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Amanda R. Ridley is affiliated with the University of Western Australia. Their research focuses on environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Ridley's work extensively covers ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, and ecological modeling, with a particular emphasis on animal behavior and reproduction.

The scientist's research delves into key topics such as animal vocal communication and behavior, avian ecology and behavior, primate behavior and ecology, marine animal studies, species distribution in relation to climate change, and plant and animal studies. Their published output includes a number of papers in reputable venues, reflecting a sustained focus on the ecological and behavioral responses of animals to environmental challenges.

Recent notable papers include:

  • The impacts of heat stress on animal cognition: Implications for adaptation to a changing climate, 2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Hot droughts compromise interannual survival across all group sizes in a cooperatively breeding bird, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • High temperatures drive offspring mortality in a cooperatively breeding bird, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Compensatory Breeding in Years Following Drought in a Desert-Dwelling Cooperative Breeder, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis, 2022, Animal Behaviour

Ridley frequently collaborates with a group of researchers including Benjamin J. Ashton, Amanda R. Bourne, Alex Thornton, Susan J. Cunningham, and Grace Blackburn. These coauthors contribute to a range of interdisciplinary studies within environmental and biological sciences, often focusing on avian and cooperative breeding behaviors.

The scientist's work has been published multiple times in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Ibis
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Animal Behaviour

This publication record and research focus indicate a deep engagement with animal behavior in the context of ecological and environmental stressors. Their investigations into how heat stress and drought conditions affect survival, cognition, and reproductive success in cooperatively breeding birds contribute to understanding species' adaptations to changing climates.

Best Publications

  • The Costs of keeping cool in a warming world : implications of high temperatures for foraging, thermoregulation and body condition of an arid-zone bird

    Katherine L. du Plessis;Rowan O. Martin;Philip A. R. Hockey;Susan J. Cunningham

  • Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies

    Benjamin J. Ashton;Amanda R. Ridley;Emily K. Edwards;Alex Thornton

  • Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler

    Sabrina Engesser;Amanda R. Ridley;Simon W. Townsend

  • Deception by Flexible Alarm Mimicry in an African Bird

    Tom P. Flower;Tom P. Flower;Matthew Gribble;Amanda R. Ridley;Amanda R. Ridley

  • The effects of temperature on offspring provisioning in a cooperative breeder

    Elizabeth M. Wiley;Amanda R. Ridley

  • Experimental evidence for teaching in wild pied babblers

    Nichola J. Raihani;Amanda R. Ridley

  • Facultative response to a kleptoparasite by the cooperatively breeding pied babbler

    Amanda R. Ridley;Nichola J. Raihani

  • Variable postfledging care in a cooperative bird: causes and consequences

    Amanda R. Ridley;Amanda R. Ridley;Nichola J. Raihani

  • The value of constant surveillance in a risky environment

    Matthew B. Bell;Andrew N Radford;R Rose;H. M Wade

  • The cost of being alone: the fate of floaters in a population of cooperatively breeding pied babblers Turdoides bicolor

    Amanda R. Ridley;Nichola J. Raihani;Martha J. Nelson-Flower

  • Interrogating recent range changes in South African birds: confounding signals from land use and climate change present a challenge for attribution

    Philip A. R. Hockey;Clélia Sirami;Amanda R. Ridley;Guy F. Midgley

  • The impact of high temperatures on foraging behaviour and body condition in the Western Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen dorsalis

    Emily K Edwards;Nicola J Mitchell;Amanda R Ridley

  • Food availability affects strength of seasonal territorial behaviour in a cooperatively breeding bird

    K.A. Golabek;A.R. Ridley;A.N. Radford

  • Monogamous dominant pairs monopolize reproduction in the cooperatively breeding pied babbler

    Martha J. Nelson-Flower;Phil A.R. Hockey;Colleen O'Ryan;Nichola J. Raihani

  • Close-calling regulates spacing between foraging competitors in the group-living pied babbler

    Andrew N. Radford;Amanda R. Ridley

  • Recruitment Calling: A Novel Form of Extended Parental Care in an Altricial Species

    Andrew N. Radford;Amanda R. Ridley

  • Synchronous provisioning increases brood survival in cooperatively breeding pied babblers.

    Nichola J. Raihani;Nichola J. Raihani;Martha J. Nelson-Flower;Kelly Moyes;Lucy E. Browning

  • Inbreeding avoidance mechanisms: dispersal dynamics in cooperatively breeding southern pied babblers

    Martha J. Nelson-Flower;Philip A. R. Hockey;Colleen O’Ryan;Amanda R. Ridley;Amanda R. Ridley

  • The impacts of heat stress on animal cognition: Implications for adaptation to a changing climate

    Camilla Soravia;Benjamin J. Ashton;Benjamin J. Ashton;Alex Thornton;Amanda R. Ridley

  • Adult vocalizations during provisioning: offspring response and postfledging benefits in wild pied babblers

    Nichola J. Raihani;Amanda R. Ridley;Amanda R. Ridley

  • An intraspecific appraisal of the social intelligence hypothesis

    Benjamin J. Ashton;Alex Thornton;Amanda R. Ridley

  • Report Recruitment Calling: A Novel Form of Extended Parental Care in an Altricial Species

    Andrew N. Radford;Amanda R. Ridley

Frequent Co-Authors

Claire N. Spottiswoode
Claire N. Spottiswoode University of Cape Town
Andrew N. Radford
Andrew N. Radford University of Bristol
Cyril C. Grueter
Cyril C. Grueter University of Western Australia
Alex Thornton
Alex Thornton University of Exeter
Andrew E. McKechnie
Andrew E. McKechnie University of Pretoria
Philip A. R. Hockey
Philip A. R. Hockey University of Cape Town
Kelvin S.-H. Peh
Kelvin S.-H. Peh University of Southampton
Tara S. Stoinski
Tara S. Stoinski Georgia Institute of Technology
Marta B. Manser
Marta B. Manser University of Zurich
Andre Ganswindt
Andre Ganswindt University of Pretoria

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