2025

• Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Hansson Frank, Tor; Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Goedert, Debora. (2025) Assessing the 'Small Population' Paradigm: The Effects of Stochasticity on Evolutionary Change and Population Growth in a Bird Metapopulation. Ecology Letters
  Letter to the editor
• Saatoglu, Fikriye Dilan; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Froy, Hannah; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Goedert, Debora; Reid, Jane Margaret. (2025) Metapopulation-level analyses reveal positive fitness consequences of immigration in a small bird. Journal of Animal Ecology
  Academic article

2024

• Gamelon, Marlene; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2024) The concept of critical age group for density dependence: Bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
  Academic article
• 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
• Chaverri, Gloriana; Sagot, Maria; Stynoski, Jennifer L.; Araya-Salas, Marcelo; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Nagy, Martina. (2024) Calling to the collective: Contact calling rates within groups of disc-winged bats do not vary by kinship or association. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
  Academic article
• Sandoval, Luis; Graham, Brendan; Sosa-López, J. Roberto; Laverde-R., Oscar; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo. (2024) THE STUDY OF BIRD VOCALIZATIONS IN NEOTROPICAL HABITATS: CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND FUTURE STEPS. Ornitologia Neotropical
  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

• Peignier, Mélissa; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Ringler, Max; Ringler, Eva. (2023) Personality traits differentially affect components of reproductive success in a Neotropical poison frog. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
  Academic article
• 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
• 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
• Munar-Delgado, Gabriel; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Edelaar, Pim. (2023) Estimation of additive genetic variance when there are gene–environment correlations: Pitfalls, solutions and unexplored questions. 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
• 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

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
• Chaloupka, Sarah; Peignier, Mélissa; Stückler, Susanne; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Walsh, Patrick; Ringler, Max. (2022) Repeatable Territorial Aggression in a Neotropical Poison Frog. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  Academic article
• Peignier, Mélissa; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Bégué, Lauriane; Chaloupka, Sarah; Dellefont, Katharina; Leeb, Christoph. (2022) Exploring links between personality traits and their social and non-social environments in wild poison frogs. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  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
• Saatoglu, Fikriye Dilan; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Kuismin, Markku; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Hagen, Ingerid Julie; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2021) Dispersal in a house sparrow metapopulation: An integrative case study of genetic assignment calibrated with ecological data and pedigree information. Molecular Ecology
  Academic article
• Dingemanse, Niels J.; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Westneat, David F.. (2021) Most published selection gradients are underestimated: Why this is and how to fix it. Evolution
  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

2020

• Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan. (2020) Pathways to social evolution and their eco-evolutionary feedbacks. Evolution
  Academic article
• Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Billing, Anna Maria; Holand, Håkon; Hagen, Ingerid Julie; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Husby, Arild. (2020) Consistent scaling of inbreeding depression in space and time in a house sparrow metapopulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
  Academic article
• Juárez, Roselvy; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Barrantes, Gilbert; Sandoval, Luis. (2020) House Wrens Troglodytes aedon reduce repertoire size and change song element frequencies in response to anthropogenic noise. IBIS
  Academic article
• Moiron, Maria; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Teplitsky, Céline; Bouwhuis, Sandra; Charmantier, Anne. (2020) Understanding the social dynamics of breeding phenology: indirect genetic effects and assortative mating in a long-distance migrant. The American Naturalist
  Academic article
• Westneat, David F.; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Allegue, Hassen; Class, Barbara; Dingemanse, Niels; Dochtermann, Ned A.. (2020) Collision between biological process and statistical analysis revealed by mean centring. Journal of Animal Ecology
  Academic article
• Schielzeth, Holger; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Nakagawa, Shinichi; Westneat, David F.; Allegue, Hassen; Teplitsky, Céline. (2020) Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  Academic article
• Chaverri, Gloriana; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Sagot, Maria. (2020) Contact calling in context: intra- and intergroup variation in vocalization rates depend on a call’s function. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  Academic article
• Dingemanse, Niels; Moiron, Maria; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Mouchet, Alexia; Abbey-Lee, Robin. (2020) Individual variation in age-dependent reproduction: Fast explorers live fast but senesce young?. Journal of Animal Ecology
  Academic article
• Jensen, Henrik; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Lundregan, Sarah; Samu, Attila. (2020) Spatio-temporal variation in phenotypic selection in a metapopulation of 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
• 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

• Moiron, Maria; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Mathot, Kimberley J; Mouchet, Alexia; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2019) Functional relations between body mass and risk-taking behavior in wild great tits. Behavioral Ecology
  Academic article
• 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
• 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
• Fried-Petersen, Hannah; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Futter, Martyn N.; Angeler, David G.. (2019) Drivers of long-term invertebrate community stability in changing Swedish lakes. Global Change Biology
  Academic article
• Jolles, Jolle W; Briggs, Helen D; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Boogert, Neeltje. (2019) Personality, plasticity and predictability in sticklebacks: bold fish are less plastic and more predictable than shy fish. Animal Behaviour
  Academic article

2018

• Abbey-Lee, Robin N; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Mouchet, Alexia; Moiron, Maria; Stuber, Erica F; Kempenaers, Bart. (2018) Does perceived predation risk affect patterns of extra‐pair paternity? A field experiment in a passerine bird. Functional Ecology
  Academic article
• Sonnweber, Ruth; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Behringer, Verena; Deschner, Tobias; Tkaczynski, Patrick; Fedurek, Pawel. (2018) Circadian rhythms of urinary cortisol levels vary between individuals in wild male chimpanzees: A reaction norm approach. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  Academic article
• 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

• Class, Barbara; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Brommer, Jon E.. (2017) A statistical methodology for estimating assortative mating for phenotypic traits that are labile or measured with error. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  Academic article
• 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
• Allegue, Hassen; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Dochtermann, Ned A.; Garamszegi, László Zsolt; Nakagawa, Shinichi. (2017) Statistical Quantification of Individual Differences (SQuID): an educational and statistical tool for understanding multilevel phenotypic data in linear mixed models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  Academic article
• Serrano-Davies, Eva; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Sanz, Juan Jose. (2017) Personality-related differences in response to habitat in Mediterranean blue tits. Ethology
  Academic article
• Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2017) Repeatability, heritability, and age-dependence of seasonal plasticity in aggressiveness in a wild passerine bird. Journal of Animal Ecology
  Academic article

2016

• Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Kuhn, Sylvia; Mathot, Kimberley J; Mouchet, Alexia; Mutzel, Ariane; Nicolaus, Marion. (2016) Sources of (co)variation in alternative siring routes available to male great tits (Parus major). Evolution
  Academic article