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Evolutionary ecology

Komdeur group - Publications

2023

Brown, T. J., Hellicar, M., Accouche, W., van der Woude, J., Dugdale, H., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. S. (2023). A major myna problem: Invasive predator removal benefits female survival and population growth of a translocated island endemic. Global Ecology and Conservation, 46, Article e02584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02584
Zheng, J., Komdeur, J., & Weissing, F. J. (2023). Effects of season length and uniparental care efficacy on the evolution of parental care. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(9), 1719-1729. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13967
Eijkelkamp, M. A., Borger, M. J., Kluit, R., & Komdeur, J. (2023). Extremely low amphibian roadkill probability on busy bicycle paths. Herpetological Journal, 33(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.33256/33.1.115
Komdeur, J., & Muller, A. (2023). Movement ecology, genetic connectivity & threats to free-roaming cheetah in South Africa. Poster session presented at Conservation Ecology Research Day, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Salazar, S. M., Hlebowicz, K., Komdeur, J., & Korsten, P. (2023). Repeatable parental risk taking across manipulated levels of predation threat: No individual variation in plasticity. Animal Behaviour, 196, 127-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.12.003
Borger, M. J., Richardson, D. S., Dugdale, H., Burke, T., & Komdeur, J. (2023). Testing the environmental buffering hypothesis of cooperative breeding in the Seychelles warbler. acta ethologica, 26, 211–224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10211-022-00408-y
Borger, M. J., Komdeur, J., Richardson, D. S., & Weissing, F. J. (2023). The estimation of reproductive values from pedigrees. Behavioral Ecology, 34(5), 850–861. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arad049
Zhang, L. (2023). The implications of adult sex ratios on evolutionary dynamics of dung beetles: Insights from Onthophagus taurus. [Thesis fully internal (DIV), University of Groningen]. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.809163169
Borger, M. J., Bauch, C., Boonekamp, J. J., & Verhulst, S. (2023). Egg size effects on nestling mass in jackdaws Corvus monedula: A cross-foster experiment. Journal of Avian Biology, 5-6, Article e03099. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03099
Borger, M. J., Weissing, F. J., & Boon, E. (2023). Human genomic data have different statistical properties than the data of randomised controlled trials. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, Article e184. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002229

2022

Cox, T., Sparks, A., Burke, T., Richardson, D. S., Komdeur, J., & Dugdale, H. (2022). Absence of the pace-of-life syndrome in a territorial passerine, Acrocephalus sechellensis. Poster session presented at European Conference on Behavioural Biology 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
Zheng, J., Zuidema, E., Zhang, Z., Guo, M., Székely, T., & Komdeur, J. (2022). A novel function of egg burial: Burying material prevents eggs rolling out of wind-swayed nests. Animal Behaviour, 189, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.04.014
Worsley, S. F., Davies, C. S., Mannarelli, M-E., Komdeur, J., Dugdale, H. L., & Richardson, D. S. (2022). Assessing the causes and consequences of gut mycobiome variation in a wild population of the Seychelles warbler. Microbiome, 10(1), Article 242. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01432-7
Caspers, B. A., Marfull, R., Dannenhaus, T., Komdeur, J., & Korsten, P. (2022). Chemical analysis reveals sex differences in the preen gland secretion of breeding Blue Tits. Journal of Ornithology, 163(1), 191-198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-021-01921-w
Zhan, X., Yu, G., Versteegh, M. A., Komdeur, J., & Korsten, P. (2022). Competition as a driver of eco-evolutionary dynamics: Linking individual aggression and environmental quality to reproductive performance - A project plan. Poster session presented at European Conference on Behavioural Biology 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
Long, X., Liu, Y., Liker, A., Weissing, F. J., Komdeur, J., & Székely, T. (2022). Does ecology and life history predict parental cooperation in birds? A comparative analysis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(7), Article 92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03195-5
van de Crommenacker, J., Hammers, M., Dugdale, H. L., Burke, T. A., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. S. (2022). Early-life conditions impact juvenile telomere length, but do not predict later life-history strategies or fitness in a wild vertebrate. Ecology and Evolution, 12(6), Article e8971. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8971
Ma, D., Ma, L., & Komdeur, J. (2022). How to divide a cake: The impact of resource distribution on life history behaviour of the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Poster session presented at European Conference on Behavioural Biology 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
Yu, G., Baas , K., Schlatmann, A. A., Salazar, S., Versteegh, M. A., Komdeur, J., & Korsten, P. (2022). Intruder sex and breeding stage influence territorial aggressiveness: But only in male not female blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). Poster session presented at European Conference on Behavioural Biology 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
Martinez Baquero, I., Yu, G., Zhan, X., Andhare, A., Versteegh, M. A., Komdeur, J., & Korsten, P. (2022). Is risk-taking behaviour consistent throughout different threats? Measuring among-individual variation in a population of blue tits. Poster session presented at European Conference on Behavioural Biology 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
Speelman, F., Hammers, M., Loonen, M. J. J. E., & Komdeur, J. (2022). Nest defence behaviour is similar between pair members but only male behaviour predicts nest survival in barnacle geese. Journal of Avian Biology, 2022(9), Article e02982. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02982
van der Velde, M., Borger, M., Johnson, L., Murphy, T., & Komdeur, J. (2022). No genetic evidence for parent–offspring relatedness in post-breeding social groups of Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus). The Wilson journal of Ornithology, 134(1), 19-26. https://doi.org/10.1676/20-00095
Schlatmann, A. A., Salazar, S. M., Yu, G., Baas , K. B., Versteegh, M. A., Komdeur, J., Caspers, B. A., & Korsten, P. (2022). Olfactory kin discrimination in begging blue tit nestlings?. Poster session presented at European Conference on Behavioural Biology 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
Borger, M., Komdeur, J., Richardson, D. S., & Weissing, F. (2022). Putting life history theory to the test: The estimation of reproductive values from field data. Poster session presented at ESEB 2022: 18th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Prague, Czech Republic.
Borger, M., Richardson, D. S., Dugdale, H., Burke, T., & Komdeur, J. (2022). Rainfall is associated with social behaviour in Seychelles warblers. Poster session presented at European Conference on Behavioural Biology 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
Sparks, A. M., Hammers, M., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., Richardson, D. S., & Dugdale, H. L. (2022). Sex-dependent effects of parental age on offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird. Evolution Letters, 6(6), 438–449. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.300
Gonzalez-Voyer, A., Thomas, G. H., Liker, A., Krüger, O., Komdeur, J., & Székely, T. (2022). Sex roles in birds: Phylogenetic analyses of the influence of climate, life histories and social environment. Ecology Letters, 25(3), 647-660. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13938
Ma, L., Versteegh, M. A., Hammers, M., & Komdeur, J. (2022). Sex-specific influence of communal breeding experience on parenting performance and fitness in a burying beetle. Royal Society Open Science, 9(2), Article 211179. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211179
Brown, T. J., Dugdale, H. L., Hammers, M., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. S. (2022). Seychelles warblers with silver spoons: Juvenile body mass is a lifelong predictor of annual survival, but not annual reproduction or senescence. Ecology and Evolution, 12(7), Article e9049. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9049
Wemer, N., Naude, V. N., van der Merwe, V. C., Smit, M., de Lange, G., & Komdeur, J. (2022). Successful predatory-avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft-release from captivity in cheetah. Ethology, 128(3), 247-256. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13261
Pant, S. R., Versteegh, M. A., Hammers, M., Burke, T., Dugdale, H. L., Richardson, D. S., & Komdeur, J. (2022). The contribution of extra-pair paternity to the variation in lifetime and age-specific male reproductive success in a socially monogamous species. Evolution, 76(5), 915-930. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14473
Kreider, J. J., Kramer, B. H., Komdeur, J., & Pen, I. (2022). The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.04.482977
Kreider, J., Kramer, B., Komdeur, J., & Pen, I. (2022). The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders. Evolution Letters, 6(6), 450-459. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.307
Contreras Osorio, R., Komdeur, J., & del Coro Arizmendi, M. (2022). When a forest becomes a city, are hummingbirds enjoying gardens good enough?. Poster session presented at European Conference on Behavioural Biology 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
Long, X. (2022). The evolution of parental sex roles. [Thesis fully internal (DIV), University of Groningen]. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.217284138
Long, X. (2022). The evolution of sex roles: New insights from individual-based simulations. Poster session presented at ESEB 2022: 18th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Prague, Czech Republic.
Zheng, J. (2022). A novel function of egg burial: Burying material prevents eggs falling out of wind-swayed nests. Poster session presented at International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress 2022, Stockholm, Sweden.
Zheng, J. (2022). Evolutionary ecology of the variable breeding system of Chinese penduline tits. [Thesis fully internal (DIV), University of Groningen]. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.249069345

2021

Brown, T. J., Spurgin, L. G., Dugdale, H. L., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., & Richardson, D. S. (2022). Causes and consequences of telomere lengthening in a wild vertebrate population. Molecular Ecology, 31(23), 5933-5945. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16059
Davies, C. S., Worsley, S. F., Maher, K. H., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., Dugdale, H. L., & Richardson, D. S. (2022). Immunogenetic variation shapes the gut microbiome in a natural vertebrate population. Microbiome, 10(1), Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01233-y
Busana, M., Childs, D. Z., Burke, T. A., Komdeur, J., Richardson, D. S., & Dugdale, H. L. (2022). Population level consequences of facultatively cooperative behaviour in a stochastic environment. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(1), 224-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13618
Busana, M., Weissing, F. J., Hammers, M., Bakker, J., Dugdale, H. L., Raj Pant, S., Richardson, D. S., Burke, T. A., & Komdeur, J. (2022). Structural equation modeling reveals determinants of fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird. Behavioral Ecology, 33(2), 352-363. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab135
Lou, Y-Q., Chen, L-J., Hu, Y-B., Komdeur, J., Sun, Y-H., & Lyu, N. (2021). Animal personality can modulate sexual conflict over offspring provisioning. Animal Behaviour, 177, 91-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.04.023
Berg, M. L., Beebe, S. C., Komdeur, J., Cardilini, A. P. A., Ribot, R. F. H., Bennett, A. T. D., & Buchanan, K. L. (2021). Author correction: Senescence of song revealed by a long-term study of the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis) (Scientific Reports, (2020), 10, 1, (20479), 10.1038/s41598-020-77405-3). Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 8658. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88215-6
Davies, C. S., Taylor, M. I., Hammers, M., Burke, T., Komdeur, J., Dugdale, H. L., & Richardson, D. S. (2021). Contemporary evolution of the innate immune receptor gene TLR3 in an isolated vertebrate population. Molecular Ecology, 30(11), 2528-2542. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15914
Worsley, S. F., Davies, C. S., Mannarelli, M-E., Hutchings, M. I., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., Dugdale, H., & Richardson, D. S. (2021). Gut microbiome composition, not alpha diversity, is associated with survival in a natural vertebrate population. Animal microbiome, 3, Article 84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-021-00149-6
Komdeur, J., & Ma, L. (2021). Keeping up with environmental change: The importance of sociality. Ethology, 127(10), 790-807. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13200
Salazar, S. M., García, J. I. C., Kuspiel, M., Fokkema, R. W., Komdeur, J., & Korsten, P. (2021). Male aggressiveness and risk-taking during reproduction are repeatable but not correlated in a wild bird population. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75(7), Article 108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03044-x
Zheng, J., Komdeur, J., Székely, T., Versteegh, M. A., Li, D., Wang, H., & Zhang, Z. (2021). Males and females of a polygamous songbird respond differently to mating opportunities. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75(4), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03000-9
Wang, W., Ma, L., Versteegh, M. A., Wu, H., & Komdeur, J. (2021). Parental Care System and Brood Size Drive Sex Difference in Reproductive Allocation: An Experimental Study on Burying Beetles. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, Article 739396. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.739396
Kingma, S. A., Bebbington, K., Teunissen, N., Peters, A., & Komdeur, J. (2021). The evolution of delayed dispersal and different routes to breeding in social birds. In M. Naguib, L. Barrett, S. D. Healy, J. Podos, L. W. Simmons, & M. Zuk (Eds.), Advances in the Study of Behavior (Vol. 53, pp. 163-224). (Advances in the Study of Behavior; Vol. 53). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.asb.2021.03.003
Taborsky, M., Cant, M. A., & Komdeur, J. (2021). The Evolution of Social Behaviour. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511894794
Busana, M. (2021). Drivers of cooperative breeding and population dynamics in Seychelles warblers. [Thesis fully internal (DIV), University of Groningen]. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.190535797
Ma, L. (2021). Eco-evolutionary routes towards animal sociality: Ecology, behaviour and communication in communal breeding of burying beetles. [Thesis fully internal (DIV), University of Groningen]. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.160350920
Caputi, K. I., Caminha, G. B., Fujimoto, S., Kohno, K., Sun, F., Egami, E., Deshmukh, S., Tang, F., Ao, Y., Bradley, L., Coe, D., Espada, D., Grillo, C., Hatsukade, B., Knudsen, K. K., Lee, M. M., Magdis, G. E., Morokuma-Matsui, K., Oesch, P., ... Zitrin, A. (2021). ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: An ALMA Galaxy Signposting a MUSE Galaxy Group at z = 4.3 Behind "El Gordo". The Astrophysical Journal, 908(2), Article 146. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abd4d0

2020

Sparks, A. M., Spurgin, L. G., van der Velde, M., Fairfield, E. A., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., Richardson, D. S., & Dugdale, H. L. (2022). Telomere heritability and parental age at conception effects in a wild avian population. Molecular Ecology, 31(23), 6324-6338. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15804
SPI (2021). Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90(9), 2147-2160. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13388
Farahani, S., Palsbøll, P. J., Pen, I., & Komdeur, J. (2021). Effects of parasites upon non-host predator avoidance behaviour in native and invasive gammarids. Parasitology, 148(3), 354-360. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182020002140
Hammers, M., Kingma, S. A., van Boheemen, L., Sparks, A. M., Burke, T., Dugdale, H., Richardson, D. S., & Komdeur, J. (2021). Helpers compensate for age-related declines in parental care and offspring survival in a cooperatively breeding bird. Evolution Letters, 5(2), 143-153. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.213
Brown, T. J., Hammers, M., Taylor, M., Dugdale, H. L., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. S. (2021). Hematocrit, age, and survival in a wild vertebrate population. Ecology and Evolution, 11(1), 214-226. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7015
van Hasselt, S. J., Mekenkamp, G-J., Komdeur, J., Allocca, G., Vyssotski, A. L., Piersma, T., Rattenborg, N. C., & Meerlo, P. (2021). Seasonal variation in sleep homeostasis in migratory geese: A rebound of NREM sleep following sleep deprivation in summer but not in winter. Sleep, 44(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsaa244
Raj Pant, S., Hammers, M., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., Dugdale, H. L., & Richardson, D. S. (2020). Age-dependent changes in infidelity in Seychelles warblers. Molecular Ecology, 29(19), 3731-3746. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15563
Lv, L., Zhang, Z., Groenewoud, F., Kingma, S. A., Li, J., van der Velde, M., & Komdeur, J. (2020). Extra-pair mating opportunities mediate parenting and mating effort trade-offs in a songbird. Behavioral Ecology, 31(2), 421-431. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz204
Berg, M. L., Beebe, S. C., Komdeur, J., Cardilini, A. P. A., Ribot, R. F. H., Bennett, A. T. D., & Buchanan, K. L. (2020). Senescence of song revealed by a long-term study of the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis). Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 20479. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77405-3
Borger, M. J., Johnson, L. E., Salazar, N. O., Dreghorn, C. L., Komdeur, J., & Murphy, T. G. (2020). The influence of social-grouping on territorial defense behavior in the black-crested titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74, Article 141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-02925-x
Long, X., & Weissing, F. J. (2020). Individual variation in parental care drives divergence of sex roles. BioRxiv. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.18.344218

2019

Hammers, M., Kingma, S. A., Spurgin, L. G., Bebbington, K. L., Dugdale, H., Burke, T., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. S. (2019). Breeders that receive help age more slowly in a cooperatively breeding bird. Nature Communications, 10, Article 1301. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09229-3
Long, X., Komdeur, J., & Weissing, F. (2019). Coevolution of sex specific parental roles and the sex ratio. Poster session presented at Netherlands Society for Evolutionary Biology Meeting 2019, Ede, Netherlands.
van Boheemen, L. A., Hammers, M., Kingma, S. A., Richardson, D. S., Burke, T., Komdeur, J., & Dugdale, H. L. (2019). Compensatory and additive helper effects in the cooperatively breeding Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis). Ecology and Evolution, 9(5), 2986-2995. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4982
Zhao, Q., Hammers, M., Li, C., Zeng, X., Hao, C., Lu, X., & Komdeur, J. (2019). Egg investment in response to helper presence in cooperatively breeding Tibetan ground tits. Journal of Avian Biology, 50(6), Article 02075. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02075
Groenewoud, F., Kingma, S. A., Bebbington, K., Richardson, D. S., & Komdeur, J. (2019). Experimentally induced antipredator responses are mediated by social and environmental factors. Behavioral Ecology, 30(4), 986-992. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz039
Komdeur, J., & Koenig, W. D. (2019). Helpers and reproductive behavior in birds and mammals. In Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (2 ed., pp. 490-497). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.01282-6
Pogany, A., Morvai, B., Krause, E. T., Kitsios, E., Boehm, T., Ruploh, T., von Engelhardt, N., Szekely, T., Komdeur, J., Miklosi, A., & Krueger, O. (2019). Short- and long-term social effects of parental sex roles in Zebra finches. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, Article 294. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00294
Song, Z., Zou, Y., Hu, C., Ye, Y., Wang, C., Qing, B., Komdeur, J., & Ding, C. (2019). Silver spoon effects of hatching order in an asynchronous hatching bird. Behavioral Ecology, 30(2), 509-517. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary191
Raj Pant, S., Komdeur, J., Burke, T. A., Dugdale, H. L., & Richardson, D. S. (2019). Socio-ecological conditions and female infidelity in the Seychelles warbler. Behavioral Ecology, 30(5), 1254-1264. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz072
Green, R. E., Brekke, P., Ward, H., Slaymaker, M., van der Velde, M., Komdeur, J., & Dugdale, H. L. (2019). Use of microsatellite-based paternity assignment to establish where Corn Crake Crex crex chicks are at risk from mechanized mowing. Ibis, 161(4), 890-894. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12724
Cui, S. F., Wang, L., Ma, L., Wang, Y. L., Qiu, J. P., Liu, Z. C., & Geng, X. Q. (2019). Comparative transcriptome analyses of adzuki bean weevil (Callosobruchus chinensis) response to hypoxia and hypoxia/hypercapnia. Bulletin of entomological research, 109(2), 266-277. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485318000512
Raj Pant, S. (2019). Understanding the evolution of infidelity using the Seychelles warbler system. [Thesis fully internal (DIV), University of Groningen, University of East Anglia]. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.108086950

2018

Vos, W., Komdeur, J., & Hammers, M. (2019). Frequency-dependent resemblance of male-colored females to males in a damselfly. Insect Science, 26(5), 958-962. https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.12584
McClelland, S. C., Durães Ribeiro, R., Mielke, H. W., Finkelstein, M. E., Gonzales, C. R., Jones, J. A., Komdeur, J., Derryberry, E., Saltzberg, E. B., & Karubian, J. (2019). Sub-lethal exposure to lead is associated with heightened aggression in an urban songbird. The Science of the Total Environment, 654, 593-603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.145
Lv, L., Li, J., Kingma, S. A., Gao, C., Wang, Y., Komdeur, J., & Zhang, Z. (2018). Do hair-crested drongos reduce prospective territory competition by dismantling their nest after breeding? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-017-2422-1
Edwards, H. A., Dugdale, H. L., Richardson, D. S., Komdeur, J., & Burke, T. (2018). Extra-pair parentage and personality in a cooperatively breeding bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72(3), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2448-z
van den Brink, N. W., Scheiber, I. B. R., de Jong, M. E., Braun, A., Arini, A., Basu, N., van den Berg, H., Komdeur, J., & Loonen, M. J. J. E. (2018). Mercury associated neurochemical response in Arctic barnacle goslings (Branta leucopsis). Science of the Total Environment, 624, 1052-1058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.191
Teunissen, N., Kingma, S. A., Hall, M. L., Aranzamendi, N. H., Komdeur, J., & Peters, A. (2018). More than kin: Subordinates foster strong bonds with relatives and potential mates in a social bird. Behavioral Ecology, 29(6), 1316-1324. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary120
Spurgin, L. G., Bebbington, K., Fairfield, E. A., Hammers, M., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., Dugdale, H. L., & Richardson, D. S. (2018). Spatio-temporal variation in lifelong telomere dynamics in a long-term ecological study. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87(1), 187-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12741
Scheiber, I. B. R., Weiß, B. M., de Jong, M. E., Braun, A., van den Brink, N. W., Loonen, M. J. J. E., Millesi, E., & Komdeur, J. (2018). Stress behaviour and physiology of developing Arctic barnacle goslings (Branta leucopsis) is affected by legacy trace contaminants. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 285(1893), Article 20181866. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1866
Groenewoud, F., Kingma, S. A., Hammers, M., Dugdale, H. L., Burke, T., Richardson, D. S., & Komdeur, J. (2018). Subordinate females in the cooperatively breeding Seychelles warbler obtain direct benefits by joining unrelated groups. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87(5), 1251-1263. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12849
Langenhof, M. R., & Komdeur, J. (2018). Why and how the early-life environment affects development of coping behaviours. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72(3), Article 34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2452-3

2017

Bebbington, K., Fairfield, E. A., Spurgin, L. G., Kingma, S. A., Dugdale, H., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. (2018). Joint care can outweigh costs of nonkin competition in communal breeders. Behavioral Ecology, 29(1), 169-178. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx137
Komdeur, J., Székely, T., Long, X., & Kingma, S. A. (2017). Adult sex ratios and their implications for cooperative breeding in birds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 372(1729), Article 20160322. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0322
Rossi, M., Marfull, R., Golueke, S., Komdeur, J., Korsten, P., & Caspers, B. A. (2017). Begging blue tit nestlings discriminate between the odour of familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics. Functional Ecology, 31(9), 1761-1769. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12886
Zhang, G., Zhao, Q., Moller, A. P., Komdeur, J., & Lu, X. (2017). Climate predicts which sex acts as helpers among cooperatively breeding bird species. Biology Letters, 13(1), Article 20160863. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0863
Bebbington, K., Spurgin, L. G., Fairfield, E. A., Dugdale, H. L., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., & Richardson, D. S. (2017). Corrigendum: Telomere length reveals cumulative individual and transgenerational inbreeding effects in a passerine bird (vol 25, pg 2949, 2016). Molecular Ecology, 26(13), 3585-3586. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13993
Scheiber, I., de Jong, M., Komdeur, J., Pschernig, E., Loonen, M. J. J. E., Millesi, E., & Weiss, B. M. (2017). Diel pattern of corticosterone metabolites in Arctic barnacle goslings (Branta leucopsis) under continuous natural light. PLoS ONE, 12(8), Article e0182861. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182861
Kingma, S. A., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., & Richardson, D. S. (2017). Differential dispersal costs and sex-biased dispersal distance in a cooperatively breeding bird. Behavioral Ecology, 28(4), 1113-1121. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx075
Amininasab, S. M., Xu, C. C. Y., Kingma, S. A., & Komdeur, J. (2017). Effect of tree logging on reproductive performance in Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). Journal of Ornithology, 158(1), 339-344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-016-1393-8
Badas, E. P., Martinez, J., Rivero-de Aguilar, J., Stevens, M., van der Velde, M., Komdeur, J., & Merino, S. (2017). Eggshell pigmentation in the blue tit: Male quality matters. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71(3), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-017-2286-4
de Jong, M., Scheiber, I. B. R., Brink, N. W. V. D., Braun, A., Matson, K., Komdeur, J., & Loonen, M. J. J. E. (2017). Indices of stress and immune function in Arctic barnacle goslings (Branta leucopsis) were impacted by social isolation but not a contaminated grazing environment. Science of the Total Environment, 601, 132-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.183
Bebbington, K., Kingma, S. A., Fairfield, E. A., Dugdale, H. L., Komdeur, J., Spurgin, L. G., & Richardson, D. S. (2017). Kinship and familiarity mitigate costs of social conflict between Seychelles warbler neighbors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 114(43), E9036-E9045. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1704350114
van de Crommenacker, J., Hammers, M., van der Woude, J., Louter, M., Santema, P., Richardson, D., & Komdeur, J. (2017). Oxidative status and fitness components in the Seychelles warbler. Functional Ecology, 31(6), 1210-1219. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12861
Hinsch, M., & Komdeur, J. (2017). Punish the thief: Coevolution of defense and cautiousness stabilizes ownership. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71(7), Article 102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-017-2330-4
de Jong, B., Lens, L., van der Velde, M., Korsten, P., Groothuis, T., & Komdeur, J. (2017). Testosterone reduces promiscuity of female Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus): An experimental study. Ethology, 123(1), 69-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12574
Amininasab, S. M., Birker, M., Kingma, S. A., Hildenbrandt, H., & Komdeur, J. (2017). The effect of male incubation feeding on female nest attendance and reproductive performance in a socially monogamous bird. Journal of Ornithology, 158(3), 687-696. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-016-1427-2
Komdeur, J., Richardson, D. S., Hammers, M., Eikenaar, C., Brouwer, L., & Kingma, S. A. (2017). The Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates. In eLS (pp. 1-11). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0021218.pub2
Scheiber, I. B. R., Weiß, B. M., Kingma, S. A., & Komdeur, J. (2017). The importance of the altricial – precocial spectrum for social complexity in mammals and birds: A review. Frontiers in Zoology, 14(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-016-0185-6
Gilroy, D. L., van Oosterhout, C., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. S. (2017). Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the endangered Seychelles warbler. Animal Conservation, 20(3), 235-250. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12307
Hinsch, M., & Komdeur, J. (2017). What do territory owners defend against? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 284(1849), Article 20162356. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2356

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Bebbington, K., Kingma, S. A., Fairfield, E. A., Spurgin, L. G., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. S. (2017). Consequences of sibling rivalry vary across life in a passerine bird. Behavioral Ecology, 28(2), 407-418. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw167
Feare, C. J., van der Woude, J., Greenwell, P., Edwards, H. A., Taylor, J. A., Larose, C. S., Ahlen, P-A., West, J., Chadwick, W., Pandey, S., Raines, K., Garcia, F., Komdeur, J., & de Groene, A. (2017). Eradication of common mynas Acridotheres tristis from Denis Island, Seychelles. Pest management science, 73(2), 295-304. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.4263
Amininasab, S. M., Hammers, M., Vedder, O., Komdeur, J., & Korsten, P. (2017). No effect of partner age and lifespan on female age‐specific reproductive performance in blue tits. Journal of Avian Biology, 48(4), 544-551. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.00970
Komdeur, J., Burke, T., Dugdale, H., & Richardson, D. S. (2016). 12- Seychelles warblers: Complexities of the helping paradox. In W. D. Koenig, & J. L. Dickinson (Eds.), Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates: Studies of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (pp. 197-216). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338357.013
Hammers, M., Komdeur, J., Kingma, S. A., Hutchings, K., Fairfield, E. A., Gilroy, D. L., & Richardson, D. S. (2016). Age-specific haemosporidian infection dynamics and survival in Seychelles warblers. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 29720. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep29720
Komdeur, J., van der Velde, M., & Korsten, P. (2016). Are extra-pair young of higher quality? Pan European Networks: Science & Technology, 20, 240-243.
Amininasab, S. M., Kingma, S. A., Birker, M., Hildenbrandt, H., & Komdeur, J. (2016). The effect of ambient temperature, habitat quality and individual age on incubation behaviour and incubation feeding in a socially monogamous songbird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70(9), 1591-1600. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2167-2
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