Penndorf, J.; Ewart, K. M.; Klump, B. C.; Martin, J. M.; Aplin, L. M.: Social network analysis reveals context-dependent kin relationships in wild sulphur-crested cockatoos Cacatua galerita. Journal of Animal Ecology 92 (1), pp. 171 - 182 (2023)
Smeele, S. Q.; Senar, J. C.; Aplin, L. M.; McElreath, M. B.: Evidence for vocal signatures and voice-prints in a wild parrot. Royal Society Open Science 10 (10), 230835 (2023)
Vistalli, S.; Jäger, T.; Aplin, L. M.; Wild, S.: Tits (Paridae sp.) use social information when locating and choosing nest lining material. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77 (1), 13 (2023)
Wild, S.; Alarcon-Nieto, G.; Chimento, M.; Aplin, L. M.: Manipulating actions: A selective two-option device for cognitive experiments in wild animals. Journal of Animal Ecology 92 (8), pp. 1509 - 1519 (2023)
Chimento, M.; Barrett, B. J.; Kandler, A.; Aplin, L. M.: Cultural diffusion dynamics depend on behavioural production rules. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1980), 20221001 (2022)
Gruber, T.; Chimento, M.; Aplin, L. M.; Biro, D.: Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 377 (1843), 20200308 (2022)
Klump, B. C.; Major, R. E.; Farine, D. R.; Martin, J. M.; Aplin, L. M.: Is bin-opening in cockatoos leading to an innovation arms race with humans? Current Biology 32 (17), pp. R910 - R911 (2022)
Smeele, S. Q.; Conde, D. A.; Baudisch, A.; Bruslund, S.; Iwaniuk, A.; Staerk, J.; Wright, T. F.; Young, A. M.; McElreath, M. B.; Aplin, L. M.: Coevolution of relative brain size and life expectancy in parrots. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1971), 20212397 (2022)
Wild, S.; Chimento, M.; McMahon, K.; Farine, D. R.; Sheldon, B. C.; Aplin, L. M.: Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 377 (1843), 20200307 (2022)
Aplin, L. M.; Major, R. E.; Davis, A.; Martin, J. M.: A citizen science approach reveals long-term social network structure in an urban parrot, Cacatua galerita. Journal of Animal Ecology 90 (1), pp. 222 - 232 (2021)
Brakes, P.; Carroll, E. L.; Dall, S. R. X.; Keith, S. A.; McGregor, P. K.; Mesnick, S. L.; Noad, M. J.; Rendell, L.; Robbins, M. M.; Rutz, C.et al.; Thornton, A.; Whiten, A.; Whiting, M. J.; Aplin, L. M.; Bearhop, S.; Ciucci, P.; Fishlock, V.; Ford, J. K. B.; Notarbartolo di Sciara, G.; Simmonds, M. P.; Spina, F.; Wade, P. R.; Whitehead, H.; Williams, J.; Garland, E. C.: A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288 (1949), 20202718 (2021)
Chimento, M.; Alarcon-Nieto, G.; Aplin, L. M.: Population turnover facilitates cultural selection for efficiency in birds. Current Biology 31 (11), pp. 2477 - 2483.e3 (2021)
Klump, B. C.; Martin, J. M.; Wild, S.; Hörsch, J. K.; Major, R. E.; Aplin, L. M.: Innovation and geographic spread of a complex foraging culture in an urban parrot. Science 272 (6553), pp. 456 - 460 (2021)
Cantor, M.; Aplin, L. M.; Farine, D. R.: A primer on the relationship between group size and group performance. Animal Behaviour 166, pp. 139 - 146 (2020)
Penndorf, J.; Aplin, L. M.: Environmental and life history factors, but not age, influence social learning about food: a meta-analysis. Animal Behaviour 167, pp. 161 - 176 (2020)
Brakes, P.; Dall, S. R. X.; Aplin, L. M.; Bearhop, S.; Carroll, E. L.; Ciucci, P.; Fishlock, V.; Ford, J. K. B.; Garland, E. C.; Keith, S. A.et al.; McGregor, P. K.; Mesnick, S. L.; Noad, M. J.; Notarbartolo di Sciara, G.; Robbins, M. M.; Simmonds, M. P.; Spina, F.; Thornton, A.; Wade, P. R.; Whiting, M. J.; Williams, J.; Rendell, L.; Whitehead, H.; Whiten, A.; Rutz, C.: Animal cultures matter for conservation. Science 363 (6431), pp. 1032 - 1034 (2019)
Farine, D. R.; Aplin, L. M.: Spurious inference when comparing networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (34), pp. 16674 - 16675 (2019)
Firth, J. A.; Cole, E. F.; Ioannou, C. C.; Quinn, J. L.; Aplin, L. M.; Culina, A.; McMahon, K.; Sheldon, B. C.: Personality shapes pair bonding in a wild bird social system. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2 (11), pp. 1696 - 1699 (2018)
Pruitt, J. N.; Berdahl, A.; Riehl, C.; Pinter-Wollman, N.; Moeller, H. V.; Pringle, E. G.; Aplin, L. M.; Robinson, E. J. H.; Grilli, J.; Yeh, P.et al.; Savage, V. M.; Price, M. H.; Garland, J.; Gilby, I. C.; Crofoot, M. C.; Doering, G. N.; Hobson, E. A.: Social tipping points in animal societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1887), 20181282 (2018)
Smaldino, P. E.; Aplin, L. M.; Farine, D. R.: Sigmoidal acquisition curves are good indicators of conformist transmission. Scientific Reports 8, 14015 (2018)
Somveille, M.; Firth, J. A.; Aplin, L. M.; Farine, D. R.; Sheldon, B. C.; Thompson, R. N.: Movement and conformity interact to establish local behavioural traditions in animal populations. PLoS Computational Biology 14 (12), e1006647 (2018)
Aplin, L. M.; Morand-Ferron, J.: Stable producer–scrounger dynamics in wild birds: Sociability and learning speed covary with scrounging behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1852), 20162872 (2017)
Aplin, L. M.; Sheldon, B. C.; McElreath, R.: Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (30), pp. 7830 - 7837 (2017)
Firth, J. A.; Voelkl, B.; Crates, R. A.; Aplin, L. M.; Biro, D.; Croft, D. P.; Sheldon, B. C.: Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1854), 20170299 (2017)
Johnson, K. V.-A.; Aplin, L. M.; Cole, E. F.; Farine, D. R.; Firth, J. A.; Patrick, S. C.; Sheldon, B. C.: Male great tits assort by personality during the breeding season. Animal Behaviour 128, pp. 21 - 32 (2017)
Jones, T. B.; Aplin, L. M.; Devost, I.; Morand-Ferron, J.: Individual and ecological determinants of social information transmission in the wild. Animal Behaviour 129, pp. 93 - 101 (2017)
Shultz, T. R.; Montrey, M.; Aplin, L. M.: Modelling the spread of innovation in wild birds. Interface: Journal of the Royal Society 14 (131), 20170215 (2017)
Aplin, L. M.: Understanding the multiple factors governing social learning and the diffusion of innovations. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 12, pp. 59 - 65 (2016)
Crates, R. A.; Firth, J. A.; Farine, D. R.; Garroway, C. J.; Kidd, L. R.; Aplin, L. M.; Radersma, R.; Milligan, N. D.; Voelkl, B.; Culina, A.et al.; Verhelst, B. L.; Hinde, C. A.; Sheldon, B. C.: Individual variation in winter supplementary food consumption and its consequences for reproduction in wild birds. Journal of Avian Biology 47 (5), pp. 678 - 689 (2016)
Aplin, L. M.; Farine, D. R.; Morand-Ferron, J.; Cockburn, A.; Thornton, A.; Sheldon, B. C.: Counting conformity: Evaluating the units of information in frequency-dependent social learning. Animal Behaviour 110, pp. E5 - E8 (2015)
Aplin, L. M.; Farine, D. R.; Morand-Ferron, J.; Cockburn, A.; Thornton, A.; Sheldon, B. C.: Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds. Nature 518 (7540), pp. 538 - 541 (2015)
Aplin, L. M.; Firth, J. A.; Farine, D. R.; Voelkl, B.; Crates, R. A.; Culina, A.; Garroway, C. J.; Hinde, C. A.; Kidd, L. R.; Psorakis, I.et al.; Milligan, N. D.; Radersma, R.; Verhelst, B. L.; Sheldon, B. C.: Consistent individual differences in the social phenotypes of wild great tits, Parus major. Animal Behaviour 108, pp. 117 - 127 (2015)
Farine, D. R.; Aplin, L. M.; Sheldon, B. C.; Hoppitt, W.: Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1803), 20142804 (2015)
Farine, D. R.; Firth, J. A.; Aplin, L. M.; Crates, R. A.; Culina, A.; Garroway, C. J.; Hinde, C. A.; Kidd, L. R.; Milligan, N. D.; Psorakis, I.et al.; Radersma, R.; Verhelst, B.; Voelkl, B.; Sheldon, B. C.: The role of social and ecological processes in structuring animal populations: A case study from automated tracking of wild birds. Royal Society Open Science 2 (4), 150057 (2015)
Morand-Ferron, J.; Hamblin, S.; Cole, E. F.; Aplin, L. M.; Quinn, J. L.: Taking the operant paradigm into the field: Associative learning in wild great tits. PLoS One 10 (8), e0133821 (2015)
Psorakis, I.; Voelkl, B.; Garroway, C. J.; Radersma, R.; Aplin, L. M.; Crates, R. A.; Culina, A.; Farine, D. R.; Firth, J. A.; Hinde, C. A.et al.; Kidd, L. R.; Milligan, N. D.; Roberts, S. J.; Verhelst, B.; Sheldon, B. C.: Inferring social structure from temporal data. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69 (5), pp. 857 - 866 (2015)
Aplin, L. M.; Farine, D. R.; Mann, R. P.; Sheldon, B. C.: Individual-level personality influences social foraging and collective behaviour in wild birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1789), 20141016 (2014)
Farine, D. R.; Aplin, L. M.; Garroway, C. J.; Mann, R. P.; Sheldon, B. C.: Collective decision making and social interaction rules in mixed-species flocks of songbirds. Animal Behaviour 95, pp. 173 - 182 (2014)
Aplin, L. M.; Farine, D. R.; Morand-Ferron, J.; Cole, E. F.; Cockburn, A.; Sheldon, B. C.: Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major). Ecology Letters 16 (11), pp. 1365 - 1372 (2013)
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