Additional Publications by Bird Population Studies Staff

Research articles published independently of the Lab.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Population Studies staff are indicated in boldface.

Hochachka, W.M., Martin, K., Doyle, F., and C.J. Krebs. 2000. Censusing vertebrate populations using observational data. Canadian Journal of Zoology. in press.

Artiss, T., W.M. Hochachka, and K. Martin. 1999. Female foraging and male vigilance in White-tailed Ptarmigan (Lagopus leucurus): opportunism or behavioural coordination? Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 46:429-434.

Dhondt A.A., F. Adriaensen. 1999. Experiments on competition between Great and Blue Tit: Effects on Blue Tit reproductive success and population processes. Ostrich 70:39-48.

Hochachka, W.M., T.E. Martin, V. Artman, C.R. Smith, S.J. Hejl, D.E. Andersen, D.R. Curson, L. Petit, N.E. Mathews, T. Donovan, E.E. Klaas, P.B. Wood, J.C. Manolis, K.P. McFarland, J.V. Nichols, J.C. Bednarz, D.M. Evans, J.P. Duguay, S. Garner, J. Tewksbury, K.L. Purcell, J. Faaborg, C.B. Goguen, C. Rimmer, R. Dettmers, M. Knutson, J.A. Collazo, L. Garner, D. Whitehead, G. Geupel. 1999. Scale dependence in the effects of forest coverage on parasitization by brown-headed cowbirds. in Partners in Flight Cowbird Symposium on Research and Management of the Brown-headed Cowbird in Western and Eastern Landscapes (M. E. Morrison, ed.). Studies in Avian Biology 18:80-88.

Nour, N., R. Van Damme, E. Matthysen, A.A. Dhondt. 1999. Forest birds in forest fragments: are fragmentation effects independent of season? Bird Study 46:279-288.

Adriaensen F, A.A. Dhondt, S. Van Dongen, L. Lens, E. Matthysen. 1998. Stabilizing selection on blue tit fledgling mass in the presence of sparrowhawks. proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 265: 1011-1016

Adriaensen F, N. Verwimp, A.A. Dhondt. 1998. Between cohort variation in dispersal distance in the European Kestrel Falco tinnunculus as shown by ringing recoveries. Ardea 86: 147-152.

Dhondt A.A., B. Kempenaers B, J. Clobert. 1998. Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus predation and Blue Tit Parus caeruleus adult annual survival rate. Ibis 140:580-584.

Kempenaers B, F. Adriaensen, A.A. Dhondt. 1998. Inbreeding and divorce in blue and great tits. Animal Behaviour 56:737-740.

Nour N, D. Currie, E. Matthysen, R. Van Damme, A.A. Dhondt. 1998. Effects of habitat fragmentation on provisioning rates, diet and breeding success in two pecies of tit (great tit and blue tit). Oecologia (Berlin) 114: 522-530.

Van Dongen S, T. Backeljau, E. Matthysen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1998. Genetic population structure of the winter moth (Operophtera brumata L.) (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) in a fragmented landscape. Heredity 80: 92-100.

Van Dongen S, E. Matthysen, E. Sprengers, and A.A. Dhondt. 1998. Mate selection by male winter moths Operophtera brumata (Lepidoptera, Geometridae): adaptive male choice or female control? Behaviour 135:29-42.

Christman B.J., and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. Nest predation in black-capped chickadees: How safe are cavity nests? Auk 114:769-773.

Kempenaers, B., G.R. Verheyen and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. Extrapair paternity in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus): female choice, male characteristics and offspring quality. Behavioral Ecology 8: 481-492.

Lens L., S. Van Dongen, M. Van den Broeck, C. Van Broeckhoven, and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. Why female crested tits copulate repeatedly with the same partner: evidence for the mate assessment hypothesis. Behavioural Ecology 8: 87-91.

Nour, N., E. Matthysen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. Effects of habitat fragmentation on foraging behaviour of tits and related species: does niche space vary in relation to size and degree of isolation of forest fragments? Ecography 20: 281-286.

Nour N, J. Suhonen, R. Van Damme, E. Matthysen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. Does the dominant Nuthatch Sitta europaea affect the foraging behaviour of the subordinate Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla in small forest fragments? Ardea 85:259-267.

Smulders T.V., and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. How much memory do tits need? Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 12:417-418.

Van Dyck, H., E. Matthysen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. Mate-locating strategies are related to relative body length and wing colour in the speckled wood butterfly Pararge aegeria. Ecological Entomology 22: 116-120

Van Dyck H, E. Matthysen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. The effect of wing colour on male behavioural strategies in the speckled wood butterfly. Animal Behaviour 53: 39-51.

Van Dyck H, E. Matthysen, J.J. Windig, and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. Seasonal phenotypic variation in the speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria L.): Patterns in and relationships between wing characters. Belgian Journal of Zoology 127:167-178.

Verheyen G.R., E. Matthysen, F. Adriaensen, C. Van Broeckhoven, and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. Differentiation among blue tit (Parus caeruleus) populations measured with five minisatellite single locus probes. Belgian Journal of Zoology 127:179-189.

Wauters, L.A., L. Somers, and A.A. Dhondt. 1997. Settlement behaviour and population dynamics of reintroduced red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris in a park in Antwerp, Belgium. Biological Conservation 82: 101-107

Dhondt A.A. 1996. Molecular techniques in conservation and evolutionary biology: A quantum leap? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11:147-148.

Dhondt, A.A., F. Adriaensen, and W. Plompen. 1996. Between- and within population variation in mate fidelity in the Great Tit. In: Partnerships in Birds J.M. Black (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 235-248.

Leus, K., K.P. Bland, A.A. Dhondt, and A.A. Macdonald. 1996. Ploughing behaviour of Babirousa babyrussa (Suidae, Mammalia) suggests a scent-marking function. Journal of Zoology, London 238: 209-219.

Kempenaers, B., F. Adriaensen, A. J. van Noordwijk, and A.A. Dhondt. 1996. Genetic similarity, inbreeding and hatching failure in blue tits: Are unhatched eggs infertile? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 263: 179-185.

Van Dongen, S., E.Matthysen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1996. Restricted male winter moth (Operophtera brumata L.) dispersal among host trees. Acra Oecologica 17: 319-329.

Wauters, L.A., A.A. Dhondt, H. Knothe, and D.T. Parkin. 1996. Fluctuating asymmetry and body size as indicators of stress in red squirrel populations in woodland fragments. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 735-740

Kempenaers, B., G.R. Verheyen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1995. Mate guarding and copulation behaviour in monogamous and polygynous blue tits: do males follow a best-of-a-bad-job strategy? Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 36:33-42

Lambrechts, M.M., and A.A. Dhondt. 1995. Individual voice discrimination in birds. in: Power, D. M (ed.) Current Ornithology, vol. 12., 115-139

Matthysen, E., F. Adriaensen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1995. Dispersal distances of Nuthatches, Sitta europaea, in a highly fragmented forest habitat. Oikos 72:375-381.

Matthysen, E., L. Lens, S. Van Dongen, G.R.Verheyen, L.A.Wauters, F. Adriaensen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1995. Diverse effects of forest fragmentation on a number of animal species. Belgian Journal of Zoology 125:175-183.

Verheyen, G.R., B. Kempenaers, F. Adriansen, M. Van Den Broeck, E. Matthysen, C. Van Broeckhoven, and A. A. Dhondt. 1995. The genetic structure of Parus caeruleus (Blue Tit) populations as revealed by minisatellite single locus probes. Heredity 75: 571-577.

Wauters, L., L. Lens, and A.A. Dhondt. 1995. Variation in territory fidelity and territory shifts among red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris females. Animal Behaviour 49:187-193.

Wauters, L., and A.A. Dhondt. 1995. Lifetime reproductive success and its correlates in female Eurasian red squirrels. Oikos 72:402-410,

Wauters, L.A., J. Suhonen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1995. Fitness consequences of hoarding behaviour in the Eurasian red squirrel. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 262: 277-281.

Dhondt, A.A., F. Adriaensen. 1994. Causes and effects of divorce in the Blue Tit Parus caeruleus L. Journal of Animal Ecology 63: 979-987.

Lens, L., F. Adriaensen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1994. Age-related hoarding strategies in the Crested Tit Parus cristatus: should the cost of subordination be re-assessed? Journal of Animal Ecology 63: 749-755.

Lens, L., and A.A. Dhondt. 1994. Effect of habitat fragmentation on the timing of Crested Tit Parus cristatus dispersal. Ibis 136:147-152.

Lens, L., L.A. Wauters, and A.A. Dhondt. 1994. Nest-building by Crested Tit Parus cristatus males: an analysis of costs and benefits. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 35:431-436.

Ulenaers, P., and A.A. Dhondt. 1994. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus chick mortality in relation to parental fishing. Bird Study 41:211-220.

Van Dongen, S., T. Backeljau, E. Matthysen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1994. Effects of forest fragmentation on the population structure of winter moth Operophtera brumata L. (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Acta Oecologica 15:193-206.

Verheyen, G.R., B. Kempenaers, T. Burke, M. Van den Broeck, C. Van Broeckhoven, and A.A. Dhondt. 1994. Identification of hypervariable single locus minisatellite DNA probes in the Blue Tit Parus caeruleus. Molecular Ecology 3: 137-143.

Wauters, L., P. Casale, and A.A. Dhondt. 1994. Space use and dispersal of red squirrels in fragmented habitats. Oikos 69:140-146.

Wauters, L., I. Hutchinson, D.T. Parkin, and A.A. Dhondt. 1994. The effects of habitat fragmentation on demography and on the loss of genetic variation in the red squirrel. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 255:107-111.

Wauters, L., E. Matthysen, and A.A. Dhondt. 1994. Survival and lifetime reproductive success in dispersing and resident red squirrels. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 34:197-201.