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D-Index
98
Citations
29033
World Ranking
316
National Ranking
50

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Alasdair I. Houston is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. The scientist's work spans several interconnected subfields, including sociology and political science, developmental and educational psychology, and genetics.

The main themes addressed in Houston's research include animal behavior and reproduction, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, evolution and genetic dynamics, wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, primate behavior and ecology, and child and animal learning development.

Houston has contributed to a number of scholarly publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • The American Naturalist

Their recent papers include:

  • Matching Behaviours and Rewards, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • A general framework for modelling trade-offs in adaptive behaviour, 2023, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • A critical review of risk-sensitive foraging, 2023, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Frequent collaborators in Houston's work are John M. McNamara, Olof Leimar, Sasha R. X. Dall, Christine Howard, and Stephen R. Baillie. These collaborations have contributed to an extensive body of work enhancing understanding in their fields of study.

Houston was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2012, recognizing their scientific contributions.

Best Publications

  • The behavioural ecology of personality: consistent individual differences from an adaptive perspective

    Sasha R. X. Dall;Alasdair I. Houston;John M. McNamara

  • State-dependent life histories

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • General results concerning the trade-off between gaining energy and avoiding predation

    Alasdair Ian Houston;John M. McNamara;John M. C. Hutchinson

  • The Common Currency for Behavioral Decisions

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Starvation and Predation as Factors Limiting Population Size

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • The sexual selection continuum.

    Hanna Kokko;Robert Brooks;John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Incorporating rules for responding into evolutionary games

    John M. McNamara;Catherine E. Gasson;Alasdair I Houston

  • Dynamic models in behavioural and evolutionary ecology

    Alasdair Houston;Colin Clark;John McNamara;Marc Mangel

  • The value of fat reserves and the tradeoff between starvation and predation.

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Honeybees maximize efficiency by not filling their crop

    Paul Schmid-Hempel;Alejandro Kacelnik;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Conflict between parents over care.

    Alasdair I. Houston;Tamás Székely;John M. McNamara

  • Capital breeding and income breeding: their meaning, measurement, and worth

    Philip A. Stephens;Ian L. Boyd;John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Integrating function and mechanism

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • The evolution of decision rules in complex environments

    Tim W. Fawcett;Benja Fallenstein;Andrew D. Higginson;Alasdair I. Houston

  • A framework for the functional analysis of behaviour

    Alasdair I. Houston;John M. McNamara

  • Optimal foraging and learning

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • The application of statistical decision theory to animal behaviour

    John McNamara;Alasdair Houston

  • Evolutionarily stable levels of vigilance as a function of group size

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Foraging routines of small birds in winter: a theoretical investigation

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston;Steven L. Lima

  • The optimal allocation of time during the diving cycle

    Alasdair I. Houston;Christopher Carbone

  • Risk-sensitive foraging: A review of the theory

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Genetic Algorithms and Evolution

    B.H. Sumida;A.I. Houston;A.I. Houston;J.M. McNamara;W.D. Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. McNamara
John M. McNamara University of Bristol
Zoltán Barta
Zoltán Barta University of Debrecen
Tamás Székely
Tamás Székely University of Bath
Philip A. Stephens
Philip A. Stephens Durham University
Innes C. Cuthill
Innes C. Cuthill University of Bristol
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Michael Mendl
Michael Mendl University of Bristol
Anders Hedenström
Anders Hedenström Lund University
Ruth Mace
Ruth Mace University College London
Alejandro Kacelnik
Alejandro Kacelnik University of Oxford

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