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David F. Westneat is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broad domains, they focus on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics covered in their work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Westneat has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Evolution
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution

Some recent papers include:

  • Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions, 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Longer telomeres during early life predict higher lifetime reproductive success in females but not males, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Most published selection gradients are underestimated: Why this is and how to fix it, 2021, Evolution
  • Pathways to social evolution and their evolutionary feedbacks, 2020, Evolution

Frequent collaborators in Westneat's research include:

  • Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy
  • Britt J. Heidinger
  • Niels J. Dingemanse
  • Jonathan Wright
  • Alexandra G. Cones

Best Publications

  • Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions

    Holger Schielzeth;Niels J. Dingemanse;Shinichi Nakagawa;David F. Westneat

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • DNA "fingerprinting" reveals high levels of inbreeding in colonies of the eusocial naked mole-rat

    Hudson K. Reeve;David F. Westneat;William A. Noon;Paul W. Sherman

  • Density and extra-pair fertilizations in birds: a comparative analysis

    David F. Westneat;Paul W. Sherman

  • Genetic parentage in the indigo bunting: a study using DNA fingerprinting

    David F. Westneat

  • Parentage and the evolution of parental behavior

    David F. Westneat;Paul W. Sherman

  • Evolutionary behavioral ecology

    Judith S. Weis;David F. Westneat;Charles W. Fox

  • The biology hidden inside residual within-individual phenotypic variation

    David F. Westneat;Jonathan Wright;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse

  • Extra-pair fertilizations in a predominantly monogamous bird: genetic evidence

    David F. Westneat

  • MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF PAIRING SUCCESS, EXTRA-PAIR COPULATIONS AND MATE QUALITY ON THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SEXUAL SELECTION

    Michael S. Webster;Stephen Pruett‐Jones;David F. Westneat;Stevan J. Arnold

  • Polygyny and extrapair fertilizations in eastern red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus)

    David F. Westneat

  • Individual Variation in Parental Care Reaction Norms: Integration of Personality and Plasticity

    David F. Westneat;Margret I. Hatch;Daniel P. Wetzel;Amanda L. Ensminger

  • Sex and parenting: the effects of sexual conflict and parentage on parental strategies.

    David F. Westneat;R. Craig Sargent

  • Alternative hypotheses linking the immune system and mate choice for good genes

    David F. Westneat;Tim R. Birkhead

  • Alternative mechanisms of nonindependent mate choice.

    David F. Westneat;Alena Walters;Thomas M. McCarthy;Margret I. Hatch

  • Extra-pair copulations in a predominantly monogamous bird: observations of behaviour

    David F. Westneat

  • Male parental care and extrapair copulations in the indigo bunting

    David F. Westneat

  • To Guard Mates or Go Forage: Conflicting Demands Affect the Paternity of Male Red-Winged Blackbirds

    David F. Westneat

  • Sperm Competition Selects Beyond Relative Testes Size in Birds

    Stefan Lüpold;George M. Linz;James W. Rivers;David F. Westneat

  • Archiving primary data: Solutions for long-term studies

    James A. Mills;Céline Teplitsky;Beatriz Arroyo;Anne Charmantier

  • Dietary amino acids influence plumage traits and immune responses of male house sparrows, Passer domesticus, but not as expected

    Joseph P. Poston;Dennis Hasselquist;Ian R.K. Stewart;David F. Westneat

  • Sperm competition in birds: Evolutionary causes and consequences

    David F. Westneat;Paul W Sherman

Frequent Co-Authors

Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Shinichi Nakagawa
Shinichi Nakagawa University of New South Wales
Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Paul W. Sherman
Paul W. Sherman Cornell University
Stefan Lüpold
Stefan Lüpold University of Zurich
Tim R. Birkhead
Tim R. Birkhead University of Sheffield
Bart Kempenaers
Bart Kempenaers Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Jonathan Wright
Jonathan Wright Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Denis Réale
Denis Réale University of Quebec at Montreal
Holger Schielzeth
Holger Schielzeth Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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