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59
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875

Overview

Linda A. Whittingham is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the United States. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Environmental Science, with specific focus on Ecology and related subfields. These subfields include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's work centers on topics such as Avian ecology and behavior, Plant and animal studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal and Plant Science Education, Plant Reproductive Biology, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Several of the recent papers by Whittingham illustrate the scope of their research, including:

  • "Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America," published in 2023 in Ecology
  • "Molecular parallelism in signaling function across different sexually selected ornaments in a warbler," published in 2022 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Sexually selected differences in warbler plumage are related to a putative inversion on the Z chromosome," published in 2024 in Molecular Ecology
  • "2020 Elliott Coues Award to André Dhondt," published in 2020 in The Auk
  • "2020 AOS William Brewster Memorial Awards to Regina Macedo," published in 2020 in The Auk

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Whittingham include:

  • Susan M. Haig
  • Keith A. Hobson
  • Brett K. Sandercock
  • Reed Bowman
  • Peter O. Dunn

Whittingham's publications are commonly found in specialized journals with a focus on ornithology and ecology. The main publication venues where their work appears include:

  • The Auk
  • Ecology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Ornithological Applications

Best Publications

  • MATING SYSTEMS, SPERM COMPETITION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN BIRDS

    Peter O. Dunn;Linda A. Whittingham;Trevor E. Pitcher

  • Sex-biased hatching order and adaptive population divergence in a passerine bird.

    Alexander V. Badyaev;Alexander V. Badyaev;Geoffrey E. Hill;Michelle L. Beck;Anne A. Dervan

  • Sexual selection explains Rensch's rule of allometry for sexual size dimorphism

    James Dale;Peter O Dunn;Jordi Figuerola;Terje Lislevand

  • CONFIDENCE OF PATERNITY AND MALE PARENTAL CARE

    Linda A. Whittingham;Peter D. Taylor;Raleigh J. Robertson

  • Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds

    Nathalie Seddon;Carlos A. Botero;Joseph A. Tobias;Peter O. Dunn

  • Maternal testosterone in tree swallow eggs varies with female aggression

    Linda A. Whittingham;Hubert Schwabl

  • A test of the mismatch hypothesis: How is timing of reproduction related to food abundance in an aerial insectivore?

    Peter O. Dunn;David W. Winkler;Linda A. Whittingham;Susan J. Hannon

  • Offspring sex ratios in tree swallows: females in better condition produce more sons

    Linda A. Whittingham;Peter O. Dunn

  • Sperm competition and the evolution of testes size in birds.

    T. E. Pitcher;P. O. Dunn;L. A. Whittingham

  • Effects of breeding density, synchrony, and experience on extrapair paternity in tree swallows

    Peter O. Dunn;Linda A. Whittingham;Jan T. Lifjeld;Raleigh J. Robertson

  • Phylogeny of swallows (Aves: Hirundinidae) estimated from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences.

    Frederick H. Sheldon;Linda A. Whittingham;Robert G. Moyle;Beth Slikas

  • Natural and sexual selection act on different axes of variation in avian plumage color.

    Peter O. Dunn;Jessica K. Armenta;Linda A. Whittingham

  • MHC variation is related to a sexually selected ornament, survival, and parasite resistance in common yellowthroats.

    Peter O. Dunn;Jennifer L. Bollmer;Corey R. Freeman-Gallant;Linda A. Whittingham

  • Relatedness, polyandry and extra-group paternity in the cooperatively-breeding white-browed scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis )

    Linda A. Whittingham;Peter O. Dunn;Robert D. Magrath

  • Confidence of paternity and male parental care: an experimental study in tree swallows

    Linda A. Whittingham;Peter O. Dunn;Raleigh J. Robertson

  • Short-term fluctuations in cellular immunity of tree swallows feeding nestlings.

    Jan T. Lifjeld;Peter O. Dunn;Linda A. Whittingham

  • Rapid loss of MHC class II variation in a bottlenecked population is explained by drift and loss of copy number variation.

    J. A. Eimes;J. L. Bollmer;L. A. Whittingham;J. A. Johnson

  • Subordinate males are more likely to help if unrelated to the breeding female in cooperatively breeding white-browed scrubwrens

    Robert D. Magrath;Linda A. Whittingham

  • Effects of extra-pair and within-pair reproductive success on the opportunity for selection in birds

    Linda A. Whittingham;Peter O. Dunn

  • The evolution of sexual size dimorphism in the house finch. III. Developmental basis.

    Alexander V. Badyaev;Linda A. Whittingham;Geoffrey E. Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter O. Dunn
Peter O. Dunn University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
David W. Winkler
David W. Winkler Cornell University
Raleigh J. Robertson
Raleigh J. Robertson Queen's University
Robert G. Clark
Robert G. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Russell D. Dawson
Russell D. Dawson University of Northern British Columbia
Keith A. Hobson
Keith A. Hobson University of Western Ontario
Alexander V. Badyaev
Alexander V. Badyaev University of Arizona
Dave Shutler
Dave Shutler Acadia University
Marty L. Leonard
Marty L. Leonard Dalhousie University
Brett K. Sandercock
Brett K. Sandercock Kansas State University

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