosts in a radiation of parasitic finches

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Nest covering in plovers: How modifying the visual environment influences egg camouflage

scientific article

Phenotypic sorting in morphology and reproductive investment among sociable weaver colonies

scientific article published on 9 September 2007

Post-pollination barriers enable coexistence of pollinator-sharing ornithophilous Erica species

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Reciprocal signaling in honeyguide-human mutualism

scientific article

Rediscovery of a long-lost lark reveals the conspecificity of endangered Heteromirafra populations in the Horn of Africa

Relative advantages of dichromatic and trichromatic color vision in camouflage breaking

scientific article published on 4 February 2017

Repeated targeting of the same hosts by a brood parasite compromises host egg rejection

scientific article published on January 2013

Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation

scientific article published on 9 June 2022

Seasonal rainfall at long-term migratory staging sites is associated with altered carry-over effects in a Palearctic-African migratory bird.

scientific article

Sexual selection predicts advancement of avian spring migration in response to climate change

scientific article published in December 2006

The coevolutionary biology of brood parasitism: a call for integration

article

The discovery, biodiversity and conservation of Mabu forest—the largest medium-altitude rainforest in southern Africa

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

The ecology and evolution of human‐wildlife cooperation

scientific article published on 20 June 2022

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

The most perfect thing, explained

scientific article

The sight of an adult brood parasite near the nest is an insufficient cue for a honeyguide host to reject foreign eggs

scientific article

Visual complexity of egg patterns predicts egg rejection according to Weber's law

scientific article published in 2022

Vive la difference! Self/non-self recognition and the evolution of signatures of identity in arms races with parasites

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Why Do Migratory Birds Sing on Their Tropical Wintering Grounds?

scientific article

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