Theresa Jones

Effects of variation in natural and artificial light at night on acoustic communication: a review and prospectus

AL Dickerson, ML Hall, TM Jones

Journal article  |  2023  |  Animal Behaviour

Acoustic communication is prevalent throughout the animal kingdom, from insects and fish to birds and mammals and has been strongl..

Male-specific nocturnal song functions similarly to day song in a diurnal bird species

Ashton L Dickerson, Theresa M Jones, Kaya B Moore, Michelle L Hall

Journal article  |  2023  |  ETHOLOGY

Historically, birdsong research has been biased towards song of male birds at dawn and during the day, even though some diurnal bi..

Artificial light at night promotes bottom-up changes in a woodland food chain

Martin T Lockett, Rebecca Rasmussen, Stefan K Arndt, Gareth R Hopkins, Theresa M Jones

Journal article  |  2022  |  ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a recognised disruptor of biological function and ecological communities. Despite increasing r..

Population level variation in silk chemistry but not web architecture in a widely distributed orb web spider

Jessica Henneken, Sean J Blamires, Jason Qd Goodger, Theresa M Jones, Mark A Elgar

Journal article  |  2022  |  BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Abstract Spider webs are iconic examples of extended phenotypes that are remarkably plastic across different enviro..

Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment

D Johan Kotze, Elizabeth C Lowe, J Scott MacIvor, Alessandro Ossola, Briony A Norton, Dieter F Hochuli, Luis Mata, Marco Moretti, Sara A Gagne, I Tanya Handa, Theresa M Jones, Caragh G Threlfall, Amy K Hahs

Journal article  |  2022  |  URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Invertebrates comprise the most diversified animal group on Earth. Due to their long evolutionary history and small size, inverteb..

WILDLIFE EXPLOITATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGE: INTERACTIONS AND CONSEQUENCES

Nikolas J Willmott, Bob BM Wong, Elizabeth C Lowe, Kathryn B Mcnamara, Theresa M Jones

Journal article  |  2022  |  QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Anthropogenic environmental change is continuing to accelerate globally and has important ecological consequences for virtually al..

A framework for computer-aided design and manufacturing of habitat structures for cavity-dependent animals

Dan Parker, Stanislav Roudavski, Theresa M Jones, Nick Bradsworth, Bronwyn Isaac, Martin T Lockett, Kylie Soanes

Journal article  |  2022  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The decline of critical habitat structures, such as large old trees, is a global environmental challenge. The cavities that occur ..

Beyond the prey: male spiders highly invest in silk when producing worthless gifts

Camila Pavon-Pelaez, Valentina Franco-Trecu, Irene Pandulli-Alonso, Theresa M Jones, Maria J Albo

Journal article  |  2022  |  PEERJ

In the spider Paratrechalea ornata, males have two gift-giving mating tactics, offering either a nutritive (prey) or a worthless (..

The effect of natural and artificial light at night on nocturnal song in the diurnal willie wagtail

Ashton L Dickerson, Michelle L Hall, Theresa M Jones

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Artificial light at night (ALAN) has rapidly and drastically changed the global nocturnal environment. Evidence for the effect of ..

Sexual selection can partly explain low frequencies of Segregation Distorter alleles

Thomas A Keaney, Theresa M Jones, Luke Holman

Journal article  |  2021  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Segregation Distorter (SD) allele found in Drosophila melanogaster distorts Mendelian inheritance in heterozygous males by cau..