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36
Citations
4634
World Ranking
7172
National Ranking
725

Overview

Peter A. Cotton is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several main fields, including Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these fields, their work delves into subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Health Informatics, and Safety Research.

The scientist's primary research topics include Plant and animal studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Academic integrity and plagiarism, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms.

Frequent publication venues for Peter A. Cotton include:

  • Functional Ecology
  • Innovations in Education and Teaching International
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Animal Behaviour

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated on three or more publications are:

  • Jesper Sonne
  • Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni
  • Pietro K. Maruyama
  • Andréa Cardoso Araujo
  • Aline G. Coelho

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Peter A. Cotton include:

  • Chatting and cheating: Ensuring academic integrity in the era of ChatGPT, 2023, published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International
  • Ecological mechanisms explaining interactions within plant-hummingbird networks: morphological matching increases towards lower latitudes, 2020, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The influence of biogeographical and evolutionary histories on morphological trait-matching and resource specialization in mutualistic hummingbird-plant networks, 2021, published in Functional Ecology
  • The role of insularity: Plants have few ornithophilous traits but are visited by morphologically more distinct hummingbirds in the Caribbean islands, 2025, published in Functional Ecology
  • Transgenerational plasticity research: Challenges and opportunities, 2025, published in Functional Ecology

Best Publications

  • Avian migration phenology and global climate change

    Peter A. Cotton

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

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

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

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

  • Specialization in Plant-Hummingbird Networks Is Associated with Species Richness, Contemporary Precipitation and Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity

    Bo Dalsgaard;Bo Dalsgaard;Bo Dalsgaard;Else Magård;Jon Fjeldså;Ana M. Martín González

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

    Peter A. Cotton;Jonathan Wright;Alex Kacelnik

  • Chick begging as a signal: are nestlings honest?

    Peter A. Cotton;Alex Kacelnik;Jonathan Wright

  • Using Observational Methods to Research the Student Experience

    Debby R.E. Cotton;Alison Stokes;Peter A. Cotton

  • The macroecology of phylogenetically structured hummingbird–plant networks

    Ana M. Martín González;Bo Dalsgaard;David Nogués-Bravo;Catherine H. Graham

  • Effects of habitat complexity on the diversity and abundance of macrofauna colonising artificial kelp holdfasts

    Alison Hauser;Martin J. Attrill;Peter A. Cotton

  • Cue association and antipredator behaviour in a pulmonate snail, Lymnaea stagnalis

    Sarah Dalesman;Simon D. Rundle;Ross A. Coleman;Pete A. Cotton

  • TRAIT COMPENSATION IN MARINE GASTROPODS: SHELL SHAPE, AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR, AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PREDATION

    Peter A. Cotton;Simon D. Rundle;Kathryn E. Smith

  • Seasonal resource tracking by Amazonian hummingbirds

    Peter A. Cotton

  • Habitat selection by song thrushes in stable and declining farmland populations

    Will J. Peach;Matthew Denny;Pete A. Cotton;Ian F. Hill

  • Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks

    Thais B. Zanata;Thais B. Zanata;Bo Dalsgaard;Fernando C. Passos;Peter A. Cotton

  • The evolution of begging: Signaling and sibling competition

    Miguel A. Rodríguez-Gironés;Peter A. Cotton;Alex Kacelnik

  • Coevolution in an Amazonian hummingbird‐plant community

    Peter A. Cotton

  • Experimentally induced sex differences in parental care: an effect of certainty of paternity?

    Jonathan Wright;Peter A. Cotton

  • Understanding the gender and ethnicity attainment gap in UK higher education

    D.R.E. Cotton;M. Joyner;R. George;P.A. Cotton

  • Ecological mechanisms explaining interactions within plant-hummingbird networks: Morphological matching increases towards lower latitudes

    Jesper Sonne;Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni;Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni;Pietro K. Maruyama;Pietro K. Maruyama;Andréa C. Araujo

  • Predator regime influences innate anti‐predator behaviour in the freshwater gastropod Lymnaea stagnalis

    Sarah Dalesman;Simon D. Rundle;Peter A. Cotton

  • The Behavior and Interactions of Birds Visiting Erythrina fusca Flowers in the Colombian Amazon1

    Peter A. Cotton

  • Consistent crustaceans: the identification of stable behavioural syndromes in hermit crabs

    Sophie L. Mowles;Peter A. Cotton;Mark Briffa

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Bo Dalsgaard
Bo Dalsgaard University of Copenhagen
Marlies Sazima
Marlies Sazima State University of Campinas
Jonathan Wright
Jonathan Wright Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Simon D. Rundle
Simon D. Rundle Plymouth University
Matthias Schleuning
Matthias Schleuning Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Stefan Abrahamczyk
Stefan Abrahamczyk University of Bonn
Paulo Eugênio Oliveira
Paulo Eugênio Oliveira Federal University of Uberlândia
Juan Francisco Ornelas
Juan Francisco Ornelas Instituto de Ecología
Allan Timmermann
Allan Timmermann University of California, San Diego

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