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Hugh Drummond is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a specialization in ecology and related subfields.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broader fields, their work concentrates on several subfields of study such as:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Parasitology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling

The main topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Bird parasitology and diseases
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Drummond has published several recent scientific papers, including:

  • "Parental overproduction allows siblicidal bird to adjust brood size to climate-driven prey variation" (2024), Behavioral Ecology
  • "The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis" (2023), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Apparent absence of avian malaria and malaria-like parasites in northern blue-footed boobies breeding on Isla Isabel" (2022), Scientific Reports
  • "Seasonal weather effects on offspring survival differ between reproductive stages in a long-lived neotropical seabird" (2022), Oecologia
  • "How removal of cats and rats from an island allowed a native predator to threaten a native bird" (2021), Biological Invasions

The scientist frequently contributes to these publication venues:

  • Animal Behaviour
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biological Invasions
  • Scientific Reports

Regular collaborators of Hugh Drummond include:

  • Cristina Rodríguez
  • Santiago Ortega
  • Sergio Ancona
  • Federico Roldán-Zurabián
  • María José Ruiz-López

Best Publications

  • Senescent birds redouble reproductive effort when ill: confirmation of the terminal investment hypothesis.

    Alberto Velando;Hugh Drummond;Roxana Torres

  • Food shortage influences sibling aggression in the blue-footed booby

    Hugh Drummond;Cecilia Garcia Chavelas

  • Parent-offspring cooperation in the blue-footed boody ( Sula nebouxii ): social roles in infanticial brood reduction

    Hugh Drummond;Edda González;José Luis Osorno

  • Better stay together: pair bond duration increases individual fitness independent of age-related variation

    Oscar Sánchez-Macouzet;Cristina Rodríguez;Hugh Drummond

  • Quatic Foraging in Garter Snakes: a Comparison of Specialists and Generalists

    Hugh Drummond

  • Dominance in vertebrate broods and litters.

    Hugh Drummond

  • Competition for Milk in the Domestic Rabbit: Survivors Benefit from Littermate Deaths

    Hugh Drummond;Elidee Vázquez;Salvador Sánchez‐Colón;Margarita Martinez‐Gómez

  • SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM AND SIBLING COMPETITION: IMPLICATIONS FOR AVIAN SEX RATIOS

    Hugh Drummond;Jose Luis Osorno;Roxana Torres;Cecilia Garcia Chavelas

  • Archiving primary data: Solutions for long-term studies

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

  • Hormonal Correlates of Dominance and Starvation‐induced Aggression in Chicks of the Blue‐footed Booby

    Alejandra Nuǹz-de la Mora;Hugh Drummond;John C. Wingfield

  • Training siblings to be submissive losers: dominance between booby nestlings

    Hugh Drummond;Jose Luis Osorno

  • Climatic influence on demographic parameters of a tropical seabird varies with age and sex.

    Daniel Oro;Roxana Torres;Cristina Rodríguez;Hugh Drummond

  • Global phenological insensitivity to shifting ocean temperatures among seabirds

    Katharine Keogan;Francis Daunt;Sarah Wanless;Richard A. Phillips

  • Senescence of maternal effects: aging influences egg quality and rearing capacities of a long-lived bird.

    René Beamonte‐Barrientos;Alberto Velando;Hugh Drummond;Roxana Torres

  • Variably male-biased sex ratio in a marine bird with females larger than males

    Roxana Torres;Hugh Drummond

  • The role of vision in the predatory behaviour of natricine snakes

    H. Drummond

  • A revaluation of the role of food in broodmate aggression

    Hugh Drummond

  • El Niño in the warm tropics: local sea temperature predicts breeding parameters and growth of blue-footed boobies.

    Sergio Ancona;Salvador Sánchez-Colón;Cristina Rodríguez;Hugh Drummond

  • Reversed Sexual Size Dimorphism and Parental Care: Minimal Division of Labour in the Blue-Footed Booby

    Maria Guerra;Hugh Drummond

  • Buffered development: resilience after aggressive subordination in infancy.

    Hugh Drummond;Roxana Torres;V. V. Krishnan

  • Simultaneous positive and negative density-dependent dispersal in a colonial bird species

    Sin-Yeon Kim;Roxana Torres;Hugh Drummond

  • Female-biased mortality in nestlings of a bird with size dimorphism

    Roxana Torres;Hugh Drummond

  • Variably male-biased sex ratio in a marine bird with females larger than males

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Frequent Co-Authors

Roxana Torres
Roxana Torres National Autonomous University of Mexico
Alberto Velando
Alberto Velando Universidade de Vigo
Daniel Oro
Daniel Oro Spanish National Research Council
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael P. Harris
Michael P. Harris UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Francis Daunt
Francis Daunt Natural Environment Research Council
John C. Wingfield
John C. Wingfield University of California, Davis
Sarah Wanless
Sarah Wanless Natural Environment Research Council
Andreas Zedrosser
Andreas Zedrosser University of South-Eastern Norway
Shinichi Nakagawa
Shinichi Nakagawa University of New South Wales

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