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STUART SHARP LEVERHULME- & ISAAC NEWTON
TRUST-FUNDED POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
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Cooperative
breeding, life history and demography in vertebrates
Tel: 01223 336673
Fax: 01223 336676
Email: sps44 @ cam.ac.uk
Research
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My research
uses a
combination of field experiments, genetic analyses and long-term data
in order
to answer questions about the evolution of cooperative breeding.
Previously,
this has included studies of acoustic communication and kin
recognition, and the relationship
between dispersal,
population structure and kin-selected cooperation. Through
this work,
I have also developed an interest in refining ways of measuring and
studying
dispersal more generally. More recently, my research has focused
on senescence in cooperative breeding systems, and I am interested in
how kin selection and sociality may influence patterns of ageing.
Publications
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17.
Sharp SP, M Simeoni, A McGowan K-B Nam
& BJ Hatchwell
(2011). Patterns of recruitment, relatedness and cooperative breeding
in two populations. Animal Behaviour
(in press).
16.
Nam K-B, M Simeoni, SP Sharp & BJ Hatchwell
(2010). Kinship affects investment by helpers in a cooperatively
breeding bird. Proc. R. Soc. B.
277: 3299-3306.
15. Sharp SP & TH Clutton-Brock
(2010). Reproductive senescence in a cooperatively breeding mammal. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:
176-183.
14. Christmas SE, WJ Halton, K
Brides & SP Sharp
(2010). Predominantly northward dispersal of grey herons Ardea cinerea from a heronry in
Greater Manchester, UK. Ringing
& Migration 25: 52-55.
13. Sharp SP (2009). Bird ringing as
a tool for behavioural studies. Ringing
& Migration 24: 213-219.
12. Evans
KL, KJ Gaston, AC Frantz, SP Sharp,
A
McGowan, M Simeoni, J Parkecke, T Burke & BJ
Hatchwell (2009). Independent colonisation of multiple urban centres by
a forest bird species. Proc.
R. Soc. B 276:2403-2410.
11.
Hatchwell BJ, SP
Sharp, M Simeoni & A McGowan
(2009). Factors influencing overnight loss of body mass in the communal
roosts of a social bird. Functional
Ecology 23:367-372.
10. Evans
KL, KJ Gaston, SP Sharp,
A
McGowan, M Simeoni & BJ
Hatchwell (2009). Effects of urbanisation on disease prevalence and age
structure in blackbird Turdus merula
populations. Oikos 774-782.
9. Evans
KL, KJ Gaston, SP Sharp, A
McGowan & BJ
Hatchwell (2009). The effect of urbanisation on avian morphology and
latitudinal gradients in body size. Oikos
118:251-259.
8. Sharp SP, M Simeoni & BJ Hatchwell (2008).
Dispersal of sibling
coalitions
promotes helping
among immigrants in a cooperatively breeding bird. Proc. R. Soc. B 275: 2125-2130.
7. Sharp SP, MB Baker, JD
Hadfield, M Simeoni & BJ Hatchwell (2008). Natal dispersal and
recruitment
in a social bird. Oikos 117: 1371-1379.
6. McGowan A, SP Sharp & BJ
Hatchwell (2006). Competition for position in the communal roosts of
long-tailed tits. Animal Behaviour
72: 1035-1043.
5. Hatchwell BJ & SP Sharp
(2006). The role of kinship in the cooperative breeding system of
long-tailed
tits. Advances in the Study of Behaviour
36: 355-395.
4. Sharp SP & BJ Hatchwell
(2006). Development of family-specific contact calls in the long-tailed
tit Aegithalos caudatus. Ibis 148:
649-656.
3. Sharp SP & BJ Hatchwell
(2005). Individuality in the contact calls of cooperatively breeding
long-tailed tits. Behaviour 142:
1559-1575.
2. Sharp SP, A McGowan, MJ Wood
& BJ Hatchwell (2005). Learned kin recognition cues in a social
bird. Nature 434: 1127-1130.
1. McGowan A, SP Sharp & BJ
Hatchwell (2004). The structure and function of nests of long-tailed
tits Aegithalos caudatus. Functional
Ecology 18: 578-583.
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