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Background
In 2007-8 I completed my Honours at the ANU
with my main supervisor as
Patricia Backwell,
with co-supervision by Michael Jennions. I started a PhD in 2008,
again with my main supervisor as Patricia Backwell and co-supervision by Michael Jennions. We
spent three
months in 2008 doing fieldwork on fiddler crabs in Mozambique, followed up
by two months more of fieldwork in Darwin. I will update
this page shortly...I am now back in Darwin for the 2009 field season.
Publications
7.
Milner RNC, Booksmythe I, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY.
2010. The battle of the sexes? Territory
acquisition and defence in male and female fiddler crabs.
Animal
Behaviour (in press)
6. Milner RNC, Detto T, Jennions MD, Backwell
PRY. 2010. Experimental evidence for a seasonal shift in the
strength of a female mating preference.
Behavioural
Ecology
(in press)
5. Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2010.
Safe sex: male-female coalitions and pre-copulatory mate guarding in a
fiddler crab.
Biology Letters
(in press)
4. Booksmythe I, Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2010.
How do weaponless male fiddler crabs avoid aggression?
Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology
PDF at
FirstCite Online
(in press)
3.
Milner RNC, Detto T,
Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2010. Hunting and predation
in a fiddler crab.
Journal of Ethology 28: 171-173
[PDF]
2.
Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2008. Does the environmental
context of a signaling male influence his attractiveness?
Animal
Behaviour 76:1565-1570
[PDF]
1. Reaney LT, Milner RNC, Detto T,
Backwell PRY. 2008. The effects of claw regeneration on territory
ownership and mating success in the fiddler crab, Uca mjoebergi.
Animal
Behaviour 75: 1473-1478
[PDF]
Contact
Email:
richard.milner@anu.edu.au
Photos from Inhaca (Mozambique, 2008) Click
thumbnails for full size pictures
Ignore: The files below
are just sound files to run a robotic crab!
Expt1a (synchro fast)
Expt1b (synchro medium)
Expt2a (fast vs medium)
Expt2b (fast vs slow)
Expt2c (medium vs slow)
EXpt31 (strong leader)
EXpt3b (not needed?)
Hopefully the id's
correspond, but obviously look and see. You owe me a LOT of beer. |
