Dr Catherine Sheard
Interdisciplinary Fellow
- About
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- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
I am an evolutionary biologist who studies how innovations in behaviour shape trait distributions across broad swaths of space and time, particularly in birds and mammals. I frequently collaborate with linguists and anthropologists to translate methods developed in biology and palaeobiology to the study of human language/cultural evolution.
My Google Scholar page can be found here and more information about my research can be found here.
Qualifications
- DPhil Zoology2016 - University of Oxford
- BS Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology2012 - Yale University
External Memberships
- Associate Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography
- Deputy Chair, BES Macro SIG
- Equality and Diversity Advisory Group Member, British Ecological Society
- Diversity Committee Member, American Society of Naturalists
- Research
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Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Biological and Environmental Sciences
Accepting PhDs - Publications
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Anthropogenic nest material use in a global sample of birds
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 93, no. 6, pp. 691-704Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology
American Naturalist, vol. 203, no. 6, pp. 629-643Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/729751
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Primate coloration and colour vision: a comparative approach
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 141, no. 3, pp. 435-455Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLimited ecological opportunity influences the tempo of morphological evolution in birds
Current Biology, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 661-669.e4Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNest traits for the world's birds
Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 206-214Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat
Ornithology, vol. 141, no. 1, ukad048Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNest architecture influences host use by avian brood parasites and is shaped by coevolutionary dynamics
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 291, no. 2014, 20231734Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1734
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The macroevolutionary dynamics of mammalian sexual size dimorphism
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 290, no. 2011Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBeak shape and nest material use in birds
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 378, no. 1884, 20220147Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0147
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22054/1/Sheard_etal_PTB_Beak_Shape_and_VOR.pdf
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Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 378, no. 1884, 20220148Contributions to Journals: Articles
