Robert P FreckletonSummaryAffiliation: University of Oxford Country: UK Publications
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Amelioration of biodiversity impacts of genetically modified crops: predicting transient versus long-term effectsR P Freckleton
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
Proc Biol Sci 271:325-31. 2004..This strategy could benefit weeds in both genetically modified (GM) and non-GM crops, but would probably lead to reduced inputs in GM systems compared with conventional ones...- Honesty and cheating in cleaning symbioses: evolutionarily stable strategies defined by variable pay-offsRobert P Freckleton
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Proc Biol Sci 270:299-305. 2003..This indicates that the underlying mutualistic nature of some interspecific interactions may be difficult to demonstrate using simple manipulation experiments... 
Bergmann's rule and body size in mammalsRobert P Freckleton
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
Am Nat 161:821-5. 2003- Ecology. Deciding the future of GM crops in EuropeR P Freckleton
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Science 302:994-6. 2003 - Phylogenetic evidence for deleterious mutation load in RNA viruses and its contribution to viral evolutionOliver G Pybus
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Mol Biol Evol 24:845-52. 2007..From this relationship, we propose an empirical threshold for the maximum viable deleterious mutation load in RNA viruses... - Pathogens, density dependence and the coexistence of tropical treesRobert P Freckleton
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 273:2909-16. 2006.... - Ecology. Population dynamics: growing to extremesJohn D Reynolds
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Science 309:567-8. 2005 - Evolutionary transitions in parental care and live bearing in vertebratesJohn D Reynolds
School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 357:269-81. 2002.... - Biogeographical basis of recent phenotypic divergence among birds: a global study of subspecies richnessAlbert B Phillimore
Division of Biology and Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
Evolution 61:942-57. 2007..Overall, we demonstrate that biogeographic models can explain about 30% of the global variation in subspecies richness in birds... - Should conservation strategies consider spatial generality? Farmland birds show regional not national patterns of habitat associationMark J Whittingham
Division of Biology, School of Biology and Psychology, Ridley Building, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
Ecol Lett 10:25-35. 2007..Our study has broad implications for designing conservation strategies at an appropriate scale, which we discuss... - Abundance-occupancy dynamics in a human dominated environment: linking interspecific and intraspecific trends in British farmland and woodland birdsThomas J Webb
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
J Anim Ecol 76:123-34. 2007..These species-specific changes are the driver of the observed changes in the form and strength of the interspecific relationship... 
Detecting non-Brownian trait evolution in adaptive radiationsRobert P Freckleton
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
PLoS Biol 4:e373. 2006..In one case, the patterns revealed do not accord with Brownian motion but show characteristics expected under certain niche-filling models...- Census error and the detection of density dependenceRobert P Freckleton
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
J Anim Ecol 75:837-51. 2006..However, it seems likely that these may lack power compared with analyses that are able to explicitly include census error and we review some recently developed methods... - Why do we still use stepwise modelling in ecology and behaviour?Mark J Whittingham
Division of Biology, School of Biology and Psychology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
J Anim Ecol 75:1182-9. 2006..In particular, the IT approach identifies large numbers of competing models that could describe the data equally well, showing that no one model should be relied upon for inference... - Ecology predicts large-scale patterns of phylogenetic diversification in birdsAlbert B Phillimore
Division of Biology and Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
Am Nat 168:220-9. 2006..Taken together, these results suggest that large-scale patterns in avian diversification can be explained by variation in intrinsic biology... - Comparative analyses of the influence of developmental mode on phenotypic diversification rates in shorebirdsGavin H Thomas
Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Proc Biol Sci 273:1619-24. 2006..Thus, less demanding offspring appear to facilitate rapid evolution of breeding systems and some sexually selected traits... - Plant pathogens drive density-dependent seedling mortality in a tropical treeThomas Bell
Ecol Lett 9:569-74. 2006..If such effects are widespread, plant pathogens may play a key role in maintaining and structuring tropical diversity... - Phenotypic plasticity in the scaling of avian basal metabolic rateAndrew E McKechnie
DST NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa
Proc Biol Sci 273:931-7. 2006..The finding that metabolic scaling in birds is partly determined by environmental factors provides further support for models that predict variation in scaling exponents, such as the allometric cascade model... - Sexual selection explains Rensch's rule of size dimorphism in shorebirdsTamás Székely
Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:12224-7. 2004.... - Demographic threats to the sustainability of Brazil nut exploitationCarlos A Peres
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Science 302:2112-4. 2003..Without management, intensively harvested populations will succumb to a process of senescence and demographic collapse, threatening this cornerstone of the Amazonian extractive economy... - Relative testis size and sperm morphometry across mammals: no evidence for an association between sperm competition and sperm lengthMatthew J G Gage
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Proc Biol Sci 270:625-32. 2003..Results, therefore, indicate that sperm competition does not select for longer or shorter sperm across mammals, and alternative forces selecting on sperm form and function are discussed... 
Relating traits to diversification: a simple testRobert P Freckleton
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Am Nat 172:102-15. 2008..Clearly, there are inherent limitations in using only data on extant species to infer correlates of extinction; however, this approach is potentially a powerful tool in analyzing correlates of speciation...