Joah Madden: Publications

Refereed papers
Non-academic communications

• Madden, J.R. & Davies, N.B. 2006. A host-race difference in begging calls of nestling cuckoos Cuculus canorus develops through experience and increases host provisioning. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B: 273: 2343-235.
  
  
• Endler, J.A., Westcott, D.A., Madden, J.R. & Robson, T. (In press) Animal visual systems and colour patterns: form and function in the evolution of multiple traits. Evolution.
  
  
• Madden, J. R. 2006 Interpopulation differences exhibited by Spotted Bowerbirds Chlamydera
  maculata across a suite of male traits and female preferences. Ibis 148: 425-435.
  
  
• Madden, J.R., Kilner, R.M. & Davies, N.B. (2005). Nestling responses to adult food and alarm calls: 2. Cowbird and red-winged blackbirds raised by eastern phoebe hosts. Animal Behaviour 70: 619-627.
  
  
• Madden, J.R., Kilner, R.M. & Davies, N.B. (2005). Nestling responses to adult food and alarm calls: 1. Species specific responses in two cowbird hosts. Animal Behaviour 70: 629-637.
  
  
• Davies, N.B., Madden, J.R. & Butchart, S.H.M. (2004). Learning fine-tunes a specific response of nestlings to the parental alarms of their own species. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London Series B 271: 2297-2304.
  
  
• Kilner, R.M., Madden, J.R. & Hauber, M.E. (2004). Brood parasitic cowbird nestlings use host young to procure parental resources. Science 305, 877-879.
  
  
• Madden, J.R., Lowe, T.J., Fuller, H.V., Dasmahapatra, K. & Coe R.L. (2004). Local traditions of bower decoration by spotted bowerbirds in a single population. Animal Behaviour 68, 559-565. Download PDF
  
  
• Madden, J.R., Lowe, T. J., Fuller, H. V., Coe R. L., Dasmahapatra, K., Amos, W. & Jury, F. (2004). Neighbouring male spotted bowerbirds are not related, but do maraud each other. Animal Behaviour 68, 551-558. Download PDF
  
  
• Madden, J.R. & Balmford, A. (2004). Spotted bowerbirds do not prefer rare or costly bower decorations. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 55, 589-595. Download PDF
  
  
• Madden, J.R., Endler, J.A. & Jury, F. (2004). Morpogological signals of sex and status in spotted bowerbirds. Emu 104, 21-30. Download PDF
  
  
• Madden, J.R. & Tanner, K. (2003). Preferences for coloured bower decorations can be explained in a non-sexual context. Animal Behaviour 65, 1077-1083. Download PDF
  
  
• Jenkins, M., Green, R.E. & Madden, J. (2003). The Challenge of Measuring Global Change in Wild Nature: Are Things Getting Better or Worse? Conservation Biology 17, 20-23. Download PDF
  
  
• Madden, J.R. (2003). Bower decorations are good predictors of mating success in the spotted bowerbird. Behavioural. Ecology and Sociobiology 53, 269-277. Download PDF
  
  
• Madden, J.R. (2003). Male spotted bowerbirds preferentially choose, arrange and proffer objects that are good predictors of mating success. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 53, 263-268. Download PDF
  
  
• Balmford, A., Bruner, A., Cooper, P., Costanza, R., Farber, S., Green, R.E., Jenkins, M., Jefferiss, P., Jessamy, V., Madden, J.R., Munro, K., Myers, N., Naeem, S., Paavola, J., Rayment, M., Rosendo, S., Roughgarden, J., Trumper, K., & Turner, R.K. 2002. Economic reasons for conserving wild nature. Science 297, 950-953.
  
  
• Miles, A.J. & Madden, J.R. (2002). Bower location by the spotted bowerbird Chlamydera maculata. Emu 102, 187-193. Download PDF
  
  
• Madden, J.R. (2002). Bower decorations attract females but provoke other male spotted bowerbirds – bower owners resolve this trade off. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London Series B 269, 1347-1352. Download PDF
  
  
• Madden, J. (2001). Sex, bowers and brains. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London Series B 268, 833-838. Download PDF