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DR Michael Magrath
Positions
- Honorary, BioSciences
- Behavioural Ecology (Sex allocation, sexual dimorphism, provisioning, mating, parental care, social organization, behaviour, breeding)
Overview
Publications
Selected publications
2015
Journal Articles Refereed
- Animal personality and pace-of-life syndromes: do fast-exploring fairy-wrens die young?. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 3. 2015
2014
Journal Articles Refereed
- Assortative mating among animals of captive and wild origin following experimental conservation releases. Biology Letters. 10. 2014
2012
Journal Articles Refereed
- Reproductive Consequences of Male Arrival Order in the Bark Beetle, Ips grandicollis. Journal of Insect Behavior. 25. 2012
2011
Journal Articles Refereed
2010
Journal Articles Refereed
- Androgens during development in a bird species with extremely sexually dimorphic growth, the brown songlark, Cinclorhamphus cruralis. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 165. 2010
- Conclusive evidence for conspecific brood parasitism in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus: a reply to Griffith et al.. Journal of Avian Biology. 41. 2010
- Ultraviolet crown colouration affects contest outcomes among male blue tits, but only in the absence of prior encounters. Functional Ecology. 24. 2010
2009
Journal Articles Refereed
- Harem size and oviposition behaviour in a polygynous bark beetle 2009
- Mate-guarding intensity increases with breeding synchrony in the colonial fairy martin, Petrochelidon ariel. Animal Behaviour. 78. 2009
- Maternal Effects Contribute to the Superior Performance of Extra-Pair Offspring. Current Biology. 19. 2009
2008
Journal Articles Refereed
- Sex-biases in the hatching sequence of cooperatively breeding apostlebirds Struthidea cinerea. Evolutionary Ecology. 22. 2008
2007
Journal Articles Refereed
- Estimating expenditure on male and female offspring in a sexually size-dimorphic bird: a comparison of different methods. Journal of Animal Ecology. 76. 2007
- Provisioning adjustments by male and female fairy martins to short-term manipulations of brood size. Behaviour. 144. 2007
2006
Journal Articles Refereed
2005
Journal Articles Refereed
- Contrasting effects of reduced incubation cost on clutch attendance by male and female European starlings. Behaviour. 142. 2005
- Helping enhances multiple components of reproductive success in the cooperatively breeding apostlebird. Journal of Animal Ecology. 74. 2005
- The evolution of egg rejection by cuckoo hosts in Australia and Europe. Behavioral Ecology. 16. 2005
2004
Journal Articles Refereed
- Nutritional bias as a new mode of adjusting sex allocation. Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences. 271. 2004
- Predation events at an apostlebird nest. Corella. 28. 2004
2003
Journal Articles Refereed
- Breeding behaviour and ecology of the sexually size-dimorphic brown songlark, Cinclorhamphus cruralis. Australian Journal of Zoology. 51. 2003
- Egg size and laying order in relation to offspring sex in the extreme sexually size dimorphic brown songlark, Cinclorhamphus cruralis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 54. 2003
- Is male care compromised by additional mating opportunity?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 18. 2003
2002
Journal Articles Refereed
- Paternal care and male mate-attraction effort in the European starling is adjusted to clutch size. Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences. 269. 2002
- Pre-ovulation control of hatchling sex ratio in the Seychelles warbler. Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences. 269. 2002
- Sex allocation in the sexually monomorphic fairy martin. Journal of Avian Biology. 33. 2002
Awards
Education and training
- PhD, University of Melbourne 1998
- BSc, The Australian National University 1989
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