Jonathan Wright

About

TEACHING

BI2044 Ethology - course leader

BI3040 Behavioural Ecology - course leader

BI8044 Evolutionary Behavioural Ecology - course leader

BI8083 Advanced Evolutionary Biology

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social evolution, the evolution of cooperation and conflict, parental care, parent-offspring conflict, cooperative breeding in birds. Individual variation, phenotypic plasticity, life-history evolution and adaptations to environmental stochasticity.

See: https://www.ntnu.edu/biology/wright-lab

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PUBLICATIONS (.pdf files available on request)

Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Westneat, D.F., Dingemanse, N.J. & Wright,J. (2023) The evolutionary ecology of behavioral variation and the expected evolutionary change of its among- and within-individual components. Evolution 77, 2246-2256.
Søraker, J.S., Wright,J., Hanslin, F.Ø. & Le Pepke, M. (2023) The evolution of extra-pair paternity and male contributions to different forms of parental care in birds. Behav. Ecol. 34, 780-789
Pick, J.L., Kasper, C., Allegue, H., Dingemanse, N, Dochtermann, N.A., Laskowski, K., Schielzeth, H., Westneat, D., Wright, J. & Araya-Ajoy, Y.G. (2023) Describing posterior distributions of variance components: problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation. Methods in Ecol. & Evol. 14, 2557-2574.
Fjelldal, M.A., Muller, S., Ratikainen, I.I., Stawski, C. & Wright, J. (2023b) The small-bat-in-summer paradigm: energetics and adaptive behavioural routines in bats investigated through a stochastic dynamic model. J. Anim. Ecol. 92, 2078-2093.
Le Pepke, M., Kvalnes, T., Wright, J., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Ranke, P.S., Boner, W., Monaghan, P., Sæther, B.-E., Jensen, H.& Ringsby, T.H. (2023) Longitudinal telomere dynamics within natural lifespans of a wild bird. Scientific Reports 13, 4272.
Carlsen, A.A., Wright, J., LorentsenS.-H. & Lea S.E.G. (2023b) Prey predictability may explain preparation versus recovery strategies in the surface durations of European shags diving in two different habitats. Ethology 129, 301-311.
Carlsen, A.A., Lorentsen,S.-H., Mattisson, J. & Wright, J. (2023a) Exploring the temporal non-independence of foraging dive and surface duration sequences in the European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis. Ethology 129, 254-268.
Fjelldal, M.A., Stawski, C., Søras, R. & Wright, J. (2023a) Determining torpor entries and arousals from skin-temperature data of bats. J. Therm. Biol. 111, 103396.
De Groot, C., Ratz, T., Wijnhorst, R., Murray, M., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Wright,J. & Dingemanse, N.J. (2023) The importance of distinguishing individual differences in ‘social impact’ versus ‘social responsiveness’ when quantifying indirect genetic effects on the evolution of social plasticity. Neurosci. & Biobehav. Rev. 104996.
Wright, J., Haaland, T.R., Dingemanse, N.J. & Westneat, D.F. (2022) A reaction norm framework for the evolution of learning: how cumulative experience shapes phenotypic plasticity. Biol. Rev. 97, 1999-2021.
Le Pepke, M., Kvalnes, T., Ranke, P.S., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Wright, J., Sæther, B.-E., Jensen, H.& Ringsby, T.H. (2022) Causes and consequences of variation in early-life telomere length in a bird metapopulation. Ecol. & Evol. 12, e9144.
Ranke, P.S., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Ringsby, T.H., Pärn, H., Saatoglu, D., Rønning, B., Jensen, H., Wright, J. & Sæther, B.-E. (2021) Spatio-temporal variation in dispersal in a house sparrow metapopulation: effects of population size and habitat type. J. Anim. Ecol. 90, 2767-2781.
Fjelldal, M.A., Wright, J. & Stawski, C. (2021) Nightly torpor use in response to weather conditions and individual state in an insectivorous bat. Oecologia. 197, 129-142.
Bonner, S., Kim, H.-N., Westneat, D., Mutzel, A., Wright, J. & Schofield, M. (2021) Dalmatian: a package for fitting double hierarchical linear models in R via JAGS and nimble. J. Statl. Software. 100, 1-25.
Parthasarathy, B., Somanathan, H. & Wright, J. (2021) Long-term behavioural syndrome in subadult Indian social spiders, but not over the short-term or in juveniles. Ethology 127, 1064-1073.
Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Niskanien, A., Ranke, P.S., Kvalnes, T., Rønning, B., Jensen, H., Ringsby, T.H., Sæther, B.-E. & Wright, J. (2021) Variation in generation time reveals density regulation as an important driver of individual pace of life in a bird metapopulation. Ecol. Lett. 24, 2077-2087.
Carlsen, A.A., Lorentsen, S.-H. & Wright, J. (2021) Recovery, body mass and buoyancy: a detailed analysis of foraging dive cycles in the European shag. Anim. Behav. 178, 247-265.
Haaland, T.R., Wright, J., & Ratikainen, I.I. (2021) Individual reversible plasticity as a genotype-level bet-hedging strategy. J. Evol. Biol. 34, 1022-1033.
Wetzel, D.P., Mutzel, A., Wright, J., & Dingemanse, N.J. (2020) Multivariate mixed models reveal novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior. Behav. Ecol. 31, 960-970.
Dingemanse, N.J: & Wright, J. (2020) Criteria for successful studies of animal personality and behavioural syndromes. Ethology (editorial) 126, 865-869.
Haaland, T.R., Wright, J., & Ratikainen, I.I. (2020) Generalists versus specialists in fluctuating environments: a bet-hedging perspective. Oikos 129, 879-890.
Engen, S., Wright, J., Araya-Ajoy, Y. & Sæther, B.-E. (2020) Phenotypic evolution in stochastic environments: the contribution of frequency- and density-dependent selection. Evolution 74, 1923–1941.
Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Westneat, D.F. & Wright, J. (2020) Pathways to social evolution and their eco-evolutionary feedbacks. Evolution 74, 1894–1907.
Wright, J., Solbu, E.B. & Engen, S. (2020) Contrasting patterns of density-dependent selection at different life stages can create more than one axis of life-history variation. Ecol. & Evol. 10, 3068-3078.
Haaland, T.R., Wright, J., & Ratikainen, I.I. (2019) Bet-hedging across generations can affect the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies within generations. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 20192070.
Mutzel, A., Olsen, A-L., Mathot, K.J., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Nicolaus, M., Wijmenga, J.J., Wright, J., Kempenaers,, B. & Dingemanse, N.J. (2019) Effects of manipulated levels of predation threat on parental provisioning and nestling begging. Behav. Ecol. 30, 1123-1135.
Einum, S., Ratikainen, I.I., Wright, J., Pélabon, C., Bech, C., Jutfelt, F., Stawski, C. & Burton, T. (2019) How to quantify thermal acclimation capacity? Global Change Biol. 1-2.
Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Ranke, P.S., Kvalnes, T., Rønning, B., Holland, H., Myre, A. M., Pärn, H., Jensen, H., Ringsby, T.H., Sæther, B.-E & Wright, J. (2019) Characterizing morphological (co)variation using structural equation models: body size, allometric relationships and evolvability in a house sparrow metapopulation. Evolution 73, 452-466.
Haaland, T.R., Wright, J., Tufto, J. & Ratikainen, I.I. (2019) Short-term insurance versus long-term bet-hedging strategies as adaptations to variable environments. Evolution, 73, 145-157.
Wright, J., Bolstad, G.H., Araya -Ajoy, Y.G. & Dingemanse, N.J. (2019) Life history evolution in a changing world and the adaptive alignment of pace-of-life syndromes. Biol. Revs. 94, 230-247.
Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Bolstad, G.H., Brommer, J., Careau, V., Dingemanse, N.J. & Wright, J. (2018) Individual measures of pace of life: fecundity, longevity, generation time or what? Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 72, 75.
Berdal, M.A., Rosenqvist, G. & Wright, J. (2018) Innovation as part of a wider behavioural syndrome in the guppy: the effect of sex and body size. Ethology 124, 760-772.
Ratikainen, I.I., Haaland, T. & Wright, J. (2018) Differential allocation of parental investment and the trade-off between offspring size and number. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 285, 20181074.
Raunsgard, A., Opedal, Ø.H., Ekrem, R.K., Wright, J., Bolstad, G.H., Armbruster, W.S. & Pélabon, C. (2018) Intersexual conflict over seed size is stronger in more outcrossed populations of a mixed-mating plant. PNAS 115, 11561-11566.
Westneat, D.F., Mutzel, A., Bonner, S., & Wright, J.. (2017) Experimental changes in brood size alter several levels of phenotypic variance in offspring and parent pied flycatchers. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 71, 91.
Mathot, K.J., Olsen, A-L., Mutzel, A., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Nicolaus, M., Westneat, D.F., Wright, J., Kempenaers,, B. & Dingemanse, N.J. (2017) Variance-sensitive provisioning tactics in the great tit (Parus major) in response to a long-term brood size manipulation. Behav. Ecol. 28, 1402-1413.
Haaland, T., Wright, J., Kuijper, B. & Ratikainen, I.I. (2017) Differential allocation revisited: when should mate quality affect parental investment? Am. Nat. 190, 534-546.
Wright, J. & McDonald, P G. (2016) Kin selected helping decisions of the bell miner. In: Cooperative Breeding: Studies of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. (Ed by Koenig, W. & Dickinson, J.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Westneat, D.F., Wright, J. & Dingemanse, N.J. (2015) The biology hidden within residual phenotypic variance. Biol. Rev. 90, 729-743.
Botero, C.A., Weissing, F.J., Wright, J. & Rubenstein, D.R. (2015) Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change. PNAS 112, 184-189.
Pélabon, C., Albertsen, E., Falahati-Anbaran, M., Wright, J. & Armbruster, W.S. (2015) Does multiple paternity affect seed size in angiosperms? An experimental test in Delachampia scandens. J. Evol. Biol. 28, 1719-1733.
Ratikainen, I.I. & Wright, J. (2013) Adaptive management of body mass in Siberian jays. Anim. Behav. 85, 427-434.
Westneat, D.F., Schofield, M. & Wright, J. (2013) Parental behavior exhibits between-individual variance, plasticity and heterogeneous residual variance. Behav. Ecol. 24, 598-604.
Mutzel, A., Blom, M.P.K., Spagopoulou, F., Wright, J., Dingemanse, N.J. & Kempenaers, B. (2013) Temporal trade-offs between nestling provisioning and defence against nest predators in blue tits. Anim. Behav. 85, 1459-1469.
Dingemanse, N.J., Barber, I., Wright, J. & Brommer, J. (2012) Quantitative genetics of behavioural reaction norms: genetic correlations between personality and behavioural plasticity vary across stickleback populations. J. Evol. Biol. 25, 485-496.
Mathot K.J., Wright, J, Kempenaers, B., & Dingemanse, N.J. (2012) Adaptive strategies for managing uncertainty may explain personality-related differences in behavioural plasticity. Oikos 121, 1009-1020.
Ratikainen, I.I., Henøen, L.R., Wright, J. & Kazem, A.J.N. (2012) Private and public information by foraging groups of wild Siberian jays. Anim. Behav. 83, 1243-1251.
Briga, M., Pen, I. & Wright, J. (2012) Care for kin: within-group relatedness and allomaternal care are positively correlated and conserved throughout the mammalian phylogeny. Biol. Lett. 8, 533-536.
Burger, C., Belskii, E., Eeva, T., Laaksonen, T., Mägi, M., Mänd, R., Qvarnström, A., Slagsvold, T., Veen, T., Visser, M.E., Wiebe, K.L., Wiley, C., Wright J., and Both, C. (2012) Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet: how temperature differentially affects seasonal changes in pied flycatcher diet depending on habitat variation. J. Anim. Ecol. 81, 926-936.
Wright, J. (2011) Honest begging: signals of need, quality and/or hunger. Behav. Ecol. 22, 920-921.
McDonald, P. G. & Wright, J. (2011) Bell miner provisioning calls are more similar among relatives and are used by helpers at the nest to bias their effort towards kin. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 278, 3403-3411.
Réale, D., Dingemanse, N.J., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2010) Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B., 365, 3937-3946.
Ratikainen, I.I., Wright, J. & Kazem, A.J.N. (2010) Social class influences degree of variance-sensitivity in wild Siberian jays. Behav. Ecol. 21, 1067-1072.
Wright, J. & Radford, A.N. (2010) Risk-sensitive green woodhoopoes: a new explanation for sex-specific differences in preferred foraging techniques. Ethology 116, 941-950.
Rollins, L.A., Holleley, C.E., Wright, J., Russell, A.F., & Griffith, S.C. (2010) Isolation and characterization of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the Apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea). Cons. Gen. Resour., 2, 229-231.
Wright, J., Karasov, W.H., Kazem, A.J.N., Goncalves, I.B. & McSwan, E. (2010) Begging and digestive responses to differences in long-term and short-term need in nestling pied flycatchers. Anim. Behav. 80, 517-525.
Dingemanse, N.J., Dochtermann, N. & Wright, J. (2010) A method for exploring the structure of behavioural syndromes to allow formal comparison within and between datasets. Anim. Behav. 79, 439-450.
Dingemanse, N.J., Kazem, A.J.N., Réale, D. & Wright, J. (2010) Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity. TREE 25, 81-89.
McDonald, P.G., Ewen, J.G. & Wright, J. (2010) Brood sex ratio does not affect helper effort in a cooperative bird, despite extreme sex-biased dispersal. Anim. Behav., 79, 243-250.
Wright, J., McDonald, P.G., te Marvelde, L., Kazem, A.J.N. & Bishop, C.M. (2010) Helping effort increases with relatedness in bell miners, but ‘unrelated’ helpers of both sexes still provide substantial care. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 277, 437-445.
Lykkja, O.N., Solberg, E.J., Herfindal, I., Wright, J., Rolandsen, C.M. & Hanssen, M.G. (2009) The effects of human activity on summer habitat use by moose. Alces 45, 109-124.
Griesser, M., Barnaby, J., Schneider, N.A., Figenschau, N., Wright, J., Griffith, S.C., Kazem, A..J.N. & Russell, A.F. (2009) Winter ranging behaviour and the organization of cooperative breeding groups in the apostlebird. Ethology 115, 888-896.
Russell, A.F. & Wright, J. (2009) Avian mobbing: by-product mutualism not reciprocal altruism. TREE 24. 3-5.
van de Pol, M. & Wright, J. (2009) A simple method for distinguishing within- versus between-subjects effects using mixed models. Anim. Behav. 77, 753-758.
te Marvelde, L., McDonald, P.G., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2009) Do helpers really help? Biomass of different food types delivered and nestling growth rates in the cooperatively breeding bell miner. Anim. Behav. 77, 727-735.
McDonald, P.G., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2009) Cooperative provisioning dynamics: fathers and unrelated helpers show similar responses to manipulations of begging. Anim. Behav. 77, 369-376.
Dall, S.X.R. & Wright, J. (2009) Rich pickings near large communal roosts favor 'gang' foraging by juvenile common ravens, Corvus corax. PLOS ONE 4(2), e4530. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004530.
Dingemanse, N.J., Van der Plas, F., Wright, J., Réale, D., Schrama, M., Roff, D.A., Van der Zee E., & Barber I. (2009) Individual experience and evolutionary history of predation affect expression of heritable variation in fish personality and morphology. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 276, 1285-1293.
McDonald, P.G., Kazem, A.J.N., Clarke, M.F. & Wright, J. (2008b) Helping as a signal: does removal of potential audiences influence helper provisioning behaviour in the cooperative bell miner? Behav. Ecol. 19, 1047-1055.
Sæther, B-E, Engen, S., Grøtan, V., Bregnballe, T., Both, C. Tryjanowski, P., Leivits, A., Wright, J., Møller, A.P., Visser, M. & Winkel, W. (2008) Forms of density regulation in (quasi-) stationary distributions of population sizes in birds. Oikos 117, 1197-1208.
McDonald, P.G. & Wright, J. (2008) Provisioning vocalizations in cooperative bell miner: more than a simple stimulus for nestling begging? Auk, 125, 670-678.
Smiseth, P.T., Wright, J. & Kölliker, M. (2008) Parent-offspring conflict and co-adaptation: behavioural ecology meets quantitative genetics. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 275, 1823-1830.
Pacheco, M.L., McDonald, P.G., Wright, J., Kazem, A.J.N. & Clarke, M.F. (2008) Helper contributions to anti-parasite behaviour in the cooperatively breeding bell miner (Manorina melanophrys). Behav. Ecol. 19, 558-566.
Wright, J. & Russell, A.F. (2008) How helpers help: disentangling ecological confounds from the benefits of cooperatively breeding. J. Anim. Ecol. 77, 427-429.
Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2008) The effect of food availability on begging performance and digestive efficiency. Ibis 150, 234-241.
McDonald, P.G., te Marvelde, L., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2008a) Helping as a signal and the effect of a potential audience during provisioning visits in a cooperative bird. Anim. Behav. 75, 1319-1330.
Wright, J. (2007) Cooperation theory meets cooperative breeding: exposing some ugly truths about social prestige, reciprocity and group augmentation. Behav. Proc. 76, 142-148.
Dingemanse, N.J., Wright, J., Kazem, A.J.N., Thomas, D., Hickling, R., & Dawnay, N. (2007) Behavioural syndromes differ predictably between 12 populations of three-spined stickleback. J. Anim. Ecol. 76, 1128-1138.
McDonald, P.G., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2007b) A critical analysis of ‘deceptive’ or ‘false feeding’ behaviour in a cooperative bird: disturbance effects, satiated nestlings or deceit? Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 61, 1623-1635.
Sæther, B-E, Engen, S., Grøtan, V., Fiedler, W., Matthysen, E., Visser, M.E., Wright, J., Adriansen, F., van Balen, H., Balmer, D., Mainwaring, M.C., McCleery, R.H., Pampus, M. & Winkel, W. (2007) The extended Moran effect and large-scale synchronous fluctuations in the size of great tit and blue tit populations. J. Anim. Ecol. 76: 315-325.
McDonald, P.G., Heathcote, C., Clarke, M.F., Wright, J. & Kazem, A.J.N. (2007a) Provisioning calls in the cooperatively breeding bell miner Manorina melanophyrs encode sufficient information for individual discrimination J. Avian Biol. 38, 113-121.
McDonald, P.G., Kazem, A.J.N., Clarke, M.F. & Wright, J. (2006) Altruistic acts as indicators of quality in a cooperative bird: are helpers-at-the-nest ‘showing off’? J. Ornith. 147, 9-10 (IOC Abstract).
Both C., Sanz J.J., Artemyev A.A., Blaauw B., Cowie R.J., Dekhuijzen A.J., Enemar A., Järvinen A., Nyholm N.E.I., Potti J., Ravussin P.-A., Silverin B., Slater F.M., Sokolov L.V., Visser M.E., Winkel W., Wright J. & Zang H. (2006) Pied flycatchers travelling from Africa to breed in Europe: differential effects of winter and migration conditions on breeding date. Ardea 94: 511-525.
Edelaar, P. & Wright, J. (2006) Potential prey make excellent ornithologists: adaptive flexible responses towards avian predation threat in Arabian babblers Turdoides squamiceps living in a migration hot-spot. Ibis 148, 664-671.
Wright J., Markman S. & Denney S.M. (2006) Facultative adjustment of pre-fledging mass in swifts. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 273, 1895-1900.
Yom-Tov, Y., Yom-Tov, S., Wright, J., Thorne, C.J.R. & du Feh, R. (2006) Recent changes in body weight and wing length in some British passerine birds. Oikos 112, 91-101.
Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2005) Evidence for learning during competitive positioning within the nest: do nestlings use ‘ideal free’ foraging tactics? Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 58, 227-236.
Leader, N., Wright, J. & Yom-Tov, Y. (2005) Acoustic properties of two urban song dialects in the orange tufted sunbirds (Nectarinia osea). Auk 122, 231-245.
Both, C., Artemyev, A.V., Blaauw, B., Cowie, R., Dekhuizen, H., Gustafsson, L., Järvinen, A., Kerimov, A., Metcalfe, N., Potti, J., Ravussin, P-A, Sanz, J.J., Silverin, B., Slater, F., Török, J., Winkel, W., Wright, J., Zang, H., Visser, M.E. (2004) Large-scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 271, 1657-1662.
Walling, C.A., Dawnay, N., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2004) Predator inspection in sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus): body size, local predation pressure and cooperation. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 56, 164-170.
Markman, S., Pinshow, B., Wright, J. & Kotler, B.P. (2004) Food patch use by parent birds: to gather food for themselves or for their chicks. J. Anim. Ecol. 73, 747-755.
Wright, J., Stone, R.E. & Brown, N. (2003) Communal roosts as structured information centres in the raven, Corvus corax. J. Anim. Ecol. 72, 1003-1014.
Blount, J.D., Houston, D.C., Møller, A.P. & Wright, J. (2003) Do individual branches of immune defence correlate? A comparative study of scavenging and non-scavenging birds. Oikos. 102, 340-350.
Martins, T.L.F., Blakey, J.K. & Wright, J. (2002) Low incidence of extra-pair paternity in the colonially-nesting common swift Apus apus. J. Avian Biol. 33, 441-446.
Markman, S., Pinshow, B. & Wright, J. (2002) Manipulation of food resources reveals sex-specific trade-offs between parental self-feeding and offspring care. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 269, 1931-1938.
Kokko, H., Johnstone, R.A. & Wright, J. (2002) The evolution of parental and alloparental effort in cooperatively breeding groups: when should helpers pay-to-stay? Behav. Ecol. 13, 291-300.
Wright, J., Hinde, C., Both, C. & Fazey, I. (2002) Begging signals more than just short-term need: cryptic effects of brood size in the pied flycatcher. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 52, 74-83.
Karasov, W.H. & Wright, J. (2002) Nestling Digestive Physiology and Begging. In: The Evolution of Begging: Competition, Cooperation and Communication (Ed by Wright, J. & Leonard ML), pp-199-219, Kluwyer Academic Press, Dordrecht, NL.
Wright, J. & Leonard, M.L. (2002) The Evolution of Begging: Competition, Cooperation and Communication. (edited proceeding from Begging Workshop, Gregynog 2000), Kluwyer Academic Press, Dordrecht, NL.
Leader, N., Wright, J. & Yom-Tov, Y. (2002) Dialect discrimination by male orange tufted sunbirds (Nectarinia osea): reactions to own versus neighbor dialects. Ethology 108, 367-376.
Karasov, W.H., McSwan E.L. & Wright, J. (2001) Begging and digestion by nestling pied flycatchers in relation to short- and long-term nutritional need. Am. Zool. 41, 1490-1490 (SIBC abstract).
Wright, J., Berg, E., de Kort, S., Khazin, V. & Maklakov, A. (2001c) Cooperative sentinel behaviour in the Arabian babbler. Anim. Behav. 62, 973-979.
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.
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.
Denny, A.J., Wright, J. & Grief, B. (2001) Foraging trail efficiency in the wood ant Formica rufa: is time of the essence? Anim. Behav. 62, 139-146.
Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2001b) Falling on deaf ears: the adaptive significance of begging in the absence of a parent. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 49, 474-481.
Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2001a) Begging in Nestling Birds. Current Ornithology 16, 83-118.
Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2000) Nestling diet, chick growth and breeding success in the southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis). Proc. 3rd Int. Shrike Symp. Gdansk 1999. The Ring 22, 165-172.
Leader, N., Wright, J. & Yom-Tov, Y. (2000) Microgeographic song variation in the orange-tufted sunbird (Necterinia osea). Behaviour 137, 1613-1637.
Yom-Tov, Y., Wright, J. & Both, C. (2000) Intraspecific nest parasitism and nest guarding in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca. Ibis 142, 331-332.
Whitehead, S., Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1999) Patterns of winter field use by starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) - how important is prey depletion? Bird Study 46, 289-298.
Wright, J. (1999b) Adaptive versus non-adaptive helping in cooperative breeders. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 46, 437-438.
Johnstone, R.A., Woodroffe, R., Cant, M.A. & Wright, J. (1999) Reproductive skew in multi-member groups. Am. Nat. 153, 315-331.
Wright, J., Parker, P., & Lundy K. (1999) Relatedness and chick-feeding effort in the cooperatively-breeding Arabian babbler. Anim. Behav. 58, 779-785.
Wright, J. & Dingemanse, N. (1999) Parents and helpers compensate for experimental changes in the provisioning effort of others in the Arabian babbler. Anim. Behav. 58, 345-350.
Cotton, P.A., Wright, J. & Kacelnik, A. (1999) Chick begging strategies in relation to brood hierarchies and hatching asynchrony. Am. Nat. 153, 412-420.
Wright, J. (1999a) Altruism as a signal: Zahavi’s alternative to kin selection and reciprocity. J. Avian Biol. 30, 108-115.
Markman, S., Pinshow, B. & Wright, J. (1999) Orange-tufted sunbirds do not feed nectar to their chicks. Auk 116, 257-259.
Wright, J., Both, C., Cotton, P.A. & Bryant, D. (1998) Quality versus quantity: energetic and nutritional trade-offs in parental provisioning strategies. J. Anim. Ecol. 67, 620-634.
Wright, J. (1998c) Paternity and Paternal Care. Chapter In: Birkhead, T.R. and Møller, A.P. Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection. Academic Press, London pp. 117-145.
Wright, J. (1998b) Helpers-at-the-nest have the same provisioning rule as parents: experimental evidence from playbacks of chick begging. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 42, 423-429.
Wright, J. (1998a) Helping-at-the-nest and group size in the Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps). J. Avian Biol. 29, 105-112.
Markman, S., Pinshow, B. & Wright, J. (1998) Quality of food eaten by parent sunbirds directly affects their brood-care effort. Ostrich 69, 196 (IOC abstract).
Wright, J. (1997) Helping-at-the-nest in Arabian babblers: signalling social status or sensible investment in chicks? Anim. Behav. 54, 1439-1448.
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.
Cotton, P.A., Kacelnik, K. & Wright, J. (1996) Chick begging as a signal: are nestlings honest? Behav. Ecol. 7, 178-182.
Whitehead, S., Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1996) Measuring the impact of parental foraging by starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, on soil invertebrates: an exclosure experiment. Oikos 76, 511-521.
Markman, S., Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright, J. (1996) The effect of male removal on female parental care in the Orange-Tufted Sunbird. Anim. Behav. 52, 437-444.
Markman, S., Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright, J. (1995) Male parental care in the Orange-Tufted Sunbird: behavioural adjustment in provisioning and nest guarding effort. Anim. Behav. 50, 655-669.
Whitehead, S., Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1995) Winter field use by the European Starling Sturnus vulgaris: habitat preferences and the availability of prey. J. Avian Biol. 26., 193-202.
Kacelnik, K., Cotton, P.A., Stirling, L. & Wright, J. (1995) Food allocation among nestling starlings: sibling competition and the scope of parental choice. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 259, 259-263.
Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1994b) Song versus food: trade-off decisions in a breeding colony of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Bird Study 41, 95-101.
Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1994a) Experimentally-induced sex differences in parental care: an effect of certainty of paternity? Anim. Behav. 47, 1311-1322.
Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright, J. (1993) The effect of heating nestboxes on egg laying in the Blue Tit, Parus caeruleus. Auk 110, 95-99.
Martins, T.L.F. & Wright, J. (1993c) Patterns of food allocation between parent & young under differing weather conditions in the Common Swift (Apus apus). Avocetta 17, 147-156.
Martins, T.L.F. & Wright, J. (1993b) The cost of reproduction and the allocation of food between parent and young in the common swift (Apus apus). Behav. Ecol. 4, 213-223.
Martins, T.L.F. & Wright, J. (1993a) Brood reduction in response to manipulated brood sizes in the common swift (Apus apus). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 32, 61-70.
Wright, J. (1992) Certainty of paternity and parental care. Anim. Behav. 44, 380-381.
Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1992) Monogamy in the European starling. Behaviour 120, 262-285.
Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1990b) Biparental care: short term manipulation of partner contribution and brood size in the starling Sturnus vulgaris. Behav. Ecol. 1, 116-124.
Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1990a) Manipulation of sex differences in parental care: the effect of brood size. Anim. Behav. 40, 462-471.
Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1989) Manipulation of sex differences in parental care. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 25, 171-181.
Hailey, A., Wright, J., & Steer, E. (1988) Population ecology and conservation of tortoises: the effects of disturbance. Herp. J. 1, 294-301.
Wright, J., Steer, E., & Hailey, A. (1988) Habitat separation in tortoises and the consequences for activity and thermoregulation. Can. J. Zool. 66, 1537-1544.

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ABRIDGED CV

Professor in Biology (Ethology), NTNU, Norway (2003-present)

Senior Lecturer in Animal Ecology UWB, UK (2002-2003)

Lecturer in Animal Ecology, UWB, UK (1996-2002)

NERC Research Fellowship, Cambridge, UK (1993-1996)

Post-doc Research Assistant, Oxford, UK (1990-1993)

D.Phil (Oxon) Zoology, Oxford, UK (1986-1990)

BSc (Hons) Ecology, 1st Class, UEA, UK (1983-1986)

Supervisor of 12 PhD students, 70 masters student og 51 honours student theses, more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers, >90 seminars og >150 international conference presentations, obtained >75 million NOK in research funds, editor for Ethology, J.Anim. Ecol. and Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B., referee for funding bodies in ten different countries, and for manuscripts for all international journals in behaviour, evolution and ecology.

Evolution

Publications

2024

Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Pepke, Michael Le; Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; David, Gabriel; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Wright, Jonathan. (2024) Long-distance dispersal in the short-distance dispersing house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Murray, Myranda; Wright, Jonathan; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo. (2024) Evolutionary rescue from climate change: male indirect genetic effects on lay-dates and their consequences for population persistence. Evolution Letters
Academic article

2023

de Groot, Corné; Wijnhorst, Rori E.; Ratz, Tom; Murray, Myranda Elizabeth; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) The importance of distinguishing individual differences in ‘social impact’ versus ‘social responsiveness’ when quantifying indirect genetic effects on the evolution of social plasticity. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Academic literature review
Carlsen, Astrid A.; Wright, Jonathan; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Lea, Stephen E.G.. (2023) Prey predictability and preparation versus recovery breathing strategies in European shags Gulosus aristotelis (L.) diving in different habitats. Ethology
Academic article
Pick, Joel; Kasper, Claudia; Allegue, Hassen; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Dochtermann, Ned A.; Laskowski, Kate L.. (2023) Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Pepke, Michael Le; Kvalnes, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Boner, Winnie. (2023) Longitudinal telomere dynamics within natural lifespans of a wild bird. Scientific Reports
Academic article
Carlsen, Astrid A.; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Mattisson, Jenny; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) Temporal non-independence of foraging dive and surface duration sequences in the European shag Gulosus aristotelis. Ethology
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari Aas; Muller, Amandine Sophie; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Stawski, Clare ; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) The small-bat-in-summer paradigm: Energetics and adaptive behavioural routines of bats investigated through a stochastic dynamic model. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari Aas; Stawski, Clare ; Sørås, Rune; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) Determining the different phases of torpor from skin-or body temperature data in heterotherms. Journal of Thermal Biology
Academic article
Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) The evolutionary ecology of variation in labile traits: selection on its among- and within-individual components. Evolution
Academic article
Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Wright, Jonathan; Hanslin, Fredrik Øglænd; Pepke, Michael Le. (2023) The evolution of extra-pair paternity and paternal care in birds. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article

2022

Pepke, Michael Le; Kvalnes, Thomas; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Wright, Jonathan; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2022) Causes and consequences of variation in early-life telomere length in a bird metapopulation. Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Jensen, Henrik; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Wright, Jonathan; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2022) Disentangling the age-dependent causal pathways affecting multiple paternity in house sparrows. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Haaland, Thomas; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Westneat, David F.. (2022) A reaction norm framework for the evolution of learning: how cumulative experience shapes phenotypic plasticity. Biological Reviews
Academic article

2021

Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt; Jensen, Henrik. (2021) Spatial structure and dispersal dynamics in a house sparrow metapopulation. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari Aas; Wright, Jonathan; Stawski, Clare . (2021) Nightly torpor use in response to weather conditions and individual state in an insectivorous bat. Oecologia
Academic article
Carlsen, Astrid A.; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) Recovery, body mass and buoyancy: a detailed analysis of foraging dive cycles in the European shag. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Pepke, Michael Le; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Jensen, Henrik; Kvalnes, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) The Ecological and evolutionary role of telomere length in house sparrows. Doctoral theses at NTNU (420)
Doctoral dissertation
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2021) Individual reversible plasticity as a genotype-level bet-hedging strategy. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Academic article
Wetzel, Daniel P.; Mutzel, Ariane; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2021) Novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior and hunger at different biological levels of analysis. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Froy, Hannah; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt. (2021) Variation in generation time reveals density regulation as an important driver of pace of life in a bird metapopulation. Ecology Letters
Academic article
Muller, Amandine Sophie; Jensen, Henrik; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Husby, Arild; Kvalnes, Thomas; Lundregan, Sarah. (2021) Effects of inbreeding on lay date in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Masters thesis
Parthasarathy, Bharat; Somanathan, Hema; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) Long-Term Behavioural Syndrome in Subadult Indian Social Spiders But Not Over the Short-Term or in Juveniles. Ethology
Academic article
Bonner, Simon; Mutzel, Ariane; Kim, Han-Na; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan; Schofield, Matthew. (2021) dalmatian: A Package for Fitting Double Hierarchical Linear Models in R via JAGS and nimble. Journal of Statistical Software
Academic article

2020

Wright, Jonathan; Solbu, Erik Blystad; Engen, Steinar. (2020) Contrasting patterns of density-dependent selection at different life stages can create more than one fast–slow axis of life-history variation. Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Wetzel, Daniel P.; Mutzel, Ariane; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2020) Multivariate mixed models reveal novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Dingemanse, Niels J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2020) Criteria for successful studies of animal personality and behavioural syndromes. Ethology
Editorial
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan. (2020) Pathways to social evolution and their eco-evolutionary feedbacks. Evolution
Academic article
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2020) Generalists versus specialists in fluctuating environments: a bet-hedging perspective. Oikos
Academic article
O'Shea, Myranda; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2020) The Role of Indirect Genetic Effects in Evolutionary Rescue. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Engen, Steinar; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2020) Phenotypic evolution in stochastic environments: The contribution of frequency- and density-dependent selection. Evolution
Academic article
Lundin, Thorbjørn; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2020) Network analysis of genetic relatedness using population dynamic simulations. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis

2019

Haaland, Thomas; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2019) Adaptive responses to environmental stochasticity on different evolutionary time-scales. NTNU
Doctoral dissertation
Lilleng, Simen; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt. (2019) Individual variation and indirect social effects in producer-scrounger behaviour in groups of house sparrows, Passer domesticus. NTNU
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Jutfelt, Fredrik; Finnøen, Mette Helene; Morgan, Rachael; Brusevold, Tine Elisabeth Dahl. (2019) Behavioural traits correlate in zebrafish (Danio rerio) selected for high and low upper thermal tolerance . NTNU
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2019) Life-history evolution under fluctuating density-dependent selection and the adaptive alignment of pace-of-life syndromes. Biological Reviews
Academic article
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Holand, Håkon; Myhre, Ane Marlene. (2019) Characterizing morphological (co)variation using structural equation models: Body size, allometric relationships and evolvability in a house sparrow metapopulation. Evolution
Academic article
Einum, Sigurd; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Pelabon, Christophe; Bech, Claus; Jutfelt, Fredrik. (2019) How to quantify thermal acclimation capacity?. Global Change Biology
Academic article
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Short‐term insurance versus long‐term bet‐hedging strategies as adaptations to variable environments. Evolution
Academic article
Mutzel, Ariane; Olsen, Anne-Lise; Mathot, Kimberley J; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Nicolaus, Marion; Wijmenga, Jan J. (2019) Effects of manipulated levels of predation threat on parental provisioning and nestling begging. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Carlsen, Astrid Anette; Wright, Jonathan; Lorentsen, Svein Håkon; Bech, Claus; Moe, Børge. (2019) Tests of the marginal value theorem in diving bouts of foraging trips in pairs of breeding European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis). NTNU
Masters thesis
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Bet-hedging across generations can affect the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies within generations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article

2018

Berdal, Monica Anderson; Rosenqvist, Gunilla; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Innovation as part of a wider behavioural syndrome in the guppy: The effect of sex and body size. Ethology
Academic article
Raunsgard, Astrid; Opedal, Øystein Hjorthol; Ekrem, Runa K; Wright, Jonathan; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Armbruster, William Scott. (2018) Intersexual conflict over seed size is stronger in more outcrossed populations of a mixed-mating plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Academic article
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Differential allocation of parental investment and the trade-off between size and number of offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Talal, Mohammad; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2018) Individual variation and indirect social effects in Producer-Scrounger behavior in the House Sparrow, Passer domesticus. NTNU
Masters thesis
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Brommer, Jon; Careau, Vincent; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Demographic measures of an individual's "pace of life": fecundity rate, lifespan, generation time, or a composite variable?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article

2017

Rye, Kristian; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas. (2017) Differential Allocation in Parental Care as a Strategy to Retain High Quality Partners. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Pettersen, Nils Håkon; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2017) Indirect social effects of the individual strategy in producer-scrounger foraging interactions. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Mathot, Kimberley J; Olsen, Anne-Lise; Mutzel, Ariane; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Nicolaus, Marion; Westneat, David F.. (2017) Provisioning tactics of great tits (Parus major) in response to long-term brood size manipulations differ across years. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Kuijper, Bram; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2017) Differential allocation revisited: When should mate quality affect parental investment?. The American Naturalist
Academic article
Westneat, David F.; Mutzel, Ariane; Bonner, Simon; Wright, Jonathan. (2017) Experimental manipulation of brood size affects several levels of phenotypic variance in offspring and parent pied flycatchers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article

2016

Wright, Jonathan; Finnøen, Mette Helene; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Personality and pace-of-life behavioral syndromes in a model species, the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2016) Kin selected helping decisions of the bell miner. Cambridge University Press
Chapter
Hammerås, John; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Covarying Behaviours and Innovation in a House Sparrow Metapopulation. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Olsen, Mirja Carola; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Linking variation in personality and behavioural syndromes to social foraging and producer-scrounger effects in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis

2015

Pelabon, Christophe; Albertsen, Elena; Falahati-Anbaran, Mohsen; Wright, Jonathan; Armbruster, William Scott. (2015) Does multiple paternity affect seed mass in angiosperms? An experimental test in Dalechampia scandens. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Academic article
Westneat, David; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2015) The biology hidden inside residual within-individual phenotypic variation. Biological Reviews
Academic article
Botero, Carlos A.; Weissing, Franjo J.; Wright, Jonathan; Rubenstein, Dustin R.. (2015) Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas Ray. (2015) A General Stochastic Dynamic Model of the Differential Allocation Hypothesis. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Rosenqvist, Gunilla; Berdal, Monica Anderson. (2015) Distinguishing animal personality and innovation in the guppy - the effect of sex and body size. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt; Sommerli, Sindre Lysfjord. (2015) Personality and Innovation in House Sparrows: Evolutionary and Demographic Consequences of Individual Phenotypic Differences. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis

2014

Wright, Jonathan; Humstad, Anne-Lise Haugdahl. (2014) Linking animal personality and innovation. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis

2013

Mutzel, Ariane; Blom, Mozes P. K.; Spagopoulou, Foteini; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Kempenaers, Bart. (2013) Temporal trade-offs between nestling provisioning and defence against nest predators in blue tits. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Sørheim, Maja Dineh; Wright, Jonathan; Linnell, John Durrus. (2013) Effekten av sosiale forstyrrelser på arealbruk og territoriestabilitet hos en aktivt forvaltet populasjon av gaupe (Lynx lynx). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2013) Adaptive management of body mass by Siberian jays. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Westneat, David; Schofield, Matthew; Wright, Jonathan. (2013) Parental behavior exhibits among-individual variance, plasticity, and heterogeneous residual variance. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article

Part of book/report

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2016) Kin selected helping decisions of the bell miner. Cambridge University Press
Chapter

Report

Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Jensen, Henrik; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Wright, Jonathan; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2022) Disentangling the age-dependent causal pathways affecting multiple paternity in house sparrows. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Pepke, Michael Le; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Jensen, Henrik; Kvalnes, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) The Ecological and evolutionary role of telomere length in house sparrows. Doctoral theses at NTNU (420)
Doctoral dissertation
Muller, Amandine Sophie; Jensen, Henrik; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Husby, Arild; Kvalnes, Thomas; Lundregan, Sarah. (2021) Effects of inbreeding on lay date in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Masters thesis
O'Shea, Myranda; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2020) The Role of Indirect Genetic Effects in Evolutionary Rescue. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Lundin, Thorbjørn; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2020) Network analysis of genetic relatedness using population dynamic simulations. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Haaland, Thomas; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2019) Adaptive responses to environmental stochasticity on different evolutionary time-scales. NTNU
Doctoral dissertation
Lilleng, Simen; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt. (2019) Individual variation and indirect social effects in producer-scrounger behaviour in groups of house sparrows, Passer domesticus. NTNU
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Jutfelt, Fredrik; Finnøen, Mette Helene; Morgan, Rachael; Brusevold, Tine Elisabeth Dahl. (2019) Behavioural traits correlate in zebrafish (Danio rerio) selected for high and low upper thermal tolerance . NTNU
Masters thesis
Carlsen, Astrid Anette; Wright, Jonathan; Lorentsen, Svein Håkon; Bech, Claus; Moe, Børge. (2019) Tests of the marginal value theorem in diving bouts of foraging trips in pairs of breeding European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis). NTNU
Masters thesis
Talal, Mohammad; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2018) Individual variation and indirect social effects in Producer-Scrounger behavior in the House Sparrow, Passer domesticus. NTNU
Masters thesis
Rye, Kristian; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas. (2017) Differential Allocation in Parental Care as a Strategy to Retain High Quality Partners. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Pettersen, Nils Håkon; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2017) Indirect social effects of the individual strategy in producer-scrounger foraging interactions. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Finnøen, Mette Helene; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Personality and pace-of-life behavioral syndromes in a model species, the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Hammerås, John; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Covarying Behaviours and Innovation in a House Sparrow Metapopulation. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Olsen, Mirja Carola; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Linking variation in personality and behavioural syndromes to social foraging and producer-scrounger effects in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas Ray. (2015) A General Stochastic Dynamic Model of the Differential Allocation Hypothesis. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Rosenqvist, Gunilla; Berdal, Monica Anderson. (2015) Distinguishing animal personality and innovation in the guppy - the effect of sex and body size. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt; Sommerli, Sindre Lysfjord. (2015) Personality and Innovation in House Sparrows: Evolutionary and Demographic Consequences of Individual Phenotypic Differences. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Humstad, Anne-Lise Haugdahl. (2014) Linking animal personality and innovation. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Masters thesis
Sørheim, Maja Dineh; Wright, Jonathan; Linnell, John Durrus. (2013) Effekten av sosiale forstyrrelser på arealbruk og territoriestabilitet hos en aktivt forvaltet populasjon av gaupe (Lynx lynx). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2012) Foraging in a variable world. Adaptations to stochasticity. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Doctoral dissertation
Wright, Jonathan; Fliflet, Henrik Rasmussen; Solberg, Erling Johan; Van Moorter, Bram F. A.; Rolandsen, Christer Moe. (2012) Spatial and Temporal Variation in Moose (Alces alces) Road Crossings. MSc Thesis. NTNU
Masters thesis
Berne, Erlend; Wright, Jonathan. (2011) Safe, selfish, state-independent mobbing in the cooperatively breeding apostlebirds. NTNU
Masters thesis
Austad, Tor Martin; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2010) Influence of sex ratio and perceived competition upon mate choice decisions in a speed-dating context. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Masters thesis
Sødal, Liv Randi Henøen; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2010) An experimental test of optimal sampling behaviour in Siberian jays (Perisoreus infaustus). NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Masters thesis
Vestues, Gro; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) The mating system of the Svalbard reindeer. Effects of male age and antler size on harem size, behaviour during the rutting season and reproductive effort. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Masters thesis
Benestad, Lars; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) Does interest from the opposite sex influence mate choice in a speedd-dating context?. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Masters thesis
Aksnes, Leif Haraldson; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) "False-feeding" helping behaviour in the cooperative apostlebird, Struthidea cinerea. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Masters thesis
Olsen, Anne-Lise; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) Provisioning dynamics in the cooperative apostlebird Struthidea cinerea. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Masters thesis
Grøntvedt, Trond Viggo; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Flexible aspirations in a mutual mate choice system: does courtship interest received influence partner preferences?. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Masters thesis
Figenschau, Nina; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) Nest site selection and habitat saturation in the cooperatively breeding Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Masters thesis
Hanssen, Martin Georg; Wright, Jonathan; Solberg, Erling Johan; Herfindal, Ivar. (2008) Summer movement patterns of moose (Alces alces) in central Norway. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Masters thesis
Lykkja, Odd N.; Wright, Jonathan; Solberg, Erling Johan; Herfindal, Ivar. (2008) The Limiting Effects Of Human Infrastructure And Activity Centers On Moose (Alces alces) Habitat Use During The Summer Season. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Masters thesis
Wright, Jonathan. (2004) A report on long-term UK population trends in thepied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca). Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)
Report

Teaching

Courses

Knowledge Transfer

2022

Academic lecture

Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Wright, Jonathan; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Jensen, Henrik. (2022) Disentangling the age-dependent causal pathways affecting multiple paternity in house sparrows. Oxford University IX Hole-Nesting Bird Conference , Oxford 2022-09-06 - 2022-09-08
Poster

Pepke, Michael Le; Kvalnes, Thomas; Boner, Winnie; Monaghan, Pat; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Lundregan, Sarah. (2022) Causes and consequences of variation in early-life telomere length in a bird metapopulation. Nordic Society Oikos 5th Conference of Nordic Society OIKOS 2022 , Aarhus 2022-06-07 - 2022-06-10
Poster

Pepke, Michael Le; Kvalnes, Thomas; Boner, Winnie; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Lundregan, Sarah; Ranke, Peter Sjolte. (2022) The ecological and evolutionary role of early-life telomere length in wild house sparrows . European Society for Evolutionary Biology Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2022 , Praha 2022-08-14 - 2022-08-19
Poster

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2022) Individual reversible plasticity as a genotype-level bet-hedging strategy. European Society of Evolutionary Biology ESEB 2022 , Praha 2022-08-14 - 2022-08-19

2021

Lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2021) Somatic investment: an unresolved issue in life-history theory. Department of Zoology Zoology On-Line Colloquium , University of Hamburg 2021-11-16 - 2021-11-16

2020

Academic lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2020) Phenotypic plasticity as a bet-hedging strategy. Centre for Biodivesity Dynamics EvoDemo , Røros 2020-10-06 - 2020-10-11

2019

Poster

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Bet-hedging affects the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies. European Society for Evolutionary Biology ESEB 2019 , Turku 2019-08-19 - 2019-08-24
Academic lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Bet-hedging affects the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies. Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour ASAB Summer 2019 , Konstanz 2019-08-26 - 2019-08-28
Poster

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Bet-hedging affects the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies. Modelling Ecology and Evolution in Zürich , Zürich 2019-06-24 - 2019-06-25

2018

Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2018) Characterizing morphological (co)variation using structural equation models: body size, allometric relationships & evolvability in house sparrows. Dr Yimen Araya-Ajoy SEM & Path Anaylsis Workshop , San Jose Univeristy 2018-12-10 - 2018-12-15
Academic lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2018) Variable environments and the evolution of bet-hedgers, generalists and specialists. Nordic Society Oikos OIKOS 2018 , Trondheim 2018-02-19 - 2018-02-22
Poster

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2018) Variable environments and the evolution of bet-hedgers, generalists and specialists. ESEB / SSE Evolution 2018 , Montpellier 2018-08-18 - 2018-08-22
Academic lecture

Botero, Carlos A.; Haaland, Thomas; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Life history determines vulnerability and capacity to adapt to more frequent and intense extreme weather events. ESEB / SSE Evolution 2018 , Montpellier 2018-08-18 - 2018-08-22
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2018) Life History Evolution in a Changing World: r- versus K-selection & Pace-of-Life Syndromes. Prof. Christiaan Both Life History Theory course on Schiermonnikoog, NL , Schiermonnikoog 2018-03-11 - 2018-03-16

2017

Poster

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Botero, Carlos A.. (2017) A simulation model of the evolution of transgenerational plasticity in fluctuating environments. ESEB 2017 , Groningen 2017-08-20 - 2017-08-25
Academic lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2017) Partner quality effects on optimal parental investment. Departmental seminar 2017-05-11 -
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2017) Life History Evolution in a Changing World & the Adaptive Alignment of Pace-of-Life Syndromes. CSIC CSIC Seminar Series , Seville 2017-06-08 - 2017-06-08
Academic lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2017) Social decision making in a fluctuating world: A simulation model of a Producer-Scrounger foraging game. Norsk Økologisk Forening NØF 2017 , Oslo 2017-01-11 - 2017-01-13
Academic lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Botero, Carlos A.; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2017) Adaptations to uncertainty: Asymmetric fitness functions and fluctuating environments. European Society for Evolutionary Biology ESEB 2017 , Groningen 2017-08-20 - 2017-08-25
Poster

Pedersen, Michael Pepke; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Boner, Winnie; Jensen, Henrik; Wright, Jonathan. (2017) Consequences of opposing body size selection regimes on telomere dynamics in wild house sparrows. European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) 16th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) , Groningen 2017-08-20 - 2017-08-25
Poster

Pedersen, Michael Pepke; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Boner, Winnie; Jensen, Henrik; Wright, Jonathan. (2017) Telomere dynamics of wild house sparrows under artificial body size selection. Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, NTNU 8th International Hole-Nesting Birds Conference , Trondheim 2017-10-30 - 2017-11-02
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2017) Student workshop on: The hierarchical nature of evolution in natural populations: a mixed model approach . Biology Department, University of Costa Rica Graduate Student Workshop , University of Costa Rica 2017-12-13 - 2017-12-15

2016

Academic lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2016) A General Stochastic Dynamic Model of the Differential Allocation Hypothesis. ISBE - International Society for Behavioral Ecology ISBE2016 , University of Exeter 2016-07-28 - 2016-08-03
Academic lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2016) Differential Allocation - A New Theoretical Framework. Uppsala Universitet EMPSEB22 - European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology , Gotland 2016-09-11 - 2016-09-16
Lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2016) Study design and sampling decisions in mixed-effect model analyses. CBD SQuID CBD SQuID Study design and sampling decisions in mixed-effect model analyses , Sletvik, NTNU 2016-10-03 - 2016-10-09
Lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2016) Modelling POLS. VW Towards a general theory of the pace-of-life syndrome , Hannover 2016-07-12 - 2016-07-16
Academic lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2016) Differential parental allocation to offspring size vs number. The University of Exeter ISBE 2016 , Exeter 2016-07-28 - 2016-08-03

2015

Academic lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas Ray; Wright, Jonathan. (2015) A general stochastic dynamic model of the differential allocation hypothesis. Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution 2015 , Paris 2015-07-07 - 2015-07-11
Lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2015) The conceptual context of characterizing multivariate phenotypes, genotypes and functional units. CBD-IMPRS Workshop on Statistical Approaches to Multivariate Phenotypes , MPIO Seeweisen 2015-01-11 - 2015-01-16
Lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Araya Ajoy, Yimen; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2015) Life History Evolution in a Changing World & the Adaptive Alignment of Pace-of-Life Syndromes. Towards a general theory of the pace-of-life syndrome , Hannover 2015-10-14 - 2015-10-16

2014

Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2014) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Max Plank Institute for Ornithology , Seewiesen 2014-03-14 - 2014-03-19
Lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2014) Evolution in Stochastic Environments. Jonathan Wright, CBD CBD Workshop on 'Evolution in Stochastic Environments' , CBD, NTNU, Trondheim 2014-01-13 -
Academic lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2014) Variance sensitivity and other adaptations to variable environments. Visit to the "Modeling Animal Decisions" group 2014-10-20 - 2014-10-22
Academic lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2014) Adaptations to stochasticity at multiple levels. Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics CBD Workshop on 'Evolution in Stochastic Environments' , Trondheim 2014-01-13 - 2014-01-15

2012

Interview

Wright, Jonathan; Nordahl, Marianne. (2012) En trekkfugls beslutninger. Forskning.no Forskning.no [Internet] 2012-10-04
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2012) Sex, Showing-Off and Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. CEES Seminar , University of Oslo 2012-02-03 - 2012-02-03
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels; Dochterman, Ned. (2012) Correctly Characterising Phenotypes(Characterising Behavioural Traits, Personalities & Syndromes). CEES Late Lunch , University of Oslo 2012-02-02 - 2012-02-02
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2012) Adaptive Responses to Environmental Stochasticity. Departmental Seminar , University of Bern 2012-04-25 - 2012-04-25
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, NJ; Dochterman, Ned. (2012) Correctly Characterising Phenotypes (Characterising Behavioural Traits, Personalities & Syndromes). Hasli Research Station , University of Bern 2012-04-24 - 2012-04-24
Academic lecture

Dingemanse, Niels; Dochterman, Ned; Wright, Jonathan; Barber, Iain. (2012) Genetic Constraints Imposed by Personality Structure. ISBE 14th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology , University of Lund 2012-08-12 - 2012-08-18
Academic lecture

Warrington, M; McDonald, Paul G.; Russell, AF; Wright, Jonathan; Griffith, Simon C.. (2012) All Signals are not Equally Informative: Acoustic Signalling of Kinship and Social Membership in the Apostlebird. ISBE 14th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology , University Lund 2012-08-12 - 2012-08-18
Academic lecture

McDonald, Paul G.; Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Bell miner call similarity correlates positively with both fine-scale kinship and helper effort. ASSAB ASSAB Conference , Melbourne 2012-06-26 - 2012-06-28
Academic lecture

Warrington, M; McDonald, Paul G.; Russell, AF; Wright, Jonathan; Griffith, Simon C.. (2012) All signals are not equally informative: acoustic signalling of kinship and social membership in the cooperatively breeding Apostlebird, Struthidea cinerea. ASSAB ASSAB Conference , Melbourne 2012-06-26 - 2012-06-28
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2012) Sex, Showing-Off and Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Departmental Seminar , BIDR, Sde Boker Campus, Ben Gurion University 2012-10-30 - 2012-10-30
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2012) Adaptations to Environmental Stochasticity. Departmental Seminar , University of Haifa 2012-10-24 - 2012-10-24
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Artificiality in Cognition Experiments - Are We Asking The Right Questions?. Mathias Osvath & Thomas Bugnyar Pre-ISBE Conference Symposium on 'Corvids as model systems for combining cognitive ethology and behavioural ecology' , University Lund 2012-08-11 - 2012-08-11
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Alternative Reproductive Tactics: A Behavioural Reaction Norms Approach. Michael Taborsky & Joachim Frommen CUSO Inter-University Doctoral Program in Ecology and Evolution , Adelboden 2012-08-04 - 2012-08-07
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2012) Adaptive Responses to Environmental Stochasticity. ISBE 14th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology , University of Lund 2012-08-12 - 2012-08-18
Poster

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Adaptive Management of Individual Body Mass in Wild Groups of Siberian Jays. ISBE 14th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology , University of Lund 2012-08-12 - 2012-08-18
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2012) Sex, Showing-Off and Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Departmental Seminar , Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University 2012-11-07 - 2012-11-07
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2012) Adaptations to Environmental Stochasticity. Departmental Seminar , Department of Biology, University of Jerusalem 2012-11-06 - 2012-11-06

2011

Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2011) Characterising behavioural traits, personalities and syndromes. Dr Darryl Jones Departmental Seminar , Griffith University, Brisbane 2011-10-27 - 2011-10-27

2010

Academic lecture

McDonald, Paul G.; Tripovich, Joy; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) Mew calls at the nest encode relatedness: providing a mechanism for the fine-scale effect of kinship on help. ISBE ISBE 2010 , Perth 2010-09-26 - 2010-10-02
Poster

Wright, Jonathan; Berne, Erlend; Wascher, Claudia, A.F.; Morrison, Erin; Wordley, Claire; Griffith, Simon C.. (2010) Safe, selfish state-independent mobbing behaviour in a cooperatively breeding bird?. ISBE ISBE 2010 , Perth 2010-09-26 - 2010-10-02
Academic lecture

Wascher, Claudia, A.F.; Palme, Rupert; Morrinson, Erin; Wordley, Claire; Berne, Erlend; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) Social behaviour, stress and faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in a cooperatively breeding bird. ISBE ISBE 2010 , Perth 2010-09-26 - 2010-10-02
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2010) Sex, Showing-Off and Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Max Planck Institute Research Seminar 2010-11-23 -
Academic lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Sødal, Liv Randi Henøen; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita J.N.. (2010) Optimal sampling, private and public information use in foraging by wild Siberian Jays. ISBE ISBE 2010 , Perth 2010-09-26 - 2010-10-02

2009

Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Edinburgh Departmental Seminar 2009-04-25 - 2009-04-25
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Institute of Zoology, London Zoo Institute Seminar 2009-05-04 - 2009-05-04
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Information sharing at communal roosts: strategies of recruitment and defence of food bonanzas by ravens. Konrad Lorenz Institute, Grünau KLIVV Seminar 2009-12-14 - 2009-12-15
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Oxford EGI Seminar 2009-05-01 - 2009-05-01
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Departmental Seminar 2009-04-21 - 2009-04-21
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Information sharing at communal roosts: strategies of recruitment and defence of food bonanzas by ravens. Max Plank Institute of Field Ornithology, Seewessien Institute Seminar 2009-12-17 - 2009-12-17

2008

Academic lecture

Bednekoff, Peter; Kazem, Anahita J.N.; Wright, Jonathan. (2008) The Evolution Of Cooperative Mobbing Effort: A Dynamic Modelling Approach. ISBE ISBE 2008 , Cornell 2008-08-09 - 2008-08-14
Poster

Barnaby, Jonathan; Griesser, Michael; Wright, Jonathan; Griffith, Simon C.; Russell, AF. (2008) The social consequences of winter ranging behaviour in the Apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea). ISBE ISBE 2008 , Cornell 2008-08-09 - 2008-08-14
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. KLIVV 2008-03-05 - 2008-03-05
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Uppsala 2008-01-23 - 2008-01-23
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Göteborg 2008-01-21 - 2008-01-21
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. KLIVV Grünau 2008-03-08 - 2008-03-08
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Bern 2008-03-11 - 2008-03-11
Academic lecture

McDonald, PG; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) Effects of Helper Sex, Relatedness and Brood Sex Ratio on Cooperative Provisioning Effort in Bell Miners. Australian Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Australian Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference , Coffs Harbour 2008-03-01 - 2008-03-05
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Zurich 2008-03-13 - 2008-03-13
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, PG; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) Effects of Helper Sex, Relatedness and Brood Sex Ratio on Cooperative Provisioning Effort in Bell Miners. British Ecological Society British Ecological Society Annual Meeting , Imperial College, London 2008-09-03 - 2008-09-05
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Basel 2008-03-17 - 2008-03-17
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) What is ‘interesting’ about personality? Some less-explored themes and their implications. ASAB European Conference of Behavioural Biology , Dijon 2008-07-18 - 2008-07-21
Academic lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) Social class influences variance-sensitivity in wild Siberian jays: gambling to survive vs to reproduce?. ISBE (12th congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology) , Cornell University 2008-08-09 - 2008-08-15

2006

Documentary

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) 'Spring'. BBC BBC [TV] 2006-04-01
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Birds go on diets to avoid dropping. New Scientist New Scientist [Newspaper] 2006-05-15
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) How chubby young birds lose fat to fly. NewScientist.com NewScientist.com [Internet] 2006-07-11
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Fugler på diett før jomfrutur. Forskning.no Forskning.no [Internet] 2006-06-08
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Mauersegler: Schlank durch Liegestütze. ORF ON Science ORF ON Science [Internet] 2006-05-23
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Weight loss on the wing. Science (Magazine) AAAS (http://sciencenow.science.org) Science (Magazine) AAAS (http://sciencenow.science.org) [Newspaper] 2006-05-05
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Swifts do push-ups to get flight fit. The Guardian (Science) Unlimited (http://www.guardian.co.uk) The Guardian (Science) Unlimited (http://www.guardian.co.uk) [Newspaper] 2006-05-05
Academic lecture

Kazem, Anahita; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Protean punishment of the risk-averse: why unpredictable social behaviour is adaptive. RuG , Groningen 2006-09-02 - 2006-09-05
Academic lecture

McDonald, Paul; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Helping as a signal versus investment in brood fitness in the cooperatively breeding bell miner. ISBE , Tours 2006-07-23 - 2006-07-29
Academic lecture

Dingemanse, Niels; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Constraints on the evolution of behavioural syndromes?. SEQBC , Montreal 2006-10-01 - 2006-10-06
Academic lecture

Kazem, Anahita; Bednekoff, Peter; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Cooperative mobbing as a selfish state-dependent mutualism. ECBB/ASAB , Belfast 2006-09-04 -
Academic lecture

McDonald, Paul; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Altruistic acts as indicators of quality in a cooperative breeder: Are helpers-at-the-nest ‘showing off’?. IOC , Hamburg 2006-08-13 - 2006-08-19
Poster

te Marvelde, Luc; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Do helpers really help? Detailed analysis of prey types delivered and nestling growth rates in the cooperatively breeding bell miner. ISBE , Tours 2006-07-23 - 2006-07-29
Poster

Schmaltz, Gregory; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Influence of yolk hormones and nestling testosterone levels on chick begging behaviour in the plural-breeding joint-nesting smooth-billed ani. ISBE , Tours 2006-07-23 - 2006-07-29
Poster

Pachedo, Maria; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Anti-parasite nest sanitation behaviour in a cooperative bird: helpers do their share of the work. ISBE , Tours 2006-07-23 - 2006-07-29

2004

Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2004) Risk sensitive woodhoopoes. University of La Trobe 2004-11-01 -
Academic lecture

Kazem, Anahita; Wright, Jonathan; Kokko, Hanna. (2004) Protean punishment of the risk-averse: why unpredicatable social behaviour is adaptive. ISBE 10th International Congress of the Society for Behavioural Ecology , Jyväsklyä 2004-07-10 - 2004-07-15
Academic lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Radford, Andrew. (2004) Risk-sensitive woodhoopoes: a new explanation for sex-specific differences in preferred foraging techniques. ISBE 10th International Congress of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology , Jyväsklyä 2004-07-10 - 2004-07-15
Academic lecture

Kazem, Anahita; Wright, Jonathan. (2004) Protean punishment of the risk averse: the adaptive significance of unpredictable social behaviour. University of Melbourne 2004-11-15 -
Academic lecture

Dingemanse, Niels; Thomas, Dawn; Wright, Jonathan; Hickling, Rachael; Dawnay, Nick; Kazem, Anahita. (2004) Correlations between behavioural traits differ between selective environments in three-spined stickleback. ISBE 10th International Congress of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology , Jyväskylä 2004-07-10 - 2004-07-15

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