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| Michael ClinchySummaryAffiliation: University of Western Ontario Country: Canada Publications
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Body size, age and paternity in common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)M Clinchy
Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B C, Canada V6T 1Z4
Mol Ecol 13:195-202. 2004..It is suggested that a sedentary lifestyle and longevity are the key elements constraining selection for greater sexual size dimorphism in this 'model' medium-sized Australian marsupial herbivore...
Balancing food and predator pressure induces chronic stress in songbirdsMichael Clinchy
Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 271:2473-9. 2004....
Combined food and predator effects on songbird nest survival and annual reproductive success: results from a bi-factorial experimentLiana Zanette
Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5B7 London, Ontario, Canada
Oecologia 147:632-40. 2006..We highlight the parallels between our results and those from a comparable bi-factorial experiment on mammals because we suspect combined food and predator effects are likely the norm in both birds and mammals...
Perceived predation risk reduces the number of offspring songbirds produce per yearLiana Y Zanette
Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
Science 334:1398-401. 2011..Our results suggest that the perception of predation risk is itself powerful enough to affect wildlife population dynamics, and should thus be given greater consideration in vertebrate conservation and management...
Food-supplementing parents reduces their sons' song repertoire sizeLiana Zanette
Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 276:2855-60. 2009..Conceivably, the conservation benefits of food-supplementing populations could attenuate over time if fed parents produce offspring of poorer quality than themselves...
Multiple measures elucidate glucocorticoid responses to environmental variation in predation threatMichael Clinchy
Department of Biology, University of Victoria, P O Box 3020, Station CSC, Victoria, BC, V8W 3N5, Canada
Oecologia 166:607-14. 2011....
Synergistic effects of food and predators on annual reproductive success in song sparrowsLiana Zanette
Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 270:799-803. 2003..These results are a cause for optimism for avian conservation because they demonstrate that remedial actions, aimed at simultaneously augmenting food and reducing predators, can produce dramatic increases in reproductive success...
Food and predators affect egg production in song sparrowsLiana Zanette
Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
Ecology 87:2459-67. 2006..We suggest that combined food and predator effects on demography could be the norm in both birds and mammals...
Do stable isotopes reflect nutritional stress? Results from a laboratory experiment on song sparrowsBethany Kempster
Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada
Oecologia 151:365-71. 2007....
Food supplementation leads to bottom-up and top-down food-host-parasite interactionsLiana Zanette
Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada
J Anim Ecol 79:1172-80. 2010..One of the conservation implications of our results is that greater food availability may not provide hosts a respite from brood parasitism, but is, nonetheless, beneficial overall...
Sheep in wolf's clothing: host nestling vocalizations resemble their cowbird competitor'sKatie Pagnucco
Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont, Canada N6A 5B7
Proc Biol Sci 275:1061-5. 2008..Our results support the recently proposed hypothesis that signalling in parasitized nests involves a dynamic interaction between parasitic and host nestlings, rather than a one-way process of mimicry by the parasite...
The Neurological Ecology of Fear: Insights Neuroscientists and Ecologists Have to Offer one AnotherMichael Clinchy
Department of Biology, University of Victoria Victoria, BC, Canada
Front Behav Neurosci 4:21. 2010..We outline the approaches taken in the lab that appear most readily translatable to the field, and detail the advantages that studying animals in the wild can offer researchers investigating the "predator model of PTSD."..
