McDonald G C., Cuthill I. C., Székely T., Kosztolányi A. 2022. Remating opportunities and low costs underlie maternal desertion. Evolution. qpac020. doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpac020
Schacht R., Beissinger S. R., Wedekind C., Jennions M. D., Geffroy B., Liker A., Kappeler P. M., Weissing F. J., Kramer K. L., Hesketh T., Boissier J., Uggla C., Hollingshaus M., Székely T. 2022. Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies. Communiactions Biology. (2022) 5:1273. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04223-w full text accessible here
McDonald G. C., Bede-Fazekas Á., Ivanonv A., Crecco L., Székely T., Kosztolányi A. 2022. Landscape and climatic predictions of Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) distributions throughout Kazahstan. Ibis - International journal of avian biology. doi: 10.1111/ibi.13070 full text accessible here
Šálek M., Sládeček M., Kubelka V., Mlíkovský J., Storch D., Šmilauer P. 2022. Beyond habitat: effects of conspecific and heterospecific aggregation on the spatial structure of a wetland nesting bird community. Journal of Avian Biology. 2022: e02928. doi: 10.1111/jav.02928. full text accessible here
Kubelka V., Sandercock B.K., Székely T. & Freckleton R. P. 2022. Animal migration to northern latitudes: environmental changes and increasing threats. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. full text accessible here
2021
Jones W., Eberhart-Hertel L.J., Freckleton R.P., Hoffman J.I., Krüger O., Sandercock B.K., Vincze O., Zefania S., Székely T. 2021. Exceptionally high apparent adult survival in three tropical species of plovers in Madagascar. Journal of Avian Biology 2021: e02911. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02911
Elhassan E. E. M., Sládeček M., Badaam S., Brynychová K., Chajma P., Firlová V., Janatová V., Kubelka V., Pešková L., Vozabulová E., Almuhery A., Šálek M. 2021. An artificial lakes system intended for human recreation supports a vital breeding population of Red-wattled Lapwing in the Arabian Desert. Avian Conservation & Ecology 16(2):20. https://www.ace-eco.org/vol16/iss2/art20/
Fresneau N., Lee Y.F., Lee W.C., Kosztolányi A., Székely T., Liker A. 2021. Sex role reversal and high frequency of social poliandry in the Pheasant-tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus). Front.Ecol.Evol. 9:742588. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.742588
Mokos J., Scheuring I., Liker A., Freckleton R.P., Székely T. 2021. Degree of anisogamy is unrelated to the intensity of sexual selection. Sci Rep 11:19424. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98616-2
Zefania, S., & Székely T.,2021. Charadrius, plovers. Goodman, S. M. (ed.) (in press). The new natural history of Madagascar. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Székely, T. 2021. Darwin got sexual selection backwards, research suggests. The Conversation. full text accessible here
Liker, A., Bókony, V., Pipoly, I., Lemaître, J-F., Gaillard, J-M., Székely, T., Freckleton, R. P. 2021. Evolution of large males is associated with female-skewed adult sex ratios in amniotes. Evolution https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14273
Koleček, J., Reif, J., Šálek, M., Hanzelka, J., Sottas, C. & Kubelka, V. 2021. Global population trends in shorebirds: migratory behaviour makes species at risk. The Science of Nature (2021)108:9. Please find enclosed the final PDF of our paper. If you wish to share it publicly, please use this link: https://rdcu.be/cfbGj It enables legal read-only access to the full PDF even for non-subscribers.
2020
Kubelka, V., 2020. Review of inter and intraspecific predation by shorebirds. Ornis Fennica 97: 177-185. full text freely accessible here
Halimubieke, N., Kupán, K., Valdebenito, J.O. et al. 2020. Successful breeding predicts divorce in plovers. Sci Rep 10, 15576. full text freely available here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72521-6
Amano, T., Székely, T., Wauchope, H.S. et al.2020. Responses of global waterbird populations to climate change vary with latitude. Nat. Clim. Chang. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0872-3
McDonald, G.C., Engel, N., Ratão, S.S. et al. 2020. The impact of social structure on breeding strategies in an island bird. Sci Rep 10, 13872 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70595-w
Engel, N, Zs. Végvári, R. Rice, V. Kubelka & T. Székely. 2020. Incubating parents serve as visual cues to predators in Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus). PLOS One https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236489
Cornejo-Páramo, P, D. S.B. Dissanayake, A. Lira-Noriega, M. L. Martínez-Pacheco, A. Acosta, C. Ramírez-Suástegui, F. R. Méndez-de-la-Cruz, T. Székely, A. O. Urrutia, A. Georges & D. Cortez. 2020. Viviparous reptile regarded to have temperature-dependent sex determination has old XY chromosomes. Genome Biology & Evolution, 12(6):924–930 - full text freely available here
Cooney, C. R, C. Sheard, A. D. Clark, S. D. Healy, A. Liker, S. E. Street, C. A. Troisi, G. H. Thomas, T. Székely, N. Hemmings & A. E. Wright. 2020. Ecology, phylogeny, and the evolution of developmental duration in birds. Nature Communications, 11:2383 - full text freely available here
Vági, B., Zs. Végvári, A. Liker, R. P. Freckleton & T. Székely. 2020. Climate and sexual selection as drivers of global diversity of parental care in frogs. Global Ecology and Biodiversity, 29:1373–1386 - full text freely available here
Lemaître, J-F, V. Ronget, M. Tidiere, D. Allainé, V. Berger, A. Cohas, F. Colchero, D. Conde, M. Garratt, A. Liker, G. A.B. Marais, A. Scheuerlein, T. Székely & J-M. Gaillard. 2020. Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across wild mammals. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences US, 117 (15) 8546-8553 - full text freely available here
D’Urban Jackson, J., M. W. Bruford, T. Székely, J. DaCosta, M. D. Sorenson, S. V. Edwards, I-R. M. Russo, Kathryn Maher, Medardo Cruz-López, D. Galindo-Espinosa, A. E. De Sucre-Medrano, J. Cavitt, R. Pruner, A. L. Morales, O. Gonzalez, T. Burke & C. Küpper. 2020. Population differentiation and demography of the threatened snowy plover Charadrius nivosus estimated by four different genetic markers. Conservation Genetics, 21:387–404 - full text freely available here
Rice R., Valdebenito J. O., Ottensmann M., Engel N., Adrião A., Székely T. 2020. Breeding ecology of the Cream-coloured Courser in Cape Verde. Ostrich - Journal of African Ornithology ISSN: 0030-6525 (Print) 1727-947X (Online) - full text feerly available here
Székely T., 2020. Review of The Population Ecology and Conservation of Charadrius Plovers, Mark A., Haig C., Haig S. M. The Condor: Ornithological Applications Volume 122, 2020, pp. 1–2 - full text freely available here
Ancona S., Liker A., Carmona-Isunza MC., Székely T., 2020. Sex differences in age‐to‐maturation relate to sexual selection and adult sex ratios in birds. Evolution Letters https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.156
2019
Kubelka V., Sládeček M., Zámečník V., Vozabulová E., Šálek M. 2019. Seasonality predicts egg size better than nesting habitat in a precocial shorebird. Ardea 107: 239–250. - full text freely available here
Wang X., Maher K. H., Zhang N., Que P. et al. 2019. Demographic Histories and Genome-Wide Patterns of Divergence in Incipient Species of Shorebirds. Frontiers in Genetics doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00919 - full text freely availble here
Kubelka V., Mlíkovsky J., Zavadilová V., Frencl M., Ivanov A., Litvinov K., Šálek M. 2019. Pilot study on nest predation in shorebirds breeding at the Caspian steppe lakes, Wader Study, 126(2):142-150. - full text freely available here
Wang, X., Que, P., Heckel, G. et al. 2019. Genetic, phenotypic and ecological differentiation suggests incipient speciation in two Charadrius plovers along the Chinese coast. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19, 135. - full text freely available here
Kubelka V., Šálek M., Tomkovich P., Végvári Zs., Freckleton R. P., Székely T. 2019. Response to Comment on “Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds”. Science 364(6445):eaaw9893 - full text freely available here
Halimubieke N., Valdebenito J. O., Harding P., Cruz-López M., Serrano-Meneses M. A., James R., Kupán K., Székely T. 2019. Mate fidelity in a polygamous shorebird, the snowy plover (Charadrius nivosus), Ecology and Evolution 9(18): 10734–10745 - full text freely available here
Kubelka, V., Sládeček, M. & Šálek M. 2019. Great variability in nest lining size: support for thermoregulation but not for anti-predatory adaptation hypothesis. J Ornithol 160, 993–1002 - full text freely available here
Kingma, S. A. & Székely T. 2019. Social behaviour: males help when mates are rare. Current Biology 29, R370-R372 - full text freely available here
Székely T. 2019. Why study plovers? The significance of non-model organisms in avian ecology, behaviour and evolution. JOrnithol 160, 923–933 - full text freely available here
Bókony, V., G. Milne, I. Pipoly, Székely T. & Liker A. 2019. Sex ratios and bimaturism differ between temperature-dependent and genetic sex determination systems in reptiles. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19, 57 - full text freely available here
Que, P., Székely, T., Wang, P. et al. 2019. Offspring sex ratio is unrelated to parental quality and time of breeding in a multiple-breeding shorebird. J Ornithol 160: 443–452 - full text freely available here
2018
Kubelka V, Šálek M, Tomkovich P, Végvári Z, Freckleton R P, Székely T. 2018. Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds. Science 362: 680-683. full fext freely available here.
Eberhart-Phillips LJ, Carmona-Isunza MC, Vincze O, Zefania S, Kosztolányi A, Miller TEX, Barta Z, Cuthill I, Burke T, Küpper C, Székely T*, Hoffman JI*, Krüger O*. 2018. Demographic causes of adult sex ratio variation and their consequences for parental cooperation, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03833-5. R Markdown:
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