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1. Wright, J., Steer, E., & Hailey, A. (1988) Habitatseparation in tortoises and the consequences for activity and thermoregulation.Can. J. Zool. 66, 1537-1544. 2. Hailey, A., Wright,J., & Steer, E. (1988) Populationecology and conservation of tortoises: the effects of disturbance. Herp. J. 1, 294-301. 3. Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1989) Manipulation of sexdifferences in parental care. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 25, 171-181. 4. Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1990a) Manipulation of sexdifferences in parental care: the effect of brood size. Anim. Behav. 40, 462-471. 5. Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1990b) Biparental care: short termmanipulation of partner contribution and brood size in the starling Sturnusvulgaris. Behav. Ecol. 1, 116-124. 6. Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1992) Monogamy in the Europeanstarling. Behaviour 120, 262-285. 7. Wright, J. (1992) Certainty of paternity and parental care. Anim.Behav. 44, 380-381. 8. Martins, T.L.F.& Wright, J. (1993a) Broodreduction in response to manipulated brood sizes in the common swift (Apusapus). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 32, 61-70. 9. Martins, T.L.F.& Wright, J. (1993b) The costof reproduction and the allocation of food between parent and young in thecommon swift (Apus apus). Behav.Ecol. 4, 213-223. 10. Martins, T.L.F. & Wright, J. (1993c) Patterns of food allocation between parent& young under differing weather conditions in the Common Swift (Apusapus). Avocetta 17, 147-156. 11. Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright, J. (1993) The effect of heating nestboxes on egg layingin the Blue Tit Parus caeruleus. Auk 110, 95-99. 12. Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1994a) Experimentally-induced sexdifferences in parental care: an effect of certainty of paternity? Anim.Behav. 47, 1311-1322. 13. Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1994b) Song versus food:trade-off decisions in a breeding colony of European starlings (Sturnusvulgaris). Bird Study 41, 95-101. 14. Kacelnik, K., Cotton, P.A., Stirling,L. & Wright, J. (1995) Foodallocation among nestling starlings: sibling competition and the scope ofparental choice. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 259, 259-263.* 15. Whitehead, S., Wright,J. & Cotton, P.A. (1995) Winterfield use by the European Starling Sturnus vulgaris: habitat preferences and the availability of prey. J.Avian Biol. 26., 193-202. 16. Markman, S., Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright,J. (1995) Male parental care in theOrange-Tufted Sunbird: behavioural adjustment in provisioning and nest guardingeffort. Anim. Behav. 50, 655-669.* 17. Markman, S.,Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright, J.(1996) The effect of male removal on female parental care in the Orange-TuftedSunbird. Anim. Behav. 52, 437-444.* 18. Whitehead, S., Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1996) Measuring the impact ofparental foraging by starlings, Sturnus vulgaris. on soil invertebrates: an exclosure experiment. Oikos 76, 511-521. 19. Cotton, P.A.,Kacelnik, K. & Wright, J. (1996)Chick begging as a signal: are nestlings honest? Behav. Ecol. 7, 178-182. 20. Bradbury, R.B., Cotton, P.A., Wright,J., & Griffiths, R. (1997)Nestling sex ratios in the European Starling Sturnus vulgaris. J. Avian Biol. 28, 255-258. 21. Wright, J. (1997) Helping-at-the-nest in Arabian babblers:signalling social status or sensible investment in chicks? Anim. Behav. 54, 1439-1448.* 22. Markman, S., Pinshow, B. & Wright,J. (1998) Quality of food eaten byparent sunbirds directly affects their brood-care effort. Ostrich 69, 196 (IOC abstract). 23. Wright, J. (1998a) Helping-at-the-nest and group size in theArabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps).J. Avian Biol. 29, 105-112. 24. Wright, J. (1998b) Helpers-at-the-nest have the sameprovisioning rule as parents: experimental evidence from playbacks of chickbegging. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.42, 423-429. 25. Wright, J. (1998c) Paternity and Paternal Care. Chapter In:Birkhead, T.R. and M¿ller, A.P. Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection. Academic Press, London pp. 117-145.* 26. Wright, J., Both, C., Cotton, P.A. & Bryant, D. (1998)Quality versus quantity: energetic and nutritional trade-offs in parentalprovisioning strategies. J. Anim. Ecol. 67, 620-634.* 27. Markman, S., Pinshow, B. & Wright,J. (1999) Orange-tufted sunbirds donot feed nectar to their chicks. Auk116, 257-259. 28. Wright, J. (1999) Altruism as a signal Ð ZahaviÕs alternative tokin selection and reciprocity. J. Avian Biol. 30, 108-115. 29. Cotton, P.A., Wright, J. & Kacelnik, A. (1999) Chick begging strategies inrelation to brood hierarchies and hatching asynchrony. Am. Nat. 153, 412-420.* 30. Wright, J. & Dingemanse, N. (1999) Parents and helperscompensate for experimental changes in the provisioning effort of others in theArabian babbler. Anim. Behav. 58,345-350.* 31. Wright, J., Parker, P., & Lundy K. (1999) Relatedness andchick-feeding effort in the cooperatively-breeding Arabian babbler. Anim.Behav. 58, 779-785.* 32. Johnstone, R.A., Woodroffe, R., Cant,M.A. & Wright, J. (1999)Reproductive skew in multi-member groups. Am. Nat. 153, 315-331.* 33. Wright, J. (1999) Adaptive versus non-adaptive helping incooperative breeders. Behav. Ecol Sociobiol. 46, 437-438.* 34. Whitehead, S., Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1999) Patterns of winter fielduse by starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)- how important is prey depletion? Bird Study 46, 289-298.* 35. Yom-Tov, Y., Wright, J. & Both, C. (2000) Intraspecific nest parasitismand nest guarding in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca. Ibis142, 331-332. 36. Leader, N., Wright, J. & Yom-Tov, Y. (2000) Microgeographic songvariation in the orange-tufted sunbird (Necterinia osea). Behaviour137, 1613-1637.* 37. Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2000) Nestling diet, chick growth and breedingsuccess in the southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis). Proc. 3rd Int. ShrikeSymp. Gdansk 1999. The Ring 22,165-172. 38. Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2001a) Begging in Nestling Birds. CurrentOrnithology 16, 83-118.* 39. Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2001b) Falling on deaf ears: the adaptivesignificance of begging in the absence of a parent. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 49, 474-481.* 40. Denny, A.J., Wright, J. & Grief, B. (2001) Foraging trail efficiency inthe wood ant Formica rufa: is timeof the essence? Anim. Behav. 62,139-146.* 41. Wright, J., Maklakov, A. & Khazin, V. (2001a)State-dependent sentinels: an experimental study in the Arabian babbler. Proc.R. Soc. Lond. B. 268, 1-6.* 42. Wright, J., Berg, E., de Kort, S., Khazin, V. & Maklakov, A.(2001b) Safe selfish sentinels in a cooperative bird. J. Anim. Ecol. 70, 1070-1079.* 43. Wright, J., Berg, E., de Kort, S., Khazin, V. & Maklakov, A.(2001c) Cooperative sentinel behaviour in the Arabian babbler. Anim. Behav. 62, 973-979.* 44. Karasov, W.H., McSwan E.L. & Wright,J. (2001) Begging and digestion bynestling pied flycatchers in relation to short- and long-term nutritional need.Am. Zool. 41, 1490-1490 (SIBCabstract). 45. Leader, N., Wright, J. & Yom-Tov, Y. (2002) Dialect discrimination bymale orange tufted sunbirds (Nectarinia osea): reactions to own versus neighbor dialects. Ethology 108, 367-376.* 46. Wright, J. & Leonard, M.L. (2002) The Evolution ofBegging: Competition, Cooperation and Communication. (edited proceeding from Begging Workshop, Gregynog2000), Kluwyer Academic Press, Dordrecht, NL.*
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Karasov, W.H. & Wright,J. (2002) Nestling Begging andDigestion In: The Evolution of Begging: Competition, Cooperation andCommunication (Ed by Wright, J. & Leonard ML), pp-199-219, Kluwyer AcademicPress, Dordrecht, NL.*
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Wright, J., Hinde, C., Both, C. & Fazey, I. (2002) Beggingsignals more than just short-term need: cryptic effects of brood size in thepied flycatcher. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 52, 74-83.*
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Kokko, H., Johnstone,R.A. & Wright, J. (2002) Theevolution of parental and alloparental effort in cooperatively breeding groups:when should helpers pay-to-stay? Behav. Ecol. 13, 291-300.*
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Markman, S., Pinshow, B.& Wright, J. (2002)Manipulation of food resources reveals sex-specific trade-offs between parentalself-feeding and offspring care. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 269, 1931-1938.*
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Martins, T.L.F., Blakey,J.K. & Wright, J. (2002) Lowincidence of extra-pair paternity in the colonially-nesting common swift. J.Avian Biol. 33, 441-446.*
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Blount, J.D., Houston,D.C., M¿ller, A.P. & Wright, J.(2003) A comparative study of immune function in scavenging and non-scavengingbirds. Oikos. 102, 340-350.*
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Wright, J., Stone, R.E. & Brown, N. (2003) Communal roostsas structured information centres in the raven, Corvus corax. J. Anim. Ecol. 72, 1003-1014.*
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Markman, S., Pinshow,B., Wright, J. & Burt P. Kotler(2004) Food patch use by parent birds: to gather food for themselves or fortheir chicks. J. Anim. Ecol. 73,747-755.*
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Walling, C.A., Dawnay,N., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J.(2004) Predator inspection in sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus): body size, localpredation pressure and cooperation. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 56, 164-170.*
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Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright,J. (In Press) Altruism as a signal:providing food for thought? J. Avian Biol.
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Wright, J. & Kazem, A.J.N. (In Press) Altruism as a signalin cooperative systems. In: Dominance-domination / Cooperation-reciprocity (Proceedings of Jean-Marie Delwart Foundationmeeting, Brussels, Nov 2001), VRIN, Paris.
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Both, C., Artemyev,A.V., Blaauw, B., Cowie, R., Dekhuizen, H., Gustafsson, L., JŠrvinen, A.,Kerimov, A., Metcalfe, N., Potti, J., Ravussin, P-A, Sanz, J.J., Silverin, B.,Slater, F., Tšršk, J., Winkel, W., Wright, J., Zang, H., Visser, M.E. (In Press) Near experimentalevidence that climate change causes birds to lay earlier. Proc. Roy. Soc.Lond. B.
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Leader, N., Wright,J. & Yom-Tov, Y. (In Press) Soundtransmission and song type in male orange tufted sunbirds (Nectarinia osea). Auk Book &software reviews
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Wright, J. (1993) Parent-offspring conflict and its resolutionin the European Starling. by Litovich, E. & Power, H.W. Ibis 325, 340-341.
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Wright, J. (1994) The Ostrich Communal Nesting System. byBertram, B. Anim. Behav. 47, 237.
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Wright, J. (1998) EcoBeaker 1.0: An Ecological SimulationProgram. by Mier, E. Life Sci. Edu.9, 32-35.
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Wright, J. (1999) Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology ofUnselfish Behavior. by Sober, E. & Wilson, D.S. ISBE Newsletter 11, 13-14.
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Wright, J. (1999) Parasitic Birds and Their Hosts: Studies inCoevolution. by S. Rothstein & S. Robinson (eds). Ibis 141, 519-520.
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Wright, J. (In Press) More Than Kin and Less Than Kind. TheEvolution of Family Dynamics by D. Mock, ISBE Newsletter. |