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Overview

Jonathan Wright is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science.

The main subfields of study for Wright include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Ecology; Genetics; Global and Planetary Change; and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work spans several key topics, emphasizing Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Marine Animal Studies Overview, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wright are:

  • Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy (15 co-publications)
  • Bernt-Erik Sæther (9 co-publications)
  • Peter S. Ranke (7 co-publications)
  • Thor Harald Ringsby (7 co-publications)
  • Henrik Jensen (7 co-publications)

Wright's recent papers include:

  • "Criteria for acceptable studies of animal personality and behavioural syndromes," 2020, published in Ethology
  • "Pathways to social evolution and their evolutionary feedbacks," 2020, published in Evolution
  • "Generalists versus specialists in fluctuating environments: a bet-hedging perspective," 2020, published in Oikos
  • "Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation," 2023, published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Variation in generation time reveals density regulation as an important driver of pace of life in a bird metapopulation," 2021, published in Ecology Letters

Wright frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Ethology (4 publications)
  • Ecology and Evolution (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • Evolution (3 publications)
  • Journal of Animal Ecology (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Anahita J. N. Kazem;Denis Réale;Jonathan Wright

  • A simple method for distinguishing within- versus between-subject effects using mixed models

    Martijn van de Pol;Jonathan Wright

  • Behavioural syndromes differ predictably between 12 populations of three‐spined stickleback

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Jonathan Wright;Anahita J. N. Kazem;Dawn K. Thomas

  • Large–scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier

    Christiaan Both;Aleksandr V. Artemyev;Bert Blaauw;Richard J. Cowie

  • Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality

    Denis Réale;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Anahita J. N. Kazem;Jonathan Wright

  • Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change

    Carlos A. Botero;Carlos A. Botero;Franjo J. Weissing;Jonathan Wright;Dustin R. Rubenstein

  • Manipulation of sex differences in parental care

    Jonathan Wright;Innes Cuthill

  • Individual experience and evolutionary history of predation affect expression of heritable variation in fish personality and morphology

    Niels J Dingemanse;Fons Van der Plas;Jonathan Wright;Denis Réale

  • The biology hidden inside residual within-individual phenotypic variation

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

  • The evolution of begging : competition, cooperation, and communication

    Jonathan Wright;Marty L. Leonard

  • The evolution of parental and alloparental effort in cooperatively breeding groups: when should helpers pay to stay?

    Hanna Kokko;Rufus A. Johnstone;J. Wright

  • Quality vs. quantity: energetic and nutritional trade-offs in parental provisioning strategies

    J. Wright;C. Both;P.A. Cotton;D. Bryant

  • The Evolution of Begging

    Jonathan Wright;Marty L. Leonard

  • Food Allocation among Nestling Starlings: Sibling Competition and the Scope of Parental Choice

    Alex Kacelnik;Peter A. Cotton;Liam Stirling;Jonathan Wright

  • Recent changes in body weight and wing length among some British passerine birds

    Yoram Yom‐Tov;Shlomith Yom‐Tov;Jonathan Wright;Chris J. R. Thorne

  • Chick Begging Strategies in Relation to Brood Hierarchies and Hatching Asynchrony

    Peter A. Cotton;Jonathan Wright;Alex Kacelnik

  • Biparental care: short-term manipulation of partner contribution and brood size in the starling, Sturnus vulgaris

    Jonathan Wright;Innes Cuthill

  • A method for exploring the structure of behavioural syndromes to allow formal comparison within and between data sets

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Ned A. Dochtermann;Jonathan Wright

  • Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet: how temperature differentially affects seasonal changes in pied flycatcher diet depending on habitat variation

    Claudia Burger;Eugen Belskii;Tapio Eeva;Toni Laaksonen

  • Life-history evolution under fluctuating density-dependent selection and the adaptive alignment of pace-of-life syndromes.

    Jonathan Wright;Geir Hysing Bolstad;Yimen Araya-Ajoy;Niels J. Dingemanse

  • Begging in Nestling Birds

    Amber E. Budden;Jonathan Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peter A. Cotton
Peter A. Cotton Plymouth University
Andrew F. Russell
Andrew F. Russell University of Exeter
Yoram Yom-Tov
Yoram Yom-Tov Tel Aviv University
Christiaan Both
Christiaan Both University of Groningen
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Bernt-Erik Sæther
Bernt-Erik Sæther Norwegian University of Science and Technology
David F. Westneat
David F. Westneat University of Kentucky
Innes C. Cuthill
Innes C. Cuthill University of Bristol
Bart Kempenaers
Bart Kempenaers Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

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