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PUBLICATIONS: ROB MAGRATH

• Platzen D, Magrath RD, Kondo J. 2006. From nestling calls to fledgling silence: adaptive timing of change in responseerences in response to aerial alarm calls. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B 273:2335-2342.

• Leavesley A, Magrath RD, 2005. Communicating about danger: urgency alarm calling in a bird.  Animal Behaviour 70: 365-373.(This material has been published in the above  journal, the only definitive repository of the content that has been certified and  accepted  after peer review. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. This material may not be copied or reposted without explicit  permission. For this and other articles go to http://www.idealibrary.com)

• Platzen D, Magrath RD. 2005. Adaptive differences in response to two types of parental alarm calls in altricial nestlings. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B 272:1101-1106.

• Crowley C, Magrath RD. 2004. Shields of offence: signalling competitive ability in the dusky moorhen, Gallinula tenebrosa. Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 463-474.

• Gardner JL, Magrath RD, Olsen P. 2004. Speckled warblers break cooperative rules: 
  absence of helping in a group-living member of the Paradlotidae.  Animal Behaviour 67:719-728.
  (This material has been published in the above  journal, the only definitive repository of the content that has been certified and
   accepted  after peer review. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
  This material may not be copied or reposted without explicit  permission. For this and other articles go to http://www.idealibrary.com)

• Platzen D, Magrath RD. 2004. Parental alarm calls suppress nestling vocalizations.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B 271:1271-1276.

• Detto T. Zeil J, Magrath RD. 2004. Sex, size and colour in a semi-terrestrial crab, Heloecius cordiformis
  (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 302: 1-15.

• Gardner JL, Magrath RD, Kokko H. 2003. Stepping stones of life: natal dispersal in the group-living but
  noncooperative speckled warbler Animal Behaviour 66:521-530 (This material has been published in the above
   journal, the only definitive repository of the content that has been certified and accepted  after peer review. Copyright and all rights
  therein are retained by The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. This material may not be copied or reposted without explicit
   permission. For this and other articles go to http://www.idealibrary.com)

• Maurer G, Magrath RD, Leonard ML, Horn AG, Donnelly C. 2003. Begging to differ: scrubwren nestlings beg to alarm calls and vocalize when parents are absent. Animal Behaviour 65: 1045-1055 (This material has been published in the above journal, the only definitive repository of the content that has been certified and accepted after peer review. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. This material may not be copied or reposted without explicit permission. For this and other articles go to http://www.idealibrary.com)

• Leedman AW, Magrath RD. 2003. Long-term brood division and exclusive parental care in a cooperatively breeding passerine. Animal Behaviour 65:1093-1108 (This material has been published in the above journal, the only definitive repository of the content that has been certified and accepted after peer review. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. This material may not be copied or reposted without explicit permission. For this and other articles go to http://www.idealibrary.com

• Magrath RD. 2001. Group breeding dramatically increases reproductive success of yearling but not older female scrubwrens: a model for cooperatively breeding birds?  Journal of  Animal Ecology 70: 370-385.

• Nicholls JA, Double MC, Rowell DM, Magrath RD. 2001. The evolution of cooperative and pair breeding in thornbills Acanthiza (Pardalotidae). Journal of Avian Biology 31: 165-176.

• Magrath RD, Heinsohn RG. 2000. Reproductive skew in birds: models, problems and prospects. Journal of Avian Biology 31: 247-258. 

• Krebs EA Magrath RD. 2000. Food allocation in crimson rosella broods: parents differ in their responses to chick hunger. Animal Behaviour 59: 739-751. (This material has been published in the above journal, the only definitive repository of the content that has been certified and accepted after peer review. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. This material may not be copied or reposted without explicit permission. For this and other articles go to http://www.idealibrary.com)

• Magrath RD, Leedman AW, Gardner JL, et al. 2000. Life in the slow lane: Reproductive life history of the White-browed Scrubwren, an Australian endemic. Auk 117: 479-489.

• Hall ML, Magrath RD. 2000. Duetting and mate-guarding in Australian magpie-larks (Grallina cyanoleuca)  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 47: 180-187.  (The original publication is available on LINK at http://link.springer.de. Reproduced with permission of Springer-Verlag)

• Magrath RD, Whittingham LA. 1997. Subordinate males are more likely to help if unrelated to the breeding female in cooperatively breeding white-browed scrubwrens Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41: 185-192. (The original publication is available on LINK at http://link.springer.de. Reproduced with permission of Springer-Verlag)

• Whittingham LA, Dunn PO, Magrath RD. 1997. Relatedness, polyandry and extra-group paternity in the cooperatively-breeding white-browed scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 40: 261-270. (The original publication is available on LINK at http://link.springer.de. Reproduced with permission of Springer-Verlag)

• Loiterton SJ, Magrath RD. 1996. Substrate type affects partial prey consumption by larvae of the antlion Myrmeleon acer (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 44: 589-597.

• Desrochers A, Magrath RD. 1993. Age-specific fecundity in european blackbirds (Turdus merula) - individual and population trends. Auk 110: 255-263.

• Desrochers A, Magrath RD. 1993. Environmental predictability and remating in European blackbirds. Behavioral Ecology 4: 271-275.

• Crick HQP, Gibbons DW, Magrath RD. 1993. Seasonal-changes in clutch size in British birds. Journal of  Animal Ecology 62: 263-273.

• Magrath RD. 1992. Roles of egg mass and incubation patter in establishment of hatching hierarchies in the blackbird (Turdus merula). Auk 109: 474-487.

• Magrath RD. 1992. The effect of egg mass on the growth and survival of blackbirds - a field experiment. Journal of Zoology 227: 639-653.

• Magrath RD. 1992. Seasonal-changes in egg-mass within and among clutches of birds - general explanations and a field-study of the blackbird Turdus merula. Ibis 134: 171-179.

• Magrath RD. 1991. Lack solution. Nature 353: 611-611.

• Magrath RD. 1991. Nestling weight and juvenile survival in the blackbird, Turdus merula. Journal of  Animal Ecology 60: 335-351.

• Magrath RD. 1990. Hatching asynchrony in altricial birds  Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 65: 587-622.

• Magrath RD. 1989. Hatching asynchrony and reproductive success in the blackbird. Nature 339: 536-538.

• Magrath RD. 1988. Cold tolerance of European blackbird embryos and nestlings. Condor 90: 958-959.

• Magrath RD. 1988. Hatching asynchrony in altricial birds - nest failure and adult survival. American Naturalist 131: 893-900.

• Magrath RD, Lill A. 1985. Age-related differences in behavior and ecology of crimson rosella, Platycercus elegans, during the non-breeding season. Australian Wildlife Research 12: 299-306