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Recent Refereed Journal Publications

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2008  
  • Cassey P, Ewen JG, Blackburn TM, Hauber ME, Vorobyev M, Marshall NJ (2008). Maternal investment of yolk carotenoids is not related to eggshell color variation in European thrushes. Naturwissenschaften 95: 713-721. [pdf]
  • Wei, L., Han, N., Zhang, L., Helgen, K.M., Parsons, S., Zhou, S., Zhang, S. (2008). Wing morphology, echolocation calls, diet and emergence time of black-bearded tomb bats (Taphozous melanopogon, Emballonuridae) from south-west China. ACTA Chiropterologica, 10(1): 51-59. [pdf]
  • Corfield, J., Gillman, L., Parsons, S. (2008). Long distance vocalisations, sex differences and duetting in the Brown Kiwi (Apteryx mantelli). A descriptive study of a ratite call. AUK 125: 326-335. [pdf]
  • Daniel C, Millar CD, Ismar SMH, Stephenson B, Hauber ME (2008). Evaluating molecular and behavioural sexing methods for the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator). Australian Journal of Zoology 55: 377-382. [pdf]
  • Jennings, N., Parsons, S., Pocock, M.J.O. (2008). Human vs. machine: identification of bat species from their echolocation calls by humans and by artificial neural networks. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 86(5): 371-377 10.1139/z08-009 [pdf]
  • Tonra CM, Hauber ME, Heath SK, Johnson MD (2008) Ecological correlates and sex differences in early development of a generalist brood parasite. Auk 125: 205-213. [pdf]
  • Corfield, J.R., Wild, J.M., Cowan, B.R., Parsons, S., Kubke, M.F. (2008). MRI of post-mortem specimens of endangered species for comparative brain anatomy. Nature Protocols, 3(4): 597-605. [pdf]
  • Fraser EA, Hauber ME (2008) Higher call rates of morepork, Ninox novaeseelandiae, at sites inside an area with ongoing brodifacoum poisoning compared with matched non-managed sites. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 35: 1-7 (with cover photo). [pdf]
  • Corfield JR, Wild JM, Hauber ME, Parsons S, Kubke MF (2008) Evolution of brain size in the Palaeognath lineage, with an emphasis on New Zealand ratites. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 71: 87-99. [pdf]
  • Hauber ME, Moskat C (2008) Shared parental care is costly for nestlings of common cuckoos and their great reed warbler hosts. Behavioral Ecology 19: 79-86. [pdf]
2007  
  • Allen, S., Constantine, R., Bejder, L., Waples, K. & Harcourt, R. (In press). Can’t sleep, can’t eat - let’s split: Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin responses to tour boats in Port Stephens, Australia. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management.
  • Allen, S., Samuels, A., Constantine, R. & Bejder, L. (In press). Dolphin and whale watching around Australia: Is it 'Ecotourism'? Tourism in Marine Environments.
  • Anderson MG, Hauber ME (2007) A recognition-free mechanism for reliable rejection of brood parasites. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 22: 283-286. [pdf]
  • Battley PT, Hauber ME (2007) Beauty only partly in the eye of the beholder. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 62-63. [pdf]
  • Constantine, R., Russell, K., Gibbs, N., Childerhouse, S. & Baker, C.S. 2007. Photo-identification of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in New Zealand waters and their migratory connections to breeding grounds of Oceania. Marine Mammal Science, 23: 715-720
  • Galbraith J, Sancha E, Maloney R, Hauber ME (2007) Alarm responses are maintained during captive rearing in chicks of endangered kaki. Animal Conservation 10: 103-109. [pdf]
  • Guilbert, J.M., Walker. M.M., Greif, S., Parsons, S. (2007). Evidence of homing following translocation of long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) at Grand Canyon Cave, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 34: 239-246. [pdf]
  • Hauber ME (2007) Fame, fortune, and fitness at the Academy Awards. Journal of Ethology 25: 201-204. [pdf]
  • Hauber ME, Cassey P, Woolley SMN, Theunissen FE (2007) Neurophysiological response selectivity for conspecific songs over synthetic sounds in the auditory forebrain of non-singing female songbirds. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 193: 765-774. [pdf]
  • Hauber ME, Kilner RM (2007) Who mimics whom? Communication, co-evolution, and chick mimicry in parasitic finches. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 497-503. [pdf]
  • Hauber ME, Woolley SMN, Theunissen FE (2007). Experience-dependence of neural responses to social versus isolate conspecific songs in the forebrain of female Zebra Finches. Journal of Ornithology 148 (Suppl 2): S231-S239. [pdf]
  • Hoover JP, Hauber ME (2007) Individual patterns of habitat and nest-site use by hosts promote transgenerational transmission of avian brood parasitism status. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 1208-1214. [pdf]
  • Martin, G.R., Wilson, K-J., Wild, J.M., Parsons, S. Kubke, F. Corfield, J. (2007). Kiwi forego vision in the guidance of their nocturnal activities. PLoS ONE 2(2): e198. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000198. [pdf]
  • Moskat C, Hauber ME (2007) Conflict between egg recognition and egg rejection decisions in common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) hosts. Animal Cognition 10: 377-386. [pdf]
  • Rayner MJ, Clout MN, Brunton DH, Imber M, Stamp RK, Hauber ME (2007) Predictive habitat modelling for the population census of a burrowing seabird: a study of the endangered Cook's petrel. Biological Conservation 138: 235-247. [pdf]
  • Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Clout MN (2007) Breeding habitat of the Cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii) on Little Barrier Island (Hauturu), New Zealand: implications for the conservation of an island endemic. Emu 107: 59-68. [pdf]
  • Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Imber MJ, Stamp RK, Clout MN (2007) Spatial heterogeneity of mesopredator release within an oceanic island system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 20862-20865. [pdf]
  • Ruffell, J., Sedgeley, J., Parsons, S. (2007). Assessing the suitability of Kapiti Island to host a translocated population of lesser short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 34: 219-226. [pdf]
  • Safran RJ, Hauber ME (2007) Dispatch/Evolutionary Biology: Variation isn't always sexy. Current Biology 17: R368-R370. [pdf]
  • Tang, Z.H., Sheng, L.X., Parsons, S., Cao, M., Liang, B., Zhang- S.Y. (2007). Fruit-feeding behaviour and use of olfactory cues by the fruit bat Rousettus leschenaulti: an experimental study. ACTA Theriologica, 52(3): 285-290. [pdf]
  • Tang, Z.H., Sheng, L., Parsons, S., Cao, M., Liang, B., Zhang, S. (2007). Temporal and spatial patterns of seed dispersal of Cynopterus sphinx on Musa acuminata. ACTA Chirpoterologica, 9(1): 229-236. [pdf]
  • Wang, Y., Pan, Y., Parsons, S., Walker, M., Zhang, S. (2007). Bats respond to polarity of a magnetic field. Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 274: 2901-2905. [pdf]
  • Yeh PJ, Hauber ME, Price TD (2007) Alternative nesting behaviours following colonisation of a novel environment by a passerine bird. Oikos 116: 1473-1480. [pdf]
  • Zhang, L.B., Liang, B., Parsons, S., Wei, L., Zhang, S.Y. (2007). Morphology, echolocation and foraging behaviour in two sympatric sibling bats species of bat (Tylonycteris pachypus and T. robustula) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Journal of Zoology (London), 271: 344-351. [pdf]
2006  
  • Cassey P, Ewen JG, Karadas F, Hauber ME (2006) Repeatability of laboratory measurements for maternally derived yolk carotenoid concentrations in bird eggs. Australian Journal of Zoology 54: 381-384. [pdf]
  • Li, G., Jones, G., Rossiter, S.J., Chen, S-F., Parsons, S., Zhang, S. (2006). Phylogenetics of small horseshoe bats from east Asia based on mitochondrial DNA sequence variation. Journal of Mammalogy, 87(6): 1234-1240. [pdf]
  • Jones, G., Parsons, S., Zhang, S., Stadelmann, B., Benda, P., Ruedi, M. (2006). Echolocation calls, wingshape, and phylogenetic diagnosis of the endemic Chinese bat Myotis pequinius. ACTA Chiropterologica 8: 451-463. [pdf]
  • Hauber ME (2006) A future cost of misdirected parental care for brood parasitic young? Folia Zoologica 55: 367-374. [pdf]
  • Hoover J, Yasukawa K, Hauber ME (2006) Spatial and temporal structure of avian brood parasitism affects the fitness benefits of egg ejection and nest abandonment. Animal Behaviour 72: 881-890. [pdf]
  • Hauber ME, Safran RJ (2006) Dispatch/Behavioural Ecology: Promiscuous fathers sire young that recognize true family. Current Biology 16: R797-R800. [pdf]
  • Shawkey MD, Hauber ME, Estep LK, Hill GE (2006) Evolutionary transitions and mechanisms of matte and iridescent plumage coloration in grackles and allies (Icteridae). Journal of the Royal Society Interface 3: 777-786. [pdf]
  • Moskat C, Barta Z, Hauber ME, Honza M (2006) High synchrony of egg laying between common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) and their great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) hosts. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 18: 159-167. [pdf]
  • Latif Q, Grenier JL, Heath S, Ballard G, Hauber ME (2006) First evidence of conspecific brood parasitism in Song Sparrows accompanied by egg ejection and discussion of methods sufficient to document these behaviors. Condor 108: 452-458. [pdf]
  • Hauber ME, Moskat C, Ban M (2006) Experimental shift in hosts’ acceptance threshold of inaccurate-mimic brood parasite eggs. Biology Letters 2: 177-180. [pdf]
  • Riskin, D.K., Parsons, S., Schutt, W.A., Carter, G.C., Hermanson, J.W. (2006). Terrestrial locomotion of the New Zealand short-tailed bats, Mystacina tuberculata, and the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209: 1726-1735. [pdf]
  • Servedio M, Hauber ME (2006) To eject or to abandon? Brood parasite virulence and host clutch sizes interact to influence the fitness payoffs of alternative rejection strategies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 1585-1594. The authors contributed equally to this work. [pdf]
  • Thabah, A., Rossiter, S.J., Kingston, T., Zhang, S., Parsons, S., Mya, K.M., Akbar, Z., Jones, G. (2006). Genetic divergence and echolocation call frequency in cryptic species of Hipposideros larvatus sensu lato (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) from the Indo-Malayan region. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 88(1): 119-130. [pdf]
2005  
  • Hauber ME, Lacey EA (2005) Bateman’s principle in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: the effects of non-breeding alloparents on variability of female and male reproductive success. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45: 903-914. [pdf]
  • Holderied, M.W., Korine, C., Fenton, M.B., Parsons, S., Robson, S., Jones, G. (2005). Echolocation call design and intensity in the aerial hawking bat Eptesicus bottae (Vespertilionidae) studied using stereo videogrammetry. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 1219-1287. [pdf]
  • Zhang, L., Jones, G., Parsons, S., Liang, B., Zhang, S. (2005). Development of vocalisations in the flat-headed bats, Tylonycteris pachypus and T. robustula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). ACTA Chiropterologica, 7(1): 91-99. [pdf]
2004  
  • Constantine, R., Brunton, D.H. & Dennis, T. (2004). Dolphin-watching tour boats change bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) behaviour. Biological Conservation, 117: 299-307.
  • Göth A, Hauber ME (2004) Ecological approaches to species recognition in birds through studies of model and non-model species. Annales Zoologici Fennici 41: 823-842. (Contribution to Special Issue on Recognition Systems: Starks PTB ed.) [pdf]
  • Hauber ME, Yeh PJ, Roberts JOL (2004) Patterns and coevolutionary consequences of repeated brood parasitism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: S317-S320. [pdf]
  • Kilner RM, Madden JR, Hauber ME (2004) Brood parasitic cowbird nestlings use host young to procure resources. Science 305: 877-879. [pdf]
  • Vaughan, N., Parsons, S., Barlow, K.E., Gannon, M.R. (2004). Echolocation calls and wing morphology of bats from the West Indies. ACTA Chiropterologica , 6(1): 75-90.
2003  
  • Boonman, A.M., Parsons, S., Jones, G. (2003). The effect of flight speed on ranging performance of bats using frequency modulated echolocation pulses. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(1): 617-628. [pdf]
  • Constantine, R., D.H. Brunton & C.S. Baker. 2003. Effects of tourism on behavioural ecology of bottlenose dolphins of northeastern New Zealand. Department of Conservation Science Internal Series 153. Department of Conservation, Wellington. pp 26.
  • Hauber ME, Ramsey CK (2003) Honesty in host-parasite communication signals: the case for begging by fledgling Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Journal of Avian Biology 34: 339-344. [pdf]
2002  
  • Garrigue, C., A. Aguayo, V.L.U. Amante-Helweg, C.S. Baker, S. Caballero, P. Clapham, R. Constantine, J. Denkinger, M. Donoghue, L. Flórez-González, J. Greaves, N. Hauser, C. Olavarria, C. Pairoa, H. Peckham & M. Poole. (2002). Movements of humpback whales in Oceania, South Pacific. Journal of Cetacean Research & Management, 4(3): 255-260.
  • Marimuthu, G., Emmanuvel Rajan, K., Sripathi, K., Parsons, S. and Jones, G. (2002). Effects of different surfaces on the perception of prey-generated noise by the Indian false vampire bat Megaderma lyra. ACTA Chiropterologica, 4(1): 25-32. [pdf]
  • Jones, G., Barabas, A., Elliot, W., Parsons, S. (2002). Female greater wax moths reduce sexual display behaviour in relation to the potential risk of predation by echolocating bats. Behavioural Ecology, 13(3): 375-380. [pdf]