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assistant positions will be advertised from time to time.
Field assistants
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Students interested in conducting postgraduate research
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current opportunities.
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Staff,
Students & Associates
Honorary Research Associate
Activities and research interests
Dr Amanda Ridley was awarded a PhD degree from the University
of Cambridge following her research on the causes and
consequences of helping behaviour in the cooperatively breeding
Arabian Babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) in Israel. She was
then awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by Newnham College,
Cambridge. During her time there, she established the Pied
Babbler Research Project in South Africa. Amanda then spent four
years at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute as a Postdoctoral
Research Fellow. She has recently moved to a position as
Research Fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia,
but remains an Honorary Research Associate at the FitzPatrick
Institute. Amanda still spends about half her year in South
Africa, actively conducting research at the Pied Babbler
Research Project study site. Her main interests lie in sexual
selection, the causes and consequences of helping behaviour,
interspecific interactions and communication, kin recognition,
group dynamics and life-history strategies. There are now a
number of academics and students conducting research with Mandy
at the Pied Babbler Research Project. Amanda's research
interests are based primarily in behavioural and evolutionary
ecology, with particular reference to cooperatively breeding
species.
Research Programmes
Cooperative Breeding and Sociality in Birds (including Pied Babbler Research Project)
Current students
Doctoral
David Humphries: (Macquarie University): Mechanisms and
consequences of social recognition in the cooperatively breeding
Pied Babbler (Supervisors: Mandy Ridley, Simon Griffith & Matthew
Bell)
Recent peer-reviewed
publications
Mzumara, T.I., Hockey, P.A.R. & Ridley, A.R.
(in press).
Re-assessment of the conservation status of Malawi’s
‘Endangered’ Yellow-throated Apalis Apalis flavigularis. Bird Conservation International IP. IF 1.138
Golabek, K.A., Ridley, A.R. &
Radford, A.N. (in press). Food availability affects strength of seasonal
territorial behaviour in a cooperatively breeding bird. Animal Behaviour IP.
IF 3.1
Ridley, A.R. 2012. Invading
together: the benefits of coalition dispersal in a cooperative bird.
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 66:77-83. IF 2.6
Ridley, A.R. & Thompson, A.M.
2012. The effect of Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus parasitism on the
body mass and survival of young in a new host species. Ibis
154:195–199.
IF 2.295
Hockey, P.A.R., Sirami, C., Ridley, A.R., Midgley, G.F. &
Babiker, H.A. 2011. Interrogating recent range changes in
South African birds: confounding signals from land use and
climate change present a challenge for attribution.
Diversity and Distributions 17:254-261. IF
4.248
Hollén, L.I.,
Bell, M.B.V., Russell, A., Niven, F., Ridley, A.R. & Radford,
A.N. 2011. Calling by Concluding Sentinels: Coordinating
Cooperation or Revealing Risk? Plos One 6(10): e25010. IF 4.411
Hollén, L.I., Bell, M.B.V., Wade, H.M.,
Rose, R., Russell, A., Niven, F., Ridley, A.R. & Radford, A.N. 2011.
Ecological conditions influence sentinel decisions. Animal Behaviour
82:1435-1441.
IF 3.1
Nelson-Flower, M.J., Hockey, P.A.R., O'Ryan, C., Raihani,
N.J., du Plessis, M.A. & Ridley, A.R. 2011. Monogamous
dominant pairs monopolize reproduction in the cooperatively
breeding pied babbler. Behavioural Ecology
22:559-565. IF 2.926
Radford, A.N., Bell, M.B.V., Hollén,L.I. & Ridley, A.R.
2011. Singing for your supper: sentinel calling by
kleptoparasites can mitigate the cost to victims.
Evolution 65-3: 900–906. IF 5.659
Ridley, A.R.
& Thompson, A.M. 2011. Heterospecific egg destruction by
Wattled Starlings
and the impact on Pied Babbler reproductive success.
Ostrich 82:201-205. IF 0.338
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