Sheldon, Ben - University of Oxford - Department of Zoology

研究领域

I have broad interests in evolution, ecology and behaviour in wild populations, with a particular focus on understanding the causes and consequences of individual variation. My empirical work uses wild bird populations as a model, particularly exploiting insights drawn from long-term population studies such as that of the great tit in Wytham Woods. My research group typically consists of 4-5 postdocs and associated fellows, and 5-6 graduate students. Current research themes include: (1) Social ecology of wild bird populations; (2) Adaptation and constraint in phenotypic plasticity; (3) Ecology and epidemiology of avian malaria; (4) Ecological genetics of life-history characters. We use a combination of field observations and experiments, quantitative and molecular genetic analysis, to understand these problems.

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Firth, J.A. & Sheldon, B.C. 2016. Social carry-over effects underpin trans-seasonally linked structure in a wild bird population. Ecology Letters, in press. Firth, J.A., Voelkl, B., Farine, D.R. & Sheldon, B.C. 2015. Experimental evidence that social relationships shape individual foraging behaviour. Current Biology 25, 3138-3143. Hinks, A.E., Cole, E.F., Fannon, K., Wilkin, T.A., Nakagawa, S. & Sheldon, B.C. 2015. Scale-dependent phenological synchrony between songbirds and their caterpillar food source. Amer. Nat. 186, 84-97. Aplin, L.M., Farine, D.R., Morand-Ferron, J., Cockburn, A., Thornton, A. & Sheldon, B.C. 2015. Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds. Nature 518, 538-541. Vedder, O., Bouwhuis, S. & Sheldon, B.C. 2013. Quantitative assessment of the importance of phenotypic plasticity in adaptation to climate change in wild bird populations. PLOS Biology 11, e1001605. Aplin, L.M., Farine, D.R., Morand-Ferron, J. & Sheldon, B.C. 2012. Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds. Proc R Soc B 279, 4199-4205.