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List of works by Claire Doutrelant

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

Assessing multivariate constraints to evolution across ten long-term avian studies

scientific article

Assortative mating by colored ornaments in blue tits: space and time matter

scientific article published on 26 February 2017

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

Can eggs in a cavity be a female secondary sexual signal? Male nest visits and modelling of egg visual discrimination in blue tits

scientific article

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

scientific article

Clutch-size variation in Western Palaearctic secondary hole-nesting passerine birds in relation to nest box design

scientific article published in 2014

Colouration in Atlantic puffins and blacklegged kittiwakes: monochromatism and links to body condition in both sexes

Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: the SPI-Birds data hub

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Contrasting associations between nestling telomere length and pre and postnatal helpers’ presence in a cooperatively breeding bird

scientific article published on 16 April 2021

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

Diversity and composition of cultivable gut bacteria in an endemic island bird and its mainland sister species

article

Dominance hierarchies and associated signalling in a cooperative passerine

scientific article published in 2014

Eggshell spottiness reflects maternally transferred antibodies in blue tits

scientific article

Examining the link between relaxed predation and bird coloration on islands

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

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

article

Female blue tits with brighter yellow chests transfer more carotenoids to their eggs after an immune challenge.

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

Female plumage coloration is sensitive to the cost of reproduction. An experiment in blue tits

scientific article

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

article published in 2018

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

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Helpers in colonial cooperatively breeding sociable weavers Philetairus socius contribute to buffer the effects of adverse breeding conditions

scientific article published in 2008

Helping has signalling characteristics in a cooperatively breeding bird

How to make methodological decisions when inferring social networks

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Insularity effects on bird immune parameters: A comparison between island and mainland populations in West Africa

scientific article

Insularity effects on the assemblage of the blood parasite community of the birds from the Gulf of Guinea.

scientific article

Interspecific variation in the relationship between clutch size, laying date and intensity of urbanization in four species of hole-nesting birds.

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2006

Kittiwake eggs viewed by conspecifics and predators: implications for colour signal evolution

scientific article published in 2017

Mate preference of female blue tits varies with experimental photoperiod

scientific 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

Mediterranean blue tits as a case study of local adaptation

scientific article

Mutual mate preferences and assortative mating in relation to a carotenoid-based color trait in blue tits

scientific article published in 2021

Patterns of bird song evolution on islands support the character release hypothesis in tropical but not in temperate latitudes

scientific article published in 2021

Pygmy Falcon predation of nestlings of their obligate host, the Sociable Weaver

scientific article (publication date: December 2004)

Testing hypotheses in evolutionary ecology with imperfect detection: capture-recapture structural equation modeling

scientific article

Testing the Sexual and Social Benefits of Cooperation in Animals

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

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 intensity threshold of colour vision in a passerine bird, the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).

scientific article

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

Timing of Prospecting and the Value of Information in a Colonial Breeding Bird

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

Variation in clutch size in relation to nest size in birds.

scientific article

Worldwide patterns of bird colouration on islands

scientific article