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Peer-reviewed papers and chapters
2020
38. Lara CE, Taylor HR, Holtmann B, Johnson SL, Santos ESA, Gemmell NJ & Nakagawa S. 2020. Dunnock social status correlates with sperm speed, but fast sperm does not always equal high fitness. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13655 [Link]
37. Menezes JCT & Santos ESA. 2020. Habitat structure drives the evolution of aerial displays in birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, 482-493. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13132 [Link]
2019
36. Bulla M, . . . Santos ESA, . . . [and 58 other authors]. 2019. Comment on “Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds”. Science, 364, eaaw8529. doi: 10.1101/601047 [Link]
35. Pollo P, Muniz DG & Santos ESA. 2019. Be prudent if it fits you well: male mate choice depends on male size in a golden orb-weaver spider. Animal Behaviour, 156, 11-20. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.030 [Link]
34. Santos ESA & Macedo RH. 2019. Helpers increase daily survival rate of Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) nests during the incubation period. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 131, 710-715. doi: 10.1676/17-46 [Link]
2018
33. Lara CE, Holtmann B, Santos ES & Nakagawa S. 2018. Parental feeding decisions in dunnocks from a resource availability perspective: assessing the role of nestling tongue spots and body size. EcoEvoRxiv. doi: 10.32942/osf.io/2vtuk [Link].
32. Ngo TTN, Senior AM, Culina A, Santos ESA, Vlak JM & Zwart MP. 2018. Quantitative analysis of the dose response of white spot syndrome virus in shrimp. Journal of Fish Diseases. doi: 10.1111/jfd.12877 [Link]
31. Weaver RJ, Santos ESA, Tucker AM, Wilson AE & Hill GE. 2018. Carotenoid metabolism strengthens the link between feather coloration and individual quality. Nature Communications, 9, 73. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02649-z [Link] Media: Ciência USP (Link) (Link)
2017
30. Holtmann B, Santos ESA, Lara CE & Nakagawa S. 2017. Personality-matching habitat choice, but not behavioural plasticity, generates a phenotype-environment covariance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284, 20170943. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0943 [Link] Media: The Economist
29. Lamb SD, Taylor H, Holtmann B, Santos ESA, Tamayo JH, Johnson SL, Nakagawa S & Lara CE. 2017. Coprophagy in Dunnocks (Prunella modularis): A behavior frequent in females, infrequent in males, and very unusual in nestlings. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 129, 615-620. doi: 10.1676/16-059.1 [Link]
28. Santos ESA & Nakagawa S. 2017. Facultative adjustment of paternal care in the face of female promiscuity in dunnocks. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/158816 [Link]
27. Santos ESA & Nakagawa S. 2017. The study of dunnock mating. In: Encyclopaedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (ed. Shackelford TK & Weekes-Shackelford V) Springer, New York. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2723-1 [Link]
26. Macedo-Rego RC & Santos ESA. 2017. Harems. In: Encyclopaedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (ed. Shackelford TK & Weekes-Shackelford V) Springer, New York. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2722-1 [Link]
25. Macedo-Rego RC & Santos ESA. 2017. Polygyny threshold (Behavioral Ecology). In: Encyclopaedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (ed. Shackelford TK & Weekes-Shackelford V) Springer, New York. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3613-1 [Link]
24. Muniz D, Santos ESA, Guimarães Jr. P, Nakagawa S & Machado G. 2017. A multinomial network method for the analysis of mate choice and assortative mating in spatially structured populations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12798 [Link]
23. Santos ESA, Bueno P, Gilbert J & Machado G. 2017. Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates. Biological Reviews, 92, 1688-1701. doi: 10.1111/brv.12303 [Link] Media: The Conversation, Independent, IFLScience!
2016
22. Santos ESA. 2016. Bird clutch size. In: Encyclopaedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (ed. Shackelford TK & Weekes-Shackelford V) Springer, New York. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3038-1 [Link]
21. Senior AM, Grueber CE, Kamiya T, Lagisz M, O'Dwyer K, Santos ESA & Nakagawa S. 2016. Heterogeneity in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses: its magnitudes and implications. Ecology, 97, 3293-3299. doi: 10.1002/ecy.1591 [Link]
20. Santos ESA & Machado G. 2016. Sexual dichromatism in wing pigmentation of New World dragonflies follows Rensch’s rule. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 7, 1447-1454. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12885 [Link] [Dataset on Dryad]
19. Macedo-Rego RC, Costa-Schmidt LE, Santos ESA & Machado G. 2016. The past condemns you: long-term negative effects of prolonged dietary restriction on male mating effort in a gift-giving spider. Scientific Reports, 6, 21846. doi: 10.1038/srep21846 [Link] [Dataset on figshare]
18. Holtmann B, Grosser S, Lagisz M, Johnson S, Santos ESA, Lara CE, Robertson BC & Nakagawa S. 2016. Population differentiation and behavioural association of the two ‘personality’ genes DRD4 and SERT in dunnocks (Prunella modularis). Molecular Ecology, 25, 706-722. doi: 10.1111/mec.13514 [Link]
2015
17. Santos ESA, Santos LLS, Lagisz M & Nakagawa S. 2015. Conflict and cooperation over sex: the consequences of social and genetic polyandry for reproductive success in dunnocks. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84, 1509-1519. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12432 [Link] [Dataset on figshare] Media: Agência Universitária de Notícias/USP, Notícias IB/USP
16. Tomkins S, Moore F, Holtmann B, Santos ESA & Lara CE. 2015. Nest re-use by dunnocks (Prunella modularis) in New Zealand: an uncommon behaviour revealed through a long-term study. Notornis, 62, 96–98. [Link] [PDF]
2014
15. Moulton MP, Santos ESA, Cropper, Jr. WP & Lim JN. 2014. New records for passerine introductions to the Otago Acclimatisation Region in New Zealand. Notornis, 61, 219-222. [Link] [PDF]
14. Martínez-Ortega C, Santos ESA & Gil D. 2014. Species-specific differences in relative eye size are related to patterns of edge avoidance in an Amazonian rainforest bird community. Ecology and Evolution, doi:10.1002/ece3.1194 [Link] [Media]
2013
13. Santos ESA & Nakagawa S. 2013. Breeding biology and variable mating system of a population of introduced dunnocks (Prunella modularis) in New Zealand. PLoS ONE, 8, e69329. [Link]
12. Santos ESA, Jamieson IG, Santos LLS & Nakagawa S. 2013. Low genetic and morphological differentiation between an introduced population of dunnocks in New Zealand and an ancestral population in England. Biological Invasions, 15, 185-197. [Link]
11. Santos ESA. 2013. Dunnock. In Miskelly, C.M. (ed.) New Zealand Birds Online. Retrieved from www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz
2012
10. Santos ESA & Nakagawa S. 2012. The costs of parental care: a meta-analysis of the trade-off between parental effort and survival in birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25, 1911-1917. [Link]
9. Santos ESA. 2012. Discovery of previously unknown historical records on the introduction of dunnocks (Prunella modularis) into Otago, New Zealand during the 19th century. Notornis, 59, 79-81. [Link]
8. Nakagawa S & Santos ESA. 2012. Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis. Evolutionary Ecology, 26, 1253-1274. [Link]
2011
7. Santos ESA, Scheck D & Nakagawa S. 2011. Dominance and plumage traits: meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis. Animal Behaviour, 82, 3-19. [Link]
6. Santos ESA & Macedo RH. 2011. Load lightening in southern lapwings: Group-living mothers lay smaller eggs than pair-living mothers. Ethology, 117, 547-555. [Link]
2009
5. Santos ESA. 2009. Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online
4. Santos ESA, Maia R & Macedo RH. 2009. Condition-dependent resource value affects male-male competition in the blue-black grassquit. Behavioral Ecology, 20, 553-559. [Link]
3. Diniz P & Santos ESA. 2009. Coal-crested Finch (Charitospiza eucosma), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online
2. Dias RI, Santos ESA & Macedo RH. 2009. Mating system and sexual conflict in the blue-black grassquit (Volatinia jacarina, Aves: Emberizidae): Extra-pair mating behavior sets the scene. Oecologia Brasiliensis, 13, 183-191. [Link]
2008
1. Aguilar TM, Maia R, Santos ESA & Macedo RH. 2008. Parasite levels in blue-black grassquits correlate with male displays but not female mate choice. Behavioral Ecology, 19, 292-301. [Link]
Book chapters
2008
Maia R & Santos ESA. 2008. Tropical Bird Communities, in Tropical Biology and Natural Resources, edited by R.H. Macedo & M. Morris, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.net].
Peer-reviewed papers and chapters
2020
38. Lara CE, Taylor HR, Holtmann B, Johnson SL, Santos ESA, Gemmell NJ & Nakagawa S. 2020. Dunnock social status correlates with sperm speed, but fast sperm does not always equal high fitness. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13655 [Link]
37. Menezes JCT & Santos ESA. 2020. Habitat structure drives the evolution of aerial displays in birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, 482-493. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13132 [Link]
2019
36. Bulla M, . . . Santos ESA, . . . [and 58 other authors]. 2019. Comment on “Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds”. Science, 364, eaaw8529. doi: 10.1101/601047 [Link]
35. Pollo P, Muniz DG & Santos ESA. 2019. Be prudent if it fits you well: male mate choice depends on male size in a golden orb-weaver spider. Animal Behaviour, 156, 11-20. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.030 [Link]
34. Santos ESA & Macedo RH. 2019. Helpers increase daily survival rate of Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) nests during the incubation period. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 131, 710-715. doi: 10.1676/17-46 [Link]
2018
33. Lara CE, Holtmann B, Santos ES & Nakagawa S. 2018. Parental feeding decisions in dunnocks from a resource availability perspective: assessing the role of nestling tongue spots and body size. EcoEvoRxiv. doi: 10.32942/osf.io/2vtuk [Link].
32. Ngo TTN, Senior AM, Culina A, Santos ESA, Vlak JM & Zwart MP. 2018. Quantitative analysis of the dose response of white spot syndrome virus in shrimp. Journal of Fish Diseases. doi: 10.1111/jfd.12877 [Link]
31. Weaver RJ, Santos ESA, Tucker AM, Wilson AE & Hill GE. 2018. Carotenoid metabolism strengthens the link between feather coloration and individual quality. Nature Communications, 9, 73. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02649-z [Link] Media: Ciência USP (Link) (Link)
2017
30. Holtmann B, Santos ESA, Lara CE & Nakagawa S. 2017. Personality-matching habitat choice, but not behavioural plasticity, generates a phenotype-environment covariance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284, 20170943. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0943 [Link] Media: The Economist
29. Lamb SD, Taylor H, Holtmann B, Santos ESA, Tamayo JH, Johnson SL, Nakagawa S & Lara CE. 2017. Coprophagy in Dunnocks (Prunella modularis): A behavior frequent in females, infrequent in males, and very unusual in nestlings. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 129, 615-620. doi: 10.1676/16-059.1 [Link]
28. Santos ESA & Nakagawa S. 2017. Facultative adjustment of paternal care in the face of female promiscuity in dunnocks. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/158816 [Link]
27. Santos ESA & Nakagawa S. 2017. The study of dunnock mating. In: Encyclopaedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (ed. Shackelford TK & Weekes-Shackelford V) Springer, New York. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2723-1 [Link]
26. Macedo-Rego RC & Santos ESA. 2017. Harems. In: Encyclopaedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (ed. Shackelford TK & Weekes-Shackelford V) Springer, New York. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2722-1 [Link]
25. Macedo-Rego RC & Santos ESA. 2017. Polygyny threshold (Behavioral Ecology). In: Encyclopaedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (ed. Shackelford TK & Weekes-Shackelford V) Springer, New York. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3613-1 [Link]
24. Muniz D, Santos ESA, Guimarães Jr. P, Nakagawa S & Machado G. 2017. A multinomial network method for the analysis of mate choice and assortative mating in spatially structured populations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12798 [Link]
23. Santos ESA, Bueno P, Gilbert J & Machado G. 2017. Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates. Biological Reviews, 92, 1688-1701. doi: 10.1111/brv.12303 [Link] Media: The Conversation, Independent, IFLScience!
2016
22. Santos ESA. 2016. Bird clutch size. In: Encyclopaedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (ed. Shackelford TK & Weekes-Shackelford V) Springer, New York. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3038-1 [Link]
21. Senior AM, Grueber CE, Kamiya T, Lagisz M, O'Dwyer K, Santos ESA & Nakagawa S. 2016. Heterogeneity in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses: its magnitudes and implications. Ecology, 97, 3293-3299. doi: 10.1002/ecy.1591 [Link]
20. Santos ESA & Machado G. 2016. Sexual dichromatism in wing pigmentation of New World dragonflies follows Rensch’s rule. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 7, 1447-1454. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12885 [Link] [Dataset on Dryad]
19. Macedo-Rego RC, Costa-Schmidt LE, Santos ESA & Machado G. 2016. The past condemns you: long-term negative effects of prolonged dietary restriction on male mating effort in a gift-giving spider. Scientific Reports, 6, 21846. doi: 10.1038/srep21846 [Link] [Dataset on figshare]
18. Holtmann B, Grosser S, Lagisz M, Johnson S, Santos ESA, Lara CE, Robertson BC & Nakagawa S. 2016. Population differentiation and behavioural association of the two ‘personality’ genes DRD4 and SERT in dunnocks (Prunella modularis). Molecular Ecology, 25, 706-722. doi: 10.1111/mec.13514 [Link]
2015
17. Santos ESA, Santos LLS, Lagisz M & Nakagawa S. 2015. Conflict and cooperation over sex: the consequences of social and genetic polyandry for reproductive success in dunnocks. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84, 1509-1519. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12432 [Link] [Dataset on figshare] Media: Agência Universitária de Notícias/USP, Notícias IB/USP
16. Tomkins S, Moore F, Holtmann B, Santos ESA & Lara CE. 2015. Nest re-use by dunnocks (Prunella modularis) in New Zealand: an uncommon behaviour revealed through a long-term study. Notornis, 62, 96–98. [Link] [PDF]
2014
15. Moulton MP, Santos ESA, Cropper, Jr. WP & Lim JN. 2014. New records for passerine introductions to the Otago Acclimatisation Region in New Zealand. Notornis, 61, 219-222. [Link] [PDF]
14. Martínez-Ortega C, Santos ESA & Gil D. 2014. Species-specific differences in relative eye size are related to patterns of edge avoidance in an Amazonian rainforest bird community. Ecology and Evolution, doi:10.1002/ece3.1194 [Link] [Media]
2013
13. Santos ESA & Nakagawa S. 2013. Breeding biology and variable mating system of a population of introduced dunnocks (Prunella modularis) in New Zealand. PLoS ONE, 8, e69329. [Link]
12. Santos ESA, Jamieson IG, Santos LLS & Nakagawa S. 2013. Low genetic and morphological differentiation between an introduced population of dunnocks in New Zealand and an ancestral population in England. Biological Invasions, 15, 185-197. [Link]
11. Santos ESA. 2013. Dunnock. In Miskelly, C.M. (ed.) New Zealand Birds Online. Retrieved from www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz
2012
10. Santos ESA & Nakagawa S. 2012. The costs of parental care: a meta-analysis of the trade-off between parental effort and survival in birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25, 1911-1917. [Link]
9. Santos ESA. 2012. Discovery of previously unknown historical records on the introduction of dunnocks (Prunella modularis) into Otago, New Zealand during the 19th century. Notornis, 59, 79-81. [Link]
8. Nakagawa S & Santos ESA. 2012. Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis. Evolutionary Ecology, 26, 1253-1274. [Link]
2011
7. Santos ESA, Scheck D & Nakagawa S. 2011. Dominance and plumage traits: meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis. Animal Behaviour, 82, 3-19. [Link]
6. Santos ESA & Macedo RH. 2011. Load lightening in southern lapwings: Group-living mothers lay smaller eggs than pair-living mothers. Ethology, 117, 547-555. [Link]
2009
5. Santos ESA. 2009. Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online
4. Santos ESA, Maia R & Macedo RH. 2009. Condition-dependent resource value affects male-male competition in the blue-black grassquit. Behavioral Ecology, 20, 553-559. [Link]
3. Diniz P & Santos ESA. 2009. Coal-crested Finch (Charitospiza eucosma), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online
2. Dias RI, Santos ESA & Macedo RH. 2009. Mating system and sexual conflict in the blue-black grassquit (Volatinia jacarina, Aves: Emberizidae): Extra-pair mating behavior sets the scene. Oecologia Brasiliensis, 13, 183-191. [Link]
2008
1. Aguilar TM, Maia R, Santos ESA & Macedo RH. 2008. Parasite levels in blue-black grassquits correlate with male displays but not female mate choice. Behavioral Ecology, 19, 292-301. [Link]
Book chapters
2008
Maia R & Santos ESA. 2008. Tropical Bird Communities, in Tropical Biology and Natural Resources, edited by R.H. Macedo & M. Morris, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.net].