Avian Ecology Group —— Recent Publications

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  • Jiani Chen; Yuqi Zou; Yue-Hua Sun; Cate ten Carel; Problem-solving males become more attractive to female budgerigars, Science, 2019, 363(6423): 166-167
  • Yingqiang Lou, Yuqi Zou, Yun Fang, Yuehua Sun. 2023. Exploratory behavior is associated with the cognitive speed in male chestnut thrushes. Current Zoology: zoad055.
  • Pengfei Liu, Yingqiang Lou, Huw Lloyd, Yuehua Sun. 2023. Multiple field study approaches reveal the functions of female song and duets in a temperate songbird. Animal Behaviour, 206: 1-11.
  • Pengfei Liu, Yingqiang Lou, Jingxiao Yao, Linghui Wang, Anders Pape Møller, Yuehua Sun. 2023. Variation in bill surface area is associated with local climatic factors across populations of the plain laughingthrush. Ecology and Evolution, 13(9): e10535.
  • Yingqiang Lou, Lijun Chen, Qingshan Zhao, Anders Pape Møller, Yun Fang, Yuehua Sun. 2023. The signalling function of plumage colour traits in the Chestnut Thrush (Turdus rubrocanus). Ibis, 165(4): 1359-1367. 
  • Yingqiang Lou, Qingshan Zhao, Yunbiao Hu, Lijun Chen, Pengfei Liu, Yun Fang, Huw Lloyd, Yuehua Sun. 2023. Personality-dependent nest site selection and nest success during incubation in wild chestnut thrushes. iScience, 26(8): 107419.
  • Chunrong Mi, Kai Song, Liang Ma, Jiliang Xu, Baojun Sun, Yuehua Sun, Jianguo Liu, Weiguo Du. 2023. Optimizing protected areas to boost the conservation of key protected wildlife in China. The Innovation, 4(3): 100424.
  • Wen-Dong Xie, Zhi-Xin Wen, Kai Song, Bao-Cheng Guo, Yun Fang, Yue-Hua Sun. 2023. Global freshwater assessment of establishment risk of invasive Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) and risks to freshwater ecosystems in China. Zoological Research, 44(1): 90.
  • Xinhai Li; Ning Li; Baidu Li; Yuehua Sun; Erhu Gao; AbundanceR: A Novel Method for Estimating Wildlife Abundance Based on Distance Sampling and Species Distribution Models, Land, 2022, 11: 660
  • Xinhai Li, Huidong Tian, Zhengji Piao, Guiming Wang, Zhishu Xiao, Yuehua Sun, Erhu Gao, Marcel Holyoak, cameratrapR: An R package for estimating animal density using camera trapping data, Ecological Informatics, 2022, 69: 101597
  • Nan Lyu; Douhan Justin Yeh; Huw Lloyd; Yue-Hua Sun; The significant role of post-pairing male behavior on the evolution of male preferences and female traits, communications biology, 2022, 5(1):4
  • Kai Song; Bin Gao; Peter Halvarsson; Yun Fang; Siegfried Klaus; Ying-Xin Jiang; Jon E. Swenson; Zhi-Ming Han; Yue-Hua Sun; Jacob Höglund; Conservation genomics of sibling grouse in boreal forests reveals introgression and adaptive population differentiation in genes controlling epigenetic variation, Zoological Research, 2022, 43(2): 184-187
  • Kai Song; Bin Gao; Peter Halvarsson; Yun Fang; Siegfried Klaus; Ying-Xin Jiang; Jon E. Swenson; Yue-Hua Sun; Jacob Höglund; Demographic history and divergence of sibling grouse species inferred from whole genome sequencing reveal past effects of climate change, BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021, 21:194
  • Ying-Qiang Lou; Li-Jun Chen; Yun-Biao Hu; Jan Komdeur; Yue-Hua Sun; Nan Lyu; Animal personality can modulate sexual conflict over offspring provisioning, Animal Behaviour, 2021, 177: 91-97
  • Kai Song; Peter Halvarsson; Yun Fang; Jonathan Barnaby; Nickolai Germogenov; Yue-Hua Sun; Jacob Höglund; Genetic differentiation Sichuan jay (Perisoreus internigrans) and its sibling species Siberian jay (P. infaustus), Conservation Genetics, 2020, 21(2): 319-327