Dr Robert Thomas
Click here to see all publications
Link to ScopusTM Database
Selected Publications
Thomas, RJ; King, TA; Forshaw, HE; Marples, NM; Speed, M & Cable, J (2010) The response of fish to novel prey: evidence that dietary conservatism is not restricted to birds Behavioral Ecology in press
Marples , N.M. , Quinlan, M., Thomas, R.J. & Kelly, D.J. (2007) Deactivation of dietary wariness through experience of novel food. Behavioural Ecology 18 P.803-810
Thomas, R.J. , Székely, T., Powell, R. & Cuthill, I.C (2006) Eye size, foraging strategy and the timing of foraging in shorebirds. Functional Ecology, 20, 157-165.
Marples , N.M. , Kelly, D.J. & Thomas, R.J. (2005) The evolution of warning colouration is not paradoxical. Evolution, 59, 933-940.
Thomas, R.J. , Bartlett, L., Marples, N.M., Kelly, D.J. & Cuthill, I.C. (2004) Prey selection by wild birds can allow novel and conspicuous colour morphs to spread in prey populations. Oikos, 106 285-294.
Thomas, R.J. , Cuthill, I.C., Goldsmith, A.R., Cosgrove, D.F., Lidgate, H.C. & Burdett Proctor, S.L. (2003) The trade-off between singing and mass-gain in a daytime-singing bird: the European robin. Behaviour , 140, 387-404.
Thomas, R.J. , Székely, T, Cuthill, I.C., Harper, D.G.C., Newson, S.E., Frayling, T.D., & Wallis, P.D. (2002) Eye size in birds and the timing of song at dawn. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 269, 831-837
Thomas, R.J. (2002) The costs of singing in nightingales. Animal Behaviour, 63, 959-966.
Thomas, R.J. & Cuthill, I.C. (2002) Body mass regulation and the daily singing routines of European robins. Animal Behaviour 63, 285-295.
Lindholm, A.K. & Thomas, R.J. (2000) Differences between populations of reed warblers in defences against brood parasitism. Behaviour 137, 25-42.