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112
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41359
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156
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Ben C. Sheldon is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular attention to ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's work spans several subfields, including ecology, ecological modeling, developmental biology, and nature and landscape conservation. Their research topics emphasize animal behavior and reproduction, species distribution and climate change, avian ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, animal vocal communication and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sheldon include:

  • Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals, 2022, Science
  • Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The expanding value of long-term studies of individuals in the wild, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology

Frequent co-authors in Sheldon's publications include:

  • Josh A. Firth
  • Ella F. Cole
  • Anne Charmantier
  • Marcel E. Visser
  • Charlotte E. Regan

Sheldon's work appears in various publication venues, most notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

In addition to journal articles, Sheldon has contributed to academic books, including a publication with Princeton University Press entitled Understanding Bird Behavior (2020).

Recognized for contributions in the field, Sheldon was named a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology

    Ben C. Sheldon;Simon Verhulst

  • Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Climate Change in a Wild Bird Population

    Anne Charmantier;Anne Charmantier;Robin H. McCleery;Lionel R. Cole;Chris Perrins

  • Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology.

    Tim Clutton-Brock;Ben C Sheldon

  • Differential allocation: tests, mechanisms and implications.

    Ben C. Sheldon

  • Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

    Lucy M. Aplin;Damien R. Farine;Julie Morand-Ferron;Andrew Cockburn

  • Constraints in the Evolution of Sex Ratio Adjustment

    Stuart A. West;Ben C. Sheldon

  • A quantitative review of heterozygosity–fitness correlations in animal populations

    J. R. Chapman;S. Nakagawa;D. W. Coltman;J. Slate

  • Infectious diseases, reproductive effort and the cost of reproduction in birds.

    Lars Gustafsson;Dag Nordling;Måns Sverker Andersson;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Male phenotype, fertility, and the pursuit of extra-pair copulations by female birds

    Ben. C. Sheldon

  • Genetic architecture of fitness and nonfitness traits: empirical patterns and development of ideas.

    Juha Merilä;Ben C Sheldon

  • Overlapping community detection using Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization

    Ioannis Psorakis;Stephen J Roberts;Mark Ebden;Ben Sheldon

  • Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

    Viktoriia Radchuk;Thomas Reed;Céline Teplitsky;Martijn van der Pol

  • Explaining stasis: microevolutionary studies in natural populations.

    J. Merilä;B. C. Sheldon;L. E. B. Kruuk

  • Ultraviolet colour variation influences blue tit sex ratios

    Ben C. Sheldon;Staffan Andersson;Simon C. Griffith;Jonas Örnborg

  • Sexually antagonistic genetic variation for fitness in red deer

    Katharina Foerster;Tim Coulson;Ben C. Sheldon;Josephine M. Pemberton

  • Sex ratio adjustment in relation to paternal attractiveness in a wild bird population.

    Hans Ellegren;Lars Gustafsson;Ben C. Sheldon

  • The misuse of BLUP in ecology and evolution.

    Jarrod D. Hadfield;Alastair J. Wilson;Dany Garant;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Genetic basis of fitness differences in natural populations

    Hans Ellegren;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds

    Lucy M. Aplin;Damien R. Farine;Julie Morand-Ferron;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Trade-offs between life-history traits and a secondary sexual character in male collared flycatchers

    Lars Gustafsson;Anna Qvarnström;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast–slow life‐history continuum

    Owen R. Jones;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Shripad Tuljapurkar;Jussi S. Alho

  • Recent studies of avian sex ratios

    Ben C Sheldon

Frequent Co-Authors

Damien R. Farine
Damien R. Farine University of Zurich
Juha Merilä
Juha Merilä University of Hong Kong
Anne Charmantier
Anne Charmantier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jon Slate
Jon Slate University of Sheffield
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Colin J. Garroway
Colin J. Garroway University of Manitoba
Loeske E. B. Kruuk
Loeske E. B. Kruuk University of Edinburgh
Matthew J.A. Wood
Matthew J.A. Wood University of Oxford
Hans Ellegren
Hans Ellegren Uppsala University
Dany Garant
Dany Garant Université de Sherbrooke

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