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78
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19891
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Overview

Tamás Székely is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom and has contributed significantly to research in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work primarily spans several interconnected fields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

The researcher's publication record includes a variety of topics centered on animal behavior and reproduction, avian ecology and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, and genetic diversity and population structure.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations are:

  • András Liker
  • Yang Liu
  • José O. Valdebenito
  • Naerhulan Halimubieke
  • Araxi O. Urrutia

Székely has published extensively in notable scientific outlets. Prominent venues where their work has appeared include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Evolution

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Székely cover various aspects of avian and mammalian biology as well as evolutionary studies:

  • "Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes," 2024, Nature
  • "Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics," 2020, Nature
  • "Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across wild mammals," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Animal migration to northern latitudes: environmental changes and increasing threats," 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations," 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Sex, size, and gender roles : evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism

    Daphne J Fairbairn;Wolf U Blanckenhorn;Tamás Székely

  • Sex, Size and Gender Roles

    Daphne J. Fairbairn;Wolf U. Blanckenhorn;Tamás Székely

  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

    Shaohong Feng;Josefin Stiller;Yuan Deng;Joel Armstrong;Joel Armstrong

  • Conflict between parents over care.

    Alasdair I. Houston;Tamás Székely;John M. McNamara

  • The influence of a hot environment on parental cooperation of a ground-nesting shorebird, the Kentish plover Charadrius alexandrinus

    Monif AlRashidi;András Kosztolányi;Clemens Küpper;Innes C Cuthill

  • SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN SHOREBIRDS, GULLS, AND ALCIDS: THE INFLUENCE OF SEXUAL AND NATURAL SELECTION

    Tamás Székely;John D. Reynolds;Jordi Figuerola

  • How is sexual conflict over parental care resolved? A meta-analysis

    Freya Harrison;Zoltán Barta;Innes C. Cuthill;Tamás Székely

  • Mortality costs of sexual selection and parental care in natural populations of birds

    András Liker;Tamás Székely

  • Sexual selection explains Rensch's rule of size dimorphism in shorebirds

    Tamás Székely;Robert P. Freckleton;John D. Reynolds

  • Big-brained birds survive better in nature.

    Daniel Sol;Tamás Székely;Tamás Székely;András Liker;Louis Lefebvre

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

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

  • Genetic similarity between mates and extra-pair parentage in three species of shorebirds

    Donald Blomqvist;Malte Andersson;Clemens Küpper;Innes C. Cuthill

  • Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across wild mammals

    Jean François Lemaître;Victor Ronget;Morgane Tidière;Dominique Allainé

  • Adult sex ratio variation: Implications for breeding system evolution

    T. Székely;T. Székely;F. J. Weissing;J. Komdeur

  • Successful conservation of global waterbird populations depends on effective governance

    Tatsuya Amano;Tamás Székely;Tamás Székely;Brody Sandel;Szabolcs Nagy

  • A framework for monitoring the status of populations: An example from wader populations in the East Asian–Australasian flyway

    Tatsuya Amano;Tamás Székely;Kazuo Koyama;Hitoha Amano

  • The evolution of sex roles in birds is related to adult sex ratio

    András Liker;Robert P. Freckleton;Tamás Székely;Tamás Székely

  • An Evolutionary Approach to Offspring Desertion in Birds

    Tamás Székely;James N. Webb;Alasdair I. Houston;John M. McNamara

  • A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny.

    Gavin H Thomas;Matthew A Wills;Tamás Székely

  • A Dynamic Game-theoretic Model of Parental Care

    John M Mcnamara;Tamás Székely;James N Webb;Alasdair I Houston

  • Social Behaviour: Genes, Ecology and Evolution

    Tamás Székely;Allen J. Moore;Jan Komdeur

  • Waterbirds around the world

    GH Thomas;RB Lanctot;T Székely

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Komdeur
Jan Komdeur University of Groningen
András Liker
András Liker University of Pannonia
Innes C. Cuthill
Innes C. Cuthill University of Bristol
Robert P. Freckleton
Robert P. Freckleton University of Sheffield
Allen J. Moore
Allen J. Moore University of Georgia
Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Richard B. Lanctot
Richard B. Lanctot United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Jordi Figuerola
Jordi Figuerola Spanish National Research Council
Zoltán Barta
Zoltán Barta University of Debrecen
Kevin Burrage
Kevin Burrage Queensland University of Technology

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